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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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Who gets vaccinated? : cognitive and non-cognitive predictors of individual behavior in pandemics

Andor, Mark Andreas; Bauer, Thomas K.; Eßer, Jana; … - 2023

This study investigates the different cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics associated with individuals’ willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and their actual vaccination status. Our empirical analysis is based on data obtained from three survey waves of about 2,000 individuals...

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Tobacco and alcohol: complements or substitutes? : a structural model approach

Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - 2007

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Light cannabis and organized crime : evidence from (unintended) liberalization in Italy

Carrieri, Vincenzo; Madio, Leonardo; Principe, Francesco - 2018

The effect of marijuana liberalization on crime is object of a large interest by social scientists and policy-makers. However, due to the scarcity of relevant data, the displacement effect of liberalization on the supply of illegal drugs remained substantially unexplored. This paper exploits the...

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Inequalities in educational outcomes : how important is the family?

Bredtmann, Julia; Smith, Nina - 2016

importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey and register data for Denmark, our main aim … a third of the variation in educational achievement can be explained by family and community background. Our results … further reveal that parents' socio-economic background can account for a large part of the sibling correlation. Other family …

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Less social health insurance - more private supplementary insurance? : empirical evidence from Germany

Augurzky, Boris (contributor); Tauchmann, Harald (contributor) - 2008

This paper uses individual level data to analyze the effect of changes in the compulsory benefit package of the German statutory health insurance scheme on the demand for private supplementary insurance. In particular, we aim at measuring the effect of excluding dentures from the benefit package...

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Demand, selection and patient outcomes in German acute care hospitals

Schwierz, Christoph; Augurzky, Boris; Focke, Axel; … - 2008

In times of peak demand hospitals may fail to deliver the high standard of treatment quality that they are able to offer their patients at regular times. To assess the magnitude of these effects, this study analyzes the effects of low staff-to-patients ratios on patient outcomes empirically. We...

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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...

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Regional differences in the efficiency of health production : an artefact of spatial dependence?

Felder, Stefan; Tauchmann, Harald - 2009

The inefficiency of health care provision presents a major health policy concern in Germany. In order to address the issue of efficiency comprehensively - i.e. at the level of the entire system of health care provision rather than individual service providers - empirical analyses are often based...

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Much ado about nothing? : Smoking bans and Germany's hospitality industry

Kvasnicka, Michael; Tauchmann, Harald - 2010

Over the last years, public smoking bans have been introduced in most European countries. Unlike elsewhere, in Germany such bans were introduced at state level at different points in time, which provides important intra-country regional variation that can be exploited to identify the effects of...

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