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Industrial robots, workers' safety, and health

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - 2020

This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries using data from the United States (US) and Germany. Our empirical analyses, based on establishment-level data for the US, suggest that a one standard deviation increase in robot exposure reduces...

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Early childhood environment, breastfeeding and the formation of preferences

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2016

formation. We start by presenting evidence showing that breastfeeding duration is a valid measure of the quality of early … breastfeeding duration is associated with higher levels of patience and altruism as well as a lower willingness to take risk …. We can further rule out that the results are purely driven by nutritional effects of breastfeeding. Altogether, our …

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Parental leave benefits and breastfeeding in Germany: Effects of the 2007 reform

Kottwitz, Anita; Oppermann, Anja; Spieß, Christa Katharina - 2014

While the health benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and children are well known, breastfeeding may make it … the old system. The current paper investigates whether this reform of parental leave impacted breastfeeding initiation and … 2012. Three breastfeeding measures are exploited 1) breastfeeding at birth or no breastfeeding initiation; 2) breastfeeding …

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Parental Leave Benefits and Breastfeeding in Germany: Effects of the 2007 Reform

Kottwitz, Anita; Oppermann, Anja; Spieß, C. Katharina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, Evolution and Enhancements

Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2007

After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...

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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, Evolution and Enhancements

Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

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Musn't Grumble: Immigration, Health and Health Service Use in the UK and Germany

Wadsworth, Jonathan - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

A rise in population caused by increased immigration, is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in population puts additional or differential pressure on welfare services which might affect the net fiscal contribution of immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant...

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Impacts of parental health shocks on children's non-cognitive skills

Westermaier, Franz; Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2013

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...

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The effects of smoking bans on self-assessed health: Evidence from Germany

Kuehnle, Daniel; Wunder, Christoph - 2013

The 16 German federal states introduced smoking bans on different dates during 2007 and 2008. These bans restricted smoking in enclosed public places, particularly in restaurants and bars. This study examines the effects of smoking bans on self-assessed health. Using data from the Socio-Economic...

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Mental illness and unhappiness

Layard, Richard; Chisholm, Dan; Patel, Vikram; Saxena, … - 2013

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 with a six-year lag. It explains more of the variance...

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