This text aims to offer three contributions to the study of Brazilian public expenditures on health and education. First by constructing annual and bimonthly estimates of these expenditures in order to allow time series analyses of their historical evolution. Second by analysing the relative...

Immer mehr Menschen nehmen die Sozialhilfeleistung "Hilfe zur Pflege" in Anspruch. Allerdings bedeutet das nicht automatisch, dass Pflegebedürftigkeit heute häufiger in die Bedürftigkeit führt als noch vor zehn Jahren. Denn auch die Pflegefallzahlen insgesamt sind in den letzten Jahren immer...

Die Anzahl der Pflegebedürftigen, die auf Hilfe zur Pflege angewiesen sind, steigt immer weiter. Auch wenn dies nicht zwangsläufig bedeutet, dass Pflegebedürftigkeit zunehmend in die Bedürftigkeit führt - denn insgesamt steigt auch die Zahl der Pflegebedürftigen - ist dies doch eine...

In this study, we document the effect of Food Stamp access on adult health care utilization. While Food Stamps is one of the largest safety net programs in the U.S. today, the universal nature of the program across geographic areas and over time limits the potential for quasi-experimental...

Die Bundesregierung hat angekündigt, die Bedingungen in der Pflege weiter verbessern zu wollen. Allerdings hat der Bund keineswegs die alleinige Gestaltungshoheit im Bereich der Pflege. Insbesondere das Angebot an Pflegeheimplätzen und an ambulanter Pflege vor Ort wird maßgeblich durch das...

The effect of marijuana liberalization on crime is object of a large interest by social scientists and policy-makers. However, due to the scarcity of relevant data, the displacement effect of liberalization on the supply of illegal drugs remained substantially unexplored. This paper exploits the...

We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the 19th century using data from Sweden. To instrument for total emigration over several decades, we exploit severe local frost shocks that sparked an initial wave of emigration, interacted with within-country travel...

We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on...

How do patient and provider incentives affect mode and cost of long-term care? Our analysis of 1 million nursing home stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their stays instead of transitioning to community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second,...

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai implemented lockdown measures to stop transmission of the virus. Over 26 million residents, including 0.8 million children aged 3-6, were confined at home. This study leveraged a city-wide cohort of preschool children - the Shanghai...