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West-East convergence in the prevalence of illicit drugs : socioeconomics or culture?
Tauchmann, Harald (contributor) - 2008
In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the collapse of … the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By analyzing … individual data, we find that East-Germany largely caught up with West-Germany's ever-growing prevalence of illicit drugs within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003740307
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Regional differences in the efficiency of health production : an artefact of spatial dependence?
Felder, Stefan; Tauchmann, Harald - 2009
The inefficiency of health care provision presents a major health policy concern in Germany. In order to address the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850898
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Tobacco and alcohol: complements or substitutes? : a structural model approach
Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607477
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When outcome heterogeneously matters for selection : a generalized selection correction estimator
Reichert, Arndt; Tauchmann, Harald - 2012
The classical Heckman (1976, 1979) selection correction estimator (heckit) is misspecified and inconsistent if an interaction of the outcome variable and an explanatory variable matters for selection. To address this specification problem, a full information maximum likelihood estimator and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009669647
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Who opts out of the statuory health insurance? : a discrete time hazard model for Germany
Bünnings, Christian; Tauchmann, Harald - 2013
Die Koexistenz von gesetzlicher und privater Krankenversicherung in Deutschland ist Gegenstand intensiver öffentlicher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221894
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Heterogeneity in the intergenerational transmission of alcohol consumption : a quantile regression approach
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Tauchmann, Harald - 2010
This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children’s later consumption of alcohol - which is frequently found to be of positive sign - exhibits a certain pattern of heterogeneity. In particular, if this effect is more prominent in the upper tail than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966863
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Tobacco and Alcohol : Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach
Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - 2021
The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324830