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Self-rated health and changes in self-rated health as predictors of mortality : first evidence from German panel data

Schwarze, Johannes; Andersen, Hanfried H.; Anger, Silke - 2000

Empirical evidence from several countries reveals that self-rated health is a valid predictor of mortality. So far, there have been no studies conducted for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) we confirm the relationship between self-rated health and mortality...

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Age-specific effects of early daycare on children's health

Barschkett, Mara - 2022

Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries, 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...

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Who are the chronic poor? : evidence on the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany

Biewen, Martin - 2003 - This version: 08 May 2002

Based on a multiple spells approach, this paper studies the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany. The results indicate that about one third of cross-sectional poverty in a given year is chronic. The characteristics that are most closely associated with long-term poverty are...

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International migration to Germany : estimation of a time-series model and inference in panel cointegration.

Brücker, Herbert; Siliverstovs, Boriss; Trübswetter, … - 2003

In this paper we study the determinants of international migration to Germany, 1967-2000. The empirical literature on … macro-economic migration functions usually explains migration flows by a set of explanatory variables such as the income … acknowledged as nonstationary, the standard model in the migration literature can only meet the requirements of modern non …

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Obesity and developmental functioning among children aged 2-4 years

Cawley, John H. (contributor); … - 2008

In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the developmental functioning of children at younger ages...

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Parental income and child health in Germany

Reinhold, Steffen; Jürges, Hendrik - 2009

We use newly available data from Germany to study the relationship between parental income and child health. We find a strong gradient between parental income and subjective child health as has been documented earlier in the US, Canada and the UK. The relationship in Germany is about as strong...

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Measurement of health, the sensitivity of the concentration index, and reporting heterogeneity

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2009

Using representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for 2006, we show that the magnitude of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure. The highest degree of inequality is found when...

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One last puff? : public smoking bans and smoking behavior

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2010

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing of state bans to identify the effect that...

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Income and longevity revisited : do high-earning women live longer?

Breyer, Friedrich; Marcus, Jan - 2010

The empirical relationship between income and longevity has been addressed by a large number of studies, but most were confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the loose relationship between own earnings and household...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009260329

The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...

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