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This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly,...
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This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich German panel data set containing information about three generations. This allows instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on grandparental...
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This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behaviour and body weight using German SOEP data. Baseline non-smokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify smoking. In particular, single individuals and those with lower health or...
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The paper studies the current COVID-19 pandemic by applying an adapted epidemiologic model, where each individual is in one of the five states “susceptible”, “infected”, “removed”, “immune healthy” or “dead”. We extend the basic model with time-invariant transition rates...
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The paper argues that a comprehensive activation strategy is called for – in both unemployment and disability insurance … – to minimize the conflict between income insurance and work incentives and to prevent the economic crisis from causing a … insurance. The paper also argues that the distinction between unemployment and disability is blurred, and that both temporary …
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Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However …
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