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Tobacco and alcohol: complements or substitutes? : a structural model approach
Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607477
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137054
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Assessing differences in household needs : a comparison of approaches for the estimation of equivalence scales using German expenditure data
Dudel, Christian; Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Schmied, Julian - 2017
Equivalence scales are routinely applied to adjust the income of households of different size and composition. Because of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation of equivalence scales have been proposed. Until now, no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764530
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Broke, Ill, and obese : the effect of household debt on health
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2010
We analyze the effect of household indebtedness on different health outcomes using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1999–2009. To establish a causal effect, we rely on (a) fixed-effects methods, (b) a subsample of constantly employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008934933
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003740307
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Heterogeneity in the intergenerational transmission of alcohol consumption : a quantile regression approach
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Tauchmann, Harald - 2010
Das vorliegende Papier betrachtet den Zusammenhang des Trinkverhaltens von Eltern und dem späteren Alkoholkonsum ihrer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966863
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Communication problems? : the role of parent-child communication for the subsequent health behavior of adolescents
Avdic, Daniel; Büyükdurmus, Tugba - 2015
Alkoholkonsum und zu Gewichtsproblemen Jugendlicher weitaus komplexer. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519179
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Heterogeneity in marginal non-monetary returns to higher education
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2015
Betätigungen am Arbeitsplatz und Gesundheitsverhalten wie Rauchen oder Alkoholkonsum, wohingegen geistig anspruchsvollere … Deutschland in den 1950-90er Jahren sowie Variation in den BAföG-Freibeträgen. Diese Instrumente ermöglichen durch eine …
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Goodbye smokers' corner : health effects of school smoking bans
Pfeifer, Gregor; Reutter, Mirjam; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2017
Wir untersuchen die kausalen Auswirkungen des Rauchverbots an Schulen in Deutschland auf die Wahrscheinlichkeit zu … rauchen und die Anzahl gerauchter Zigaretten pro Tag. Um diese Effekte zu messen, verwenden wir einen repräsentativen … zehn Jahre nach Einführung der Verbote an Schulen die Wahrscheinlichkeit zu rauchen um 7-17 Prozent reduziert, während die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612562
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Health's kitchen : TV, edutainment and nutrition
Principe, Francesco; Carrieri, Vincenzo - 2020
Does media exposure affect health behaviours? And how? We exploit the idiosyncratic switchover to digital television across Italian regions which exogenously increased the number of free view national channels and we link this to high-frequency data on the supply of food-related contents on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405419