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An aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic that merits attention is its effects on marriage and childbirth. Although the direct fertility effects of peo- ple getting the virus may be minor, the impact of delayed marriages due to the first preventive lockdown, such as that imposed in Pakistan from March...
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Using officially registered weekly death data, we estimate a baseline count of excess deaths during 2020 in England and Wales. We break down this number by region, age, gender, place, and cause of death. Our results suggest that there were 82,428 excess deaths in 2020 after the pandemic onset....
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Die Pflegeversicherung steht unter finanziellem Druck: In den vergangenen Jahren wurden die Leistungen durch mehrere Reformen erheblich ausgeweitet. Die Leistungsausweitung zeigte sowohl bei der sozialen als auch bei der privaten Pflegeversicherung Folgen. Bei der sozialen Pflegeversicherung war...
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Die Leistungen der Pflegeversicherung wurden seit 2017 durch das zweite Pflegestärkungsgesetz ausgeweitet. Weitere Leistungsausweitungen werden diskutiert. Als Beitrag zur Finanzierung wurde ein Finanzausgleich zwischen der privaten und der sozialen Pflegeversicherung vorgeschlagen, um diese zu...
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Am 11.11.2020 veröffentliche Jens Spahn das Eckpunktepapier zur Reform der sozialen Pflegeversicherung. Die Autoren beleuchten die ordnungs- und verteilungspolitischen Implikationen vier zentraler Aspekte des Reformvorschlags: das Einfrieren des maximalen Eigenanteils bei der stationären...
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Nozick's "utility monster" - a being who is more efficient than other persons at transforming resources into well-being - is often regarded as deeply impossible, on the ground of the incapacity of a single person to have a life that is better than a large number of other lives. In this article,...
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Housing is a basic need and is intricately connected to a household's health and wellness. The current pandemic has exposed the housing vulnerability for certain subgroups of the population and further jeopardized these household's health and stability. Using the Household Pulse Survey launched...
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Physically attractive individuals experience a range of advantages in adulthood including higher earnings; yet, how attractiveness influences earlier consequential decisions is not well understood. This paper estimates the effect of attractiveness on engagement in risky behaviours in...
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This study investigates the income-happiness puzzle in China by examining the trends in happiness and economic growth over the past two decades. It is the first long-term study in China to utilize a consistent national representative survey in the new century. Using data from the Chinese General...
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