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Does stress shorten your life? : evidence from parental bereavement
Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2019
This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Using a flexible approach and allowing for timevarying treatment effects, I find no impact of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run. The effects are especially pronounced for men. I provide...
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Associations of childhood health and financial situation with quality of life after retirement : regional variation across Europe
Börnhorst, Claudia; Heger, Dörte; Mensen, Anne - 2019
Einkommens sowie der Gesundheit im Rentenalter als potenzielle Mediatoren in diesem Zusammenhang. Darüber hinaus vergleichen wir … Informationen über die Kindheit und Angaben zu Gesundheit, Bildungsniveau, finanzieller Situation und Lebensqualität im Alter sowie … fünf europäischen Regionen mit der finanziellen Situation sowie der Gesundheit im Kindesalter verbunden ist. Während sowohl …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998811
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Social status and public expectations : self-selection of high-skilled migrants
Lumpe, Christian; Lumpe, Claudia; Meckl, Jürgen - 2016
We analyze public expectations about migrants’ provision of work effort as a driving force in the self-selection process of high-skilled migrants. We adopt and extend Piketty’s (1998) theoretical framework of social status and work out how country-specific public expectations affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452707
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Do red herrings swim in circles? : controlling for the endogeneity of time to death
Felder, Stefan (contributor); Werblow, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
Studies on the effect of ageing on health care expenditures (HCE) have revealed the importance of controlling for time-to-death (TTD). These studies, however, are subject to possible endogeneity if HCE influences remaining life expectancy. This paper introduces a ten year observational period on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003767521
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The relationship between quality and hospital case volume : an empirical examination with German data
Hentschker, Corinna; Mennicken, Roman - 2012
This paper examines the effects of hospital case volume on quality of care on the example of intact abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and hip fracture (HIP). We conduct the analysis on patient level with multiple logistic regression analysis. Quality is measured with a binary variable which...
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How does heterogeneity shape the socioeconomic gradient in health satisfaction?
Jones, Andrew M. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003471672
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Broke, Ill, and obese : the effect of household debt on health
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2010
, mentaler Gesundheit und Fettleibigkeit. Wenn wir für unbeobachtbare Heterogenität und umgekehrte Kausalität kontrollieren … psychischer Gesundheit. Im Gegensatz dazu finden wir jedoch keinen kausalen Effekt auf Fettleibigkeit. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008934933
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Determinants of avoidable deaths from ischaemic heart diseases in East and West Germany
Schwierz, Christoph; Wübker, Ansgar - 2009
The objective of this paper is to identify selected forces of the decrease in the number of avoidable deaths from ischaemic heart diseases (IHD) inWest and East Germany from 1996 to 2004. Our main result reveals that the number of intracardiac catheter facilities,which are an important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861417
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Are you well prepared for long-term care? : assessing financial gaps in private German care provision
Keese, Matthias; Meng, Annika; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2010
The development of expenditure for care services is one of the most intensively debated topics in public. However, studies calculating financial provision gaps only focus on the macro-level implications for the compulsory care insurance. In contrast, this paper examines the individuals’...
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Does the quality of hospital treatment vary by days of the week?
Schwierz, Christoph; Augurzky, Boris; Wasem, Jürgen - 2009
This paper investigates the relationship between health outcomes and variations in staffing levels as approximated by admissions on weekdays versus admissions on weekends. Because days of admission are potentially endogenous, we instrument on emergency admissions only, which are reasonably...
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