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The political economy of public investment when population is aging : a panel cointegration analysis

Jäger, Philipp; Schmidt, Torsten - 2015

aging on public investment. Moreover, the estimation of an error correction model reveals long-run Granger causality running … exclusively from aging to investment. Our results are robust to the inclusion of additional control variables typically considered …

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Pension incentives and labor supply : evidence from the introduction of universal old-age assistance in the UK

Giesecke, Matthias; Jäger, Philipp - 2020

In dieser Studie untersuchen wir wie das Arbeitsangebot und die gesellschaftliche Wohlfahrt auf die Einführung einer …

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Weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals : establishing a causal link

Reichert, Arndt R.; Tauchmann, Harald; Wübker, Ansgar - 2015

Obesity may not only be linked to undesirable health outcomes but also to limitations in sexual life. The present paper aims to assess whether there is a causal relationship between weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals. To address the endogeneity of weight loss that is...

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Can pensions save lives? : evidence from the introduction of old-age assistance in the UK

Jäger, Philipp - 2023

I study the impact of old-age assistance on mortality using the introduction of public pensions in the UK in 1909 as a quasi-natural experiment. Exploiting the newly created pension eligibility age through a difference-in-difference as well as an event-time design, I show that elderly mortality...

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Heterogeneous preferences, spousal interaction, and couples' time-use

Balleer, Almut; Merz, Monika; Papp, Tamás K. - 2024

Lohnveränderungen für die Zeitverwendung und das Arbeitsangebot von Paaren. Wir stellen ein Zeitverwendungsmodell auf, das wir anhand …

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In sickness and in health? : health shocks and relationship breakdown : empirical evidence from Germany

Bünnings, Christian; Hafner, Lucas; Reif, Simon; … - 2020

Germany. Results from various matching estimators indicate that adverse shocks to mental health substantially increase the …

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Wage bargaining and labor market policy with biased expectations

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2024

Recent research documents mounting evidence for sizable and persistent biases in individual labor market expectations. This paper incorporates subjective expectations into a general equilibrium labor market model and analytically studies the implications of biased expectations for wage...

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Bismarck in the bedroom? : pension reform and fertility : evidence 1870-2010

Jäger, Philipp - 2017

Rising public pension generosity has frequently been cited as one reason for the (persistently) declining fertility rates in many advanced economies. Despite the theoretical appeal, empirical evidence on the pension-fertility nexus is limited. To fill this gap, I study country-level fertility...

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Aging and real estate prices in Germany

Breidenbach, Philipp; Jäger, Philipp; Taruttis, Lisa - 2022

robust empirical evidence that population aging depresses real estate prices and rents. Using millions of individual real … have been up to 12% higher, if the population age distribution had been the same as in 2008. We show that population aging … demand for living space and live-cycle dissaving are driving our results. We predict that population aging will continue to …

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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...

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