presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with high rates of maternal … women increase their labour supply and that this holds within households. We provide additional evidence on stated gender …

-collected historical data on the number of livestock at the local level with microdata on eating habits, health outcomes, and food … individuals have a higher probability of being obese, having poor self-perceived health, and developing cancer. The effects are … consumption, and adult health. …

This article considers the complexity of ea rly employment life-courses focusing on the heterogeneity by gender and …

To insure policyholders against contemporaneous health expenditure shocks and future reclassification risk, long …-term health insurance constitutes an alternative to community-rated short-term contracts with an individual mandate. In this paper …, we study the German long-term health insurance (GLTHI) from a life-cycle perspective. The GLTHI is one of the few real …

, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early … daycare attendance on health has received little attention in the economic literature. In this study, I investigate the impact … of a large daycare expansion in Germany on children's age-specific mental and physical health outcomes. Based on a unique …