In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits, the number of nights spent in a hospital and self-assessed health …

Workload and its physical and mental burden can have detrimental effects on individual health. As different jobs are … associated with specific patterns of health development, occupational selection of socioeconomic groups can be attributed to … health differences in society. Despite a long economic literature that has established native-migrant differences in …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative …-of-pocket medical costs, and perceived health. At its peak, doctor visits decreased by 30% and out-of-pocket medical spending decreased …-reported health and sleep quality, COVID–19 increased depressive symptoms by 4%. We argue that it is imperative to monitor COVID–19's …

strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been … ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are …-sectional units. Adjusting for only age and gender, we estimate an IHA of 0.3 indicating that about one third of a parent's health …

We estimate intergenerational health persistence in the United Kingdom using Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY), a … broad measure of health derived from the SF-12 Survey. We estimate that both the rank-rank slope and the intergenerational … health association (IHA) are 0.21. We use components of the SF-12 to create mental and physical health indices and find that …

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 insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …