Die Lebenserwartung für ältere Jahrgänge steigt an und geht mit zunehmenden Einschränkungen bei Alltagsaktivitäten einher. - Die Altersklasse 50+ konnte in den letzten Jahren erhebliche Zuwächse in der Lebenserwartung verzeichnen. Dies ist vor allem auf den medizinisch-technischen...

Increasing long-term care demand raises the need of high quality care in nursing homes. This study analyses whether higher prices have a causal effect on quality of care in Swiss nursing homes and assesses the extent of cross-subsidization between different price components. We use...

Many studies have shown that childhood circumstances can have long term consequences that persist until old age. To better understand the transmission of early life circumstances, this paper analyses the effects of health and financial situation during childhood on quality of life after...

Taking advantage of temporal and geographical variations in the timing of school holidays in Germany, this paper finds that school holidays cause an 19 percent (0.03 percentage points) decrease in the probability of youth suicide. This effect is constant across different types of holidays (fall,...

People in Canada and the U.S. often make claims regarding whose country has a better health system. Several researchers have attempted to address this question by analysing subjective health in the two countries, thus assuming a common definition of 'good' health. Using data from the Joint...

Unter Jugendlichen in Deutschland geht fast jeder achte Todesfall auf Selbsttötung zurück. Die Gründe für diesen Schritt dürften sehr unterschiedlich sein. Wie eine aktuelle RWI-Studie zeigt, scheint die Schule dabei jedoch zum Teil eine Rolle zu spielen: Die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer...

Many countries limit public and private reimbursement for nursing care costs for social or financial reasons. Still, quality varies across nursing homes. We explore the causal link between case‐mix adjusted nurse staffing ratios as an indicator of care quality and different price components in...

We investigate the short- and long-term effects of retirement on loneliness using panel data from the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe. To estimate causal effects, we exploit differences in retirement eligibility rules across and within countries and use retirement thresholds in...

Amidst demographic shifts, advanced economies are facing critical nursing shortages. This study analyzes strategies of German nursing care providers to address these shortages using administrative data for the period 2007 to 2017. Our analysis reveals that higher nursing shortages correlate with...

Using multiple waves of Statistics Canada's Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) linked with the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB), as well as the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)/ International Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO) Armed Conflict Dataset, we examine the effect...