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Life expectancy and parental education in Germany
Huebener, Mathias - 2019
This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985358
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Social inequality in the digital transformation: Risks and potentials of mobile health technologies for social inequalities in health
Sawert, Tim; Tuppat, Julia - 2020
potential associations between social inequality, mHealth usage and health satisfaction. Assuming that mHealth technologies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227039
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Measurement of Health, the Sensitivity of the Concentration Index, and Reporting Heterogeneity
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2009
of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self … indices. Moreover, with the use of SF12, a generic health measure, the inequality indicator is reduced by a factor of ten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600855
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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the "Right" Indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600917
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Unemployment and smoking: Causation, selection, or common cause? Evidence from longitudinal data
Schunck, Reinhard; Rogge, Benedikt G. - 2012
Background: This study investigates possible mechanisms that can explain the association between unemployment and smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288723
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Unemployment and Smoking: Causation, Selection, or Common Cause? Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Schunck, Reinhard; Rogge, Benedikt G. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
Background: This study investigates possible mechanisms that can explain the association between unemployment and smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896286
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Measurement of Health, the Sensitivity of the Concentration Index, and Reporting Heterogeneity
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self … indices. Moreover, with the use of SF12, a generic health measure, the inequality indicator is reduced by a factor of ten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018707
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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the "Right" Indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583479
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Punching up or punching down? How stereotyping the rich and the poor impacts redistributive preferences in Germany
Diermeier, Matthias; Fischer, Madeleine L.; Niehues, Judith - 2023
Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific societal groups as 'deserving' or 'undeserving'. The present analysis contributes to this scholarship in a twofold manner. First, it provides a holistic view on the beneficiaries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014292524
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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state: The case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332141