We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …

comparisons for health perception in the general population. The results suggest that upward comparisons are more important than …This paper investigates the role of relative comparisons in health status for individual health satisfaction. Previous … research stresses the importance of interdependencies in subjective well-being and health arising from positional preferences …

In 2004, the German Social Health Insurance introduced a co-payment for the first doctor visit in a calendar quarter. I … combine a structural model of health care demand and a difference-in-differences strategy to estimate the effect of that …

self-assessed health. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), difference-in-differences estimations provide … evidence for health improvements for the population at large. Health benefits from the secondhand smokefree environment are … equivalent to an increase in household income of approximately 30%. Further subgroup analyses show that health improvements are …

This paper estimates the effect of informal care provision on female caregiver's health. We use data from the German … care provision on mental health which fades out over time. Five years after care provision there are no significant effects … left. Both short- and medium-term effects on physical health aremuch smaller and insignificant throughout. …

A Dynamic Hurdle Model for Zero-Inflated Count Data: With an Application to Health Care UtilizationExcess zeros are …

This paper is a contribution to the second World Happiness Report. It makes five main points. 1. Mental health is the … biggest single predictor of life-satisfaction. This is so in the UK, Germany and Australia even if mental health is included … health does, and much more than unemployment and income do. Income explains 1% of the variance of life-satisfaction or less …

authorized medical facilities on referral from a physician. While health resort stays are prescribed to recover from general … treatment at health spas. In Germany, the Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) covers both forms of therapy if administered in … symptoms of poor health and are preventive in character, medical rehabilitation implies recovering from a specific illness or …