In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover …, privately insured individuals are treated preferentially by doctors. In this article, I use subjective health data to examine … whether these superior features of private insurance actually transfer into better health. I focus on German adolescents who …

of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1 … data”) in order to disentangle the interplay between individual, societal and regional determinants on individuals’ health …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …

life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …

Income comparisons have been found to be important for individual health. However, the literature has so far looked … health. Relative deprivation and relative satisfaction indexes are used to summarise upward and downward comparisons. Panel … impact on health. These findings hold after correcting for unobserved heterogeneity and are robust to using quasi …

considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth …