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Children of war: the long-run effects of large-scale physical destruction and warfare on children

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2009

. I combine a unique dataset on city-level destruction in Germany caused by Allied Air Forces bombing during WWII with …

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Revisiting the income-health nexus: the importance of choosing the 'right' indicator

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...

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Does schooling affect health behavior? Evidence from the educational expansion in Western Germany

Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen; Salm, Martin - 2009

During the postwar period German states pursued policies to increase the share of young Germans obtaining a university entrance diploma (Abitur) by building more academic track schools, but the timing of educational expansion differed between states. This creates exogenous variation in the...

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One last puff? Public smoking bans and smoking behavior

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2010

, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in …-in-differences estimates show that the introduction of smoke-free legislation in Germany did not change average smoking behavior within the …

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The effect of private health insurance on medical care utilization and self-assessed health in Germany

Hullegie, Patrick; Klein, Tobias J. - 2010

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is …

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A socio-economic analysis of youth disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2010

questionnaires, approximately 13% of young people in Germany between the ages of 17 and 19 are disconnected. The percentage of …

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Much Ado About Nothing? – Smoking Bans and Germany's Hospitality Industry

Kvasnicka, Michael; Tauchmann, Harald - 2010

Over the last years, public smoking bans have been introduced in most European countries. Unlike elsewhere, in Germany …In den meisten Europäischen Ländern wurden in jüngerer Vergangenheit Rauchverbote eingeführt. Deutschland stellt hier …

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Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption – A Quantile Regression Approach

Schmidt, Christoph M.; Tauchmann, Harald - 2010

This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children's later consumption of alcohol - which is frequently found to be of positive sign - exhibits a certain pattern of heterogeneity. In particular, if this effect is more prominent in the upper tail than...

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Versorgung von HIV-Patienten in Deutschland: Herausforderungen der Zukunft

Claes, Christa; Mittendorf, Thomas; Stoll, Matthias - 2009

Als Folge der jüngsten gesundheitspolitischen Reformen in Deutschland scheint ein Wandel in der HIV …Taking into account recent health care reforms in Germany a change of the structure in the provision of HIV health care …

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Parental income and child health in Germany

Reinhold, Steffen; Jürges, Hendrik - 2009

We use newly available data from Germany to study the relationship between parental income and child health. We find a … UK. The relationship in Germany is about as strong in the US and stronger than in the UK. However, in contrast to US …

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