We use newly available data from Germany to study the relationship between parental income and child health. We find a … strong gradient between parental income and subjective child health as has been documented earlier in the US, Canada and the … children from low socioeconomic background are more likely to suffer from ‘objectively measured’ health problems - except for …

2004 erstmals erhobene Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) und der Pretest 2005 des Sozio … außerordentlich positiv eingeschätzt. -- Greifkraft ; Gesundheitsmessung ; SHARE ; SOEP ; grip strength ; health measurement ; SHARE …

The access and use of administrative health data in Germany is limited by several factors. Due to the large number and …-transparent manner. Linkage of health data with other data sources is hardly possible for legal and logistic reasons. These limitations … of individual administrative data, we propose several measures to improve access to health data in Germany. …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West … behavior. Overall, our estimates suggest significant non-monetary returns to education with respect to health outcomes and not … necessarily with respect to health-related behavior …

whose employment patterns are or were hardly affected by the current (early) retirement incentives. Using these "pure health … benefits. Often, poor health is cited as the main reason why workers cannot work until the regular retirement age. In this … market if they wanted to and if they were not limited by poor health? To answer this question, we follow two different …

of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …

Self-rated health (SRH) is a common health measurement in international research. Yet different versions of this item … health variables. Data were drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), comprising information … versions. Information was collected on basic demographics and health variables including chronic diseases, symptoms, functional …

I compare education-, income-, and wealth-related health inequality using data from 11 European countries and the US …. The health distributions in the US, England and France are relatively unequal independent of the stratifying variable …