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Physicians and the Production of Health : Returns to Health Care During the Mortality Transition

Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health...

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Who and for How Long? An Empirical Analysis of the Consumers' Response to Red Meat Warning

Carrieri, Vincenzo; Principe, Francesco - 2021

the 2015 WHO's warning about the carcinogenic effect of red meat consumption. We use high-frequency data and implement a … difference-in-difference-in-differences model which exploits the seasonality in red meat consumption and the heterogeneity in … with higher levels of education correctly reduced red meat consumption and over a longer period. Our findings suggest that …

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Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life : Evidence from Eleven European Countries

Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele - 2011

With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios, retirement schemes, pensions and insurances, it becomes increasingly important to understand the determinants of cognitive ability among the elderly. Macro-economic recession and...

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Top‐Down vs. Bottom‐Up : The Long‐Term Impact of Government Ideology and Personal Experience on Values

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013

This paper studies the long‐term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40‐year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately...

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The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Weimar Germany

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Blum, Matthias; Hornung, Erik; … - 2023

How do health crises affect election results? We combine a panel of election results from 1893 1933 with spatial heterogeneity in excess mortality due to the 1918 Influenza to assess the pandemic's effect on voting behavior across German constituencies. Applying a dynamic...

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An Apple a Day? Adult Food Stamp Eligibility and Health Care Utilization Among Immigrants

East, Chloe - 2018

In this study, we document the effect of Food Stamp access on adult health care utilization. While Food Stamps is one of the largest safety net programs in the U.S. today, the universal nature of the program across geographic areas and over time limits the potential for quasi-experimental...

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The International Migration of Health Professionals

Grignon, Michel - 2012

Health workforce shortages in developed countries are perceived to be central drivers of health professionals' international migration, one ramification being negative impacts on developing nations' healthcare delivery. After a descriptive international overview, selected economic issues are...

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Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of Covid-19

Bargain, Olivier - 2020

While degraded trust and cohesion within a country are often shown to have large socioeconomic impacts, they can also have dramatic consequences when compliance is required for collective survival. We illustrate this point in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. Policy responses all over the...

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Copayments in the German Health System : Does it Work?

Augurzky, Boris - 2006

This paper examines the effect of copayments on doctor visits using the German health care reform of 2004 as a natural experiment. In January 2004, copayments of 10 euros for the first doctor visit in each quarter have been introduced for all adults in the statutory health insurance. Individuals...

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Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?

Costa-Font, Joan - 2017

Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer – such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential mechanism...

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