about risk factors for health in Germany by a longitudinal approach and emphasises the importance of earlier life stage …We used the panel data of the German Life Expectancy Survey (LES) for analysing the impact of specific life conditions … on the gender-specific health outcome of respondents aged 60+ at follow-up over a period of 13 years (for western Germany …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health … "normative" life course track supposedly had adverse effects on women's health in West Germany. … better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women …

. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life …This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …

keine kausalen Aussagen zur komplexen Wechselwirkung von Sport und Gesundheit treffen. Es stellt sich also die Frage, ob …Physical exercise for the good of your health is accepted practice in western industrialized societies. Given, however … conclusions about the complex ways in which exercise and health interact. The question remains: Are exercisers healthier because …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …

Numerous papers have documented a positive association between height and good physical health and also with good …-country data from Europe is used to analyse whether individuals' height is associated with higher or lower levels of life …-satisfaction. In simple models there is a positive but concave relationship between height and life satisfaction. However it is shown …