We estimate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health … insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most … paid employees, but not for the selfemployed, who usually buy private health insurance. Private health insurance …

This study examines the uneven effects of air pollution from maritime ports on physical and mental health across racial … traffic influences air pollution and human health. We find that one additional vessel in a port over a year leads to 3 …-related environmental regulation and show that the policy can help alleviate racial inequalities in health outcomes. …

technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Based on changes in … and service-oriented tasks across all workers, but exacerbates health inequality between cognitive and manual workers … manual workers’ subjective health and increase sick leave, while leaving cognitive workers unaffected. We provide evidence …

Consumers' health plan choices are highly persistent even though optimal plans change over time. This paper separates …

Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We … find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of …