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Impact of policy measures and behavior on the COVID pandemic in Germany
Bethäuser, Jenny - 2024
Critics protest loudly against restrictions imposed by politicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: Mandatory masks, lockdowns, school and business closures. This paper examines (1) the extent to which these policies have indirectly contributed to limiting the number of COVID-19 cases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014636992
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Do unemployment benefits and employment protection influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis
Rottmann, Horst - 2014
We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … suicide mortality. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while relatively strict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401550
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Parental income and children's smoking behaviour: Evidence from the British household panel survey
Blow, Laura; Leicester, Andrew; Windmeijer, Frank A. G. - 2005
Does money matter? When investigating health behaviour, research often finds a strong positive association between income and healthy behaviour. This could however be due to individual characteristics that determine both income and health investment and is not necessarily due to the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293009
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Health Status and Health Dynamics in an Empirical Model of Expected Longevity
Benitez-Silva, Hugo; Ni, Huan - Economics Department, State University of New … - 2005
Expected longevity is an important factor inuencing older individuals' decisions such as consumption, savings, purchase of life insurance and annuities, claiming of Social Security bene- fits, and labor supply. It has also been shown to be a good predictor of actual longevity, which in turn is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461796
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Parental income and children's smoking behaviour: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
Blow, Laura; Leicester, Andrew; Windmeijer, Frank - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005
Does money matter? When investigating health behaviour, research often finds a strong positive association between income and healthy behaviour. This could however be due to individual characteristics that determine both income and health investment and is not necessarily due to the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037514
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Características socio-económicas de las personas con discapacidad en España: un estudio empírico/Socio-Economic Characteristics of People with Disabilities in Spain: an Empirical S...
PASCUAL SÁEZ, MARTA; CANTARERO PRIETO, DAVID - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 25 (2007) Diciembre, pp. 817-817
The increasing number of people with some disabilities in our country has motivated a growing interest in the study of their situation from an economic and social point of view. The objective of this paper is to analyze the socio-economic characteristics of people with disabilities paying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005690322
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Aids and Economic Growth: A Human Capital Approach.
McDonald, Scott; Roberts, Jennifer - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2004
It is estimated that by 2001 20 million people had died from AIDS, which is now the world´s fourth biggest cause of death. While the highest prevalence and death rates and number of infected persons are reported for sub-Saharan Africa, where life expectancies at birth are declining rapidly and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005593092
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Social Capital and Health of Older Europeans
Sirven, Nicolas; Debrand, Thierry - Institut de Recherche et de Documentation en Économie … - 2011
This research uses a time-based approach of the causal relationship (Granger-like)between health and social capital for older people in Europe. We use panel data from waves 1 and 2 of SHARE (the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe)for the analysis. Additional wave 3 data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852075
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Heterogeneity in Hospitals' Responses to a Financial Reform: A Random Coefficient Analysis of The Impact of Activity-Based Financing on Efficiency
Biorn, Erik; Hagen, Terje P.; Iversen, Tor; Magnussen, Jon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The paper examines the heterogeneity with respect to the impact of a financial reform - Activity Based Financing (ABF) - on hospital efficiency in Norway. Measures of technical efficiency and of cost-efficiency are considered. The data set is from a contiguous ten-year panel of 47 hospitals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112509
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Impact of policy measures and behavior on the COVID pandemic in Germany
Bethäuser, Jenny - 2024
Critics protest loudly against restrictions imposed by politicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: Mandatory masks, lockdowns, school and business closures. This paper examines (1) the extent to which these policies have indirectly contributed to limiting the number of COVID-19 cases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046525