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Associations of childhood health and financial situation with quality of life after retirement : regional variation across Europe

Börnhorst, Claudia; Heger, Dörte; Mensen, Anne - 2019

, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) with full information on childhood and later life measures of health, educational …

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Retirement and loneliness

Guthmuller, Sophie; Heger, Dörte; Hollenbach, Johannes; … - 2023

, Aging, and Retirement in Europe. To estimate causal effects, we exploit differences in retirement eligibility rules across … Fragebogendaten der Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe. Um einen kausalen Zusammenhang aufzuzeigen, nutzen wir die …

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Changes in morbidity over time : evidence from Europe

Heger, Dörte; Kolodziej, Ingo W. K. - 2016

The elderly are the main beneficiaries of recent gains in life expectancy in the EU. Whether the additional life time is spent in good or in poor health will drastically influence the development of health care costs as morbidity status rather than age per se determines an individual’s need...

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Work and well-being of informal caregivers in Europe

Heger, Dörte - 2014

Informal caregivers provide valuable services to elderly persons with long-term care needs, but the consequences of caregiving on caregivers are not yet fully understood. This paper illustrates the interrelation between caregiving and caregivers’ labour force participation, cognitive ability,...

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Care choices in Europe : to each according to his needs?

Heger, Dörte; Korfhage, Thorben - 2016

Growing long-term care (LTC) needs represent a major challenge for our ageing societies. Understanding how utilization patterns of different types of care are influenced by LTC policies or changes in the population composition such as age patterns or health can provide helpful insight on how to...

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Does the negative effect of caregiving on work persist over time?

Heger, Dörte; Korfhage, Thorben - 2017

kann. Zusätzlich zu kurzfristigen Effekten der Pflegetätigkeit auf das Arbeitsangebot der Pflegenden sind außerdem mittel …

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Aging and real estate prices in Germany

Breidenbach, Philipp; Jäger, Philipp; Taruttis, Lisa - 2022

robust empirical evidence that population aging depresses real estate prices and rents. Using millions of individual real … have been up to 12% higher, if the population age distribution had been the same as in 2008. We show that population aging … demand for living space and live-cycle dissaving are driving our results. We predict that population aging will continue to …

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EU structural funds and regional income convergence : a sobering experience

Breidenbach, Philipp; Mitze, Timo; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2016

The European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) are the prime instrument of EU regional policy. European policy makers place considerable hope into their growth stimulating funding measures to overcome current economic stagnation. Consequently, there is a strong need for credible evidence...

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The perils of returning to school : new insights into the seasonality of youth suicides

Chandler, Vincent; Heger, Dörte; Wuckel, Christiane - 2019

Taking advantage of temporal and geographical variations in the timing of school holidays in Germany, this paper finds that school holidays cause an 19 percent (0.03 percentage points) decrease in the probability of youth suicide. This effect is constant across different types of holidays (fall,...

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Economic integration and growth at the margin : a space-time incremental impact analysis

Mitze, Timo; Breidenbach, Philipp - 2018

We use the case of EU enlargement in 2004 to investigate the impact of economic integration on regional income growth. Being particularly interested in studying the effects ‘at the margin’, we track the relative performance of regions adjacent to both sides of the integration border...

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