The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle". Using …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for …

This paper makes use of Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects. We focus on Germany …-level health dependencies. As dependent variable, we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. Our … is comparable to an age effect on health of up to 31 years. Even 20 years after the peaceful German reunification, we …

find a decrease by 0.5 admissions (-6.5%) due to asthma per day, per 1 million population. The health prevention effects …

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 …-assessed health (SAH) are employed. Measures of medical care usage like doctor visits result in substantially lower concentration …

-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A …-related health. …