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Are risk aversion and impatience related to cognitive ability?

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2009

This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...

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Explaining the body mass index gaps between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002 - 2012 : a decomposition analysis of socio-economic causes

Dang, Rui - 2015

In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed socioeconomic status from the part attributable to...

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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment

Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Pinger, Pia; … - 2018

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...

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The contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to longevity growth in Germany and France

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2010

-adjusted mortality rates of residents of Germany, using longitudinal, annual, state-level data during the period 2000-2007. The estimates …-adjusted cancer mortality rates of residents of France, using longitudinal, annual, cancer-site-level data during the period 2002 … mortality rates, and may have accounted for as much as half of the decline. …

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Bio-demographic and health aspects of ageing in the EU

Herce, José A.; Ahn, Namkee; Génova, Ricard; Pereira, … - 2003

, mortality, longevity, lifecourses and morbidity. Conventionally measured ageing can be caused by low fertility and longer lives … and EU countries have experienced both. We emphasise the considerable compression of mortality that has taken place and …

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Autarchy, market disintegration, and health : the mortality and nutritional crisis in Nazi Germany, 1933-1937

Baten, Jörg; Wagner, Andrea - 2002

We compare trends in mortality, nutritional status and food supply to other living standard indicators for the early … years of the Nazi period. We find that Germany experienced a substantial increase in mortality rates in most age groups in …

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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books

Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016

measures where available. The relationship with life expectancy is significant and positive. Infant mortality correlates …

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Pandemic meets pollution : poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? : selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido (contributor); Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor); … - 2008

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

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Assessment drives learning : the effect of central exit exams on curricular knowledge and mathematical literacy

Jürges, Hendrik; Schneider, Kerstin; Senkbeil, Martin; … - 2009

In this paper, we use data from the German PISA 2003 sample to study the effects of central exit examinations on student performance, student attitudes, and teacher behavior. Unlike earlier studies we use (i) a value-added measure to pin down the effect of central exit exams on learning in the...

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