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Smile or die : can subjective well-being increase survival in the face of substantive health impairments?

Binder, Martin; Bünstorf, Guido - 2016

A robust relationship between subjective well-being and mortality has been established in the literature. While this relationship has been confirmed for many measures and data sets, few studies address how it is affected by concrete diseases. In this paper we assess for the British Household...

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Bio-demographic and health aspects of ageing in the EU

Herce, José A.; Ahn, Namkee; Génova, Ricard; Pereira, … - 2003

In this paper we describe and analyse a demographic data base that has been gathered for several EU countries under a research project called AGIR. The project tries to establish facts and evidence on the ageing process in EU countries and relate this process with health and retirement issues....

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Does the quality of hospital treatment vary by days of the week?

Schwierz, Christoph; Augurzky, Boris; Wasem, Jürgen - 2009

This paper investigates the relationship between health outcomes and variations in staffing levels as approximated by admissions on weekdays versus admissions on weekends. Because days of admission are potentially endogenous, we instrument on emergency admissions only, which are reasonably...

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The Contribution of Pharmaceutical Innovation to Longevity Growth in Germany and France

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2014

I investigate the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to recent longevity growth in Germany and France. First, I …-adjusted mortality rates of residents of Germany, using longitudinal, annual, state-level data during the period 2000-2007. The estimates …

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Does Stress Shorten Your Life? Evidence from Parental Bereavement

Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2019

This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Allowing for time-varying treatment effects, I find no impact of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run and in particular for men. This is likely caused by changes toward adverse health...

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Factors Driving Aggregate Mortality Rates in Postwar Germany

Hanewald, Katja - 2012

Using German data over the period 1956-2006, this study provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of factors driving aggregate mortality rates over time. It differs from previous contributions in this field by simultaneously considering an extensive set of macroeconomic, socioeconomic, and...

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Bio-Demographic and Health Aspects of Ageing in the EU

Herce, Jose A.; Ahn, Namkee; Maleras, Ricard Gènova; … - 2021

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Timing matters : the impact of response measures on COVID-19-related hospitalization and death rates in Germany and Switzerland

Huber, Martin; Langen, Henrika - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 156 (2020) 1/10, pp. 1-19

We assess the impact of the timing of lockdown measures implemented in Germany and Switzerland on cumulative COVID-19 … regression (Germany and Switzerland), doubly robust estimation (Germany), or synthetic controls (Switzerland). We find for both … one. For Germany, we further evaluate curfews (as introduced in a subset of states) based on cross-regional variation. We …

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Pandemic meets pollution: poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany …

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Pandemic meets pollution : poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany …

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