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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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Nickel and dimed German style : the working poor in Germany

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2009

Using data from the German SOEP, this paper analyses whether there have been (a) any significant changes in poverty rates and poverty intensities before and after the Hartz IV reforms and (b) whether there have been observable changes in the effect of employment in reducing the threat or...

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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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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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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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The impact of demographic change on human capital accumulation

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009

This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West-German...

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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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EU structural funds and regional income convergence : a sobering experience

Breidenbach, Philipp; Mitze, Timo; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2016

The European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) are the prime instrument of EU regional policy. European policy makers place considerable hope into their growth stimulating funding measures to overcome current economic stagnation. Consequently, there is a strong need for credible evidence...

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