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Guthmuller, Sophie; Heger, Dörte; Hollenbach, Johannes; … - 2023

We investigate the short- and long-term effects of retirement on loneliness using panel data from the Survey of Health …, Aging, and Retirement in Europe. To estimate causal effects, we exploit differences in retirement eligibility rules across … retirement leads to a significant reduction in loneliness in the long run, although our results show no clear effect in the short …

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Effects of compulsory schooling on mortality : evidence from Sweden

Fischer, Martin; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2013

Theoretically, there are several reasons to expect education to have a positive effect on health, and empirical research suggests that education can be an important health determinant. However, it has not yet been established whether education and health are indeed causally-related, and the...

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Communication problems? : the role of parent-child communication for the subsequent health behavior of adolescents

Avdic, Daniel; Büyükdurmus, Tugba - 2015

We contribute to the literature on the determinants of socioeconomic health disparities by studying how the health behavior of adolescents may arise from the degree of communication between parent and child. Parent-child communication may function as a mediator between family background and...

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Assessing inequalities in preventive care use in Europe

Carrieri, Vincenzo; Wübker, Ansgar - 2012

This paper presents the first cross-country estimation of needs-adjusted income and education-related inequalities in the use of a whole set of preventive care treatments. Analysis is based on the first three waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) for individuals aged 50...

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Decomposing differences in health and inequality using quasi-objective health indices

Heger, Dörte - 2016

People in Canada and the U.S. often make claims regarding whose country has a better health system. Several researchers have attempted to address this question by analysing subjective health in the two countries, thus assuming a common definition of “good” health. Using data from the Joint...

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Does the letter matter (and for everyone)? : quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of home invitation on mammography uptake

Carrieri, Vincenzo; Wuebker, Ansgar - 2014

Retirement in Europe (SHARE) data. We find that home invitation increases mammography uptakes by almost 20 percentage points. At …

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Cream skimming by health care providers and inequality in health care access : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Werbeck, Anna; Wübker, Ansgar; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2020

Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected profitability. In the German two-tier system, outpatient reimbursement rates for both public and private insurance are centrally determined but are more than twice as high for the...

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Work and well-being of informal caregivers in Europe

Heger, Dörte - 2014

Informal caregivers provide valuable services to elderly persons with long-term care needs, but the consequences of caregiving on caregivers are not yet fully understood. This paper illustrates the interrelation between caregiving and caregivers’ labour force participation, cognitive ability,...

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One Last puff ? : Public smoking bans and smoking behavior

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2010

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany’s sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing of state bans to identify the effect...

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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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