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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture?
Tauchmann, Harald - 2008
In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in the East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the … collapse of the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By … analyzing individual data, we find that East-Germany largely caught up with West-Germany?s ever-growing prevalence of illicit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295265
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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Cannabis Use: Socioeconomics or Culture?
Tauchmann, Harald - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-29, pp. 1-27
In contrast to West Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East Germany until 1990. However, after the … collapse of the former GDR, East Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in substance abuse. By analyzing individual … data, we find that East Germany largely caught up with West Germany's ever-growing prevalence of cannabis use within a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298613
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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture?
Tauchmann, Harald - 2008
In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the collapse of … the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By analyzing … individual data, we find that East-Germany largely caught up with West-Germany's ever-growing prevalence of illicit drugs within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264732
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The Mortality Crisis in East Germany
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998
explaining mortality crises and their relevance for the case of East Germany. Based on individual-level panel data the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262254
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Modin, Bitte - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329078
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Income and longevity revisited: Do high-earning women live longer?
Breyer, Friedrich; Marcus, Jan - 2010
The empirical relationship between income and longevity has been addressed by a large number of studies, but most were confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the loose relationship between own earnings and household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285738
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Lebenszufriedenheit am Ende des Lebens in Ost- und Westdeutschland: die DDR wirft einen langen Schatten
Gerstorf, Denis; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
"Die meisten Menschen sind die meiste Zeit über glücklich" stellt in einer Zusammenfassung vieler empirischer Studien Biswas-Diener (2009) fest. Sogar nach einschneidenden Negativerlebnissen wie Arbeitslosigkeit oder dem Verlust des Partners passen sich die meisten Menschen recht schnell an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600962
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Does the Quality of Hospital Treatment Vary by Days of the Week?
Schwierz, Christoph; Augurzky, Boris; Wasem, Jürgen - 2009
This paper investigates the relationship between health outcomes and variations in staffing levels as approximated by admissions on weekdays versus admissions on weekends. Because days of admission are potentially endogenous, we instrument on emergency admissions only, which are reasonably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265804
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Beyond the business cycle: Factors driving aggregate mortality rates
Hanewald, Katja - 2008
-economic and ecological factors as explanatory variables. Germany is chosen as an indicative example for other industrialized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265667
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Trends of children's height and parental unemployment: a large-scale anthropometric study on Eastern Germany, 1994 - 2006
Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - 2008
declined over longer time spans in Eastern Germany since 1880 - except for the most recent period 1997-2006. In the Eastern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264283