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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the mortality decline
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Driva, Anastasia; Hornung, Erik - 2017 - This version: August 3, 2017
We investigate the impact on mortality of the world's first compulsory health insurance, established by Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire, in 1884. Employing a multi-layered empirical setup, we draw on international comparisons and difference-indifferences strategies using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704542
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Bismarck's health insurance and the mortality decline
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Driva, Anastasia; Hornung, Erik - 2018
We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in the German Empire in 1884 as a natural experiment, we estimate flexible difference-in-differences models exploiting variation in eligibility for insurance across occupations. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011879770
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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2018
We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in the German Empire in 1884 as a natural experiment, we estimate flexible difference-in-differences models exploiting variation in eligibility for insurance across occupations. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932916
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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2018
We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in the German Empire in 1884 as a natural experiment, we estimate flexible difference-in-differences models exploiting variation in eligibility for insurance across occupations. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915318
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Caroline Hall: lessons from an expansion of upper secondary schooling
Grönqvist, Hans; Hall, Caroline King Barnard - 2011
This paper studies effects of education policy on early fertility. We study a major educational reform in Sweden in … statistically significant effect on men's fertility decisions. Our results suggest that the social benefits of changes in education … policy may extend beyond those usually claimed. -- Schooling reform ; teenage childbearing ; fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388833
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Extracurricular Educational Programs and School Readiness : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment with Preschool Children
Makles, Anna - 2016
This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996262
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Caroline Hall: Lessons from an expansion of upper secondary schooling
Grönqvist, Hans; Hall, Caroline - 2011
This paper studies effects of education policy on early fertility. We study a major educational reform in Sweden in … statistically significant effect on men's fertility decisions. Our results suggest that the social benefits of changes in education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321158
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Rethinking the Crime Reducing Effect of Education? Mechanisms and Evidence from Regional Divides
Brilli, Ylenia - 2015
We estimate the contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime by exploiting the variation in crime rates between different cohorts and at different ages that followed a reform that raised the school-leaving age in Italy. A 1 percentage-point increase of the enrollment rate reduces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023489
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The Long-Run Effects of Recessions on Education and Income
Stuart, Bryan A. - 2019
This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census data, I estimate difference-in-differences regressions that exploit variation across counties in recession severity and across cohorts in age at the time of the recession. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867978
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The long-run effects of recessions on education and income
Stuart, Bryan A. - 2019
This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census data, I estimate difference-in-differences regressions that exploit variation across counties in recession severity and across cohorts in age at the time of the recession. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022789