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Does exposure to air pollution impact mental health? This paper uses administrative health insurance data to estimate … the long-term cumulative effects of air pollution exposure on mental health outcomes. For identification, we exploit the …. We find that LEZs reduce various air pollutants and improve the population's mental health measured by depression and …
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designated areas and have been shown to improve population health. Little is known about the effects of driving restriction … ausgewiesenen Gebieten abhalten und nachweislich die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung verbessern. Über die Auswirkungen von Fahrverboten …
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This article examines the impact of unemployment on social participation for Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find significant negative, robust and, for some activities, lasting effects of unemployment on social participation. Causality is established by focussing on plant...
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This paper uses concurrently and - for the first time - retrospectively reported life satisfaction from the 1984 to 1987 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the importance of different comparison standards for the empirical correlation of unemployment and subjective life...
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This paper uses concurrently and – for the first time – retrospectively reported life satisfaction from the 1984 to 1987 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the importance of different comparison standards for the empirical correlation of unemployment and subjective life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385730
We estimate the causal impact of school smoking bans in Germany on the propensity and intensity of smoking. Using representative longitudinal data, we use variation in state, year, age cohort, school track, and survey time for implementation of such smoking bans to identify the effects of...
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We evaluate a non-governmental housing microfinance intervention that attempts to improve housing conditions for low income populations by simultaneously offering them a labelled loan and non-financial technical support. Using household survey data from Kenya and Uganda, we first show evidence...
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In times of peak demand hospitals may fail to deliver the high standard of treatment quality that they are able to offer their patients at regular times. To assess the magnitude of these effects, this study analyzes the effects of low staff-to-patients ratios on patient outcomes empirically. We...
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The reliability of general self-rated health status is examined using the reform of the public health insurance system … causal impact of the program on self-assessed health and hence reveals the sensitivity of this subjective measure to a … intervention, the respondents in the treated group perceived their own health status as better than their hypothetical untreated …
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In 2003 the Government of Ghana established a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to improve health care access for … its purpose in the context of the Millennium Development Goals #4 and #5 which deal with the health of women and children … compare health outcomes of recent mothers who are enrolled in the NHIS with those who are not. Our findings suggest that NHIS …
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