I show that serious, yet common, parental health shocks in childhood have immediate and lasting effects on mental … health and human capital formation for children. Children who experience a parental health shock are more likely to have … take anti-depressants following a parental health shock have lower educational attainments in early adulthood, while …

As long as their asylum application is not approved or their duration of stay does not exceed 15 months, asylum … out electronic health cards (eHC) which allow immediate direct access to the health system for asylum-seekers. In this … paper, we examine whether being eligible to the eHC as a result of the policy change has had an effect on the health …

with twelve concrete health impairments. Specifically, we analyze whether subjective well-being predicts longer survival in … decrease survival in our sample, even controlling for the severity of health problems. But our results cast doubt on strong … significant interactions between substantive health impairments and life satisfaction. Higher subjective well-being may keep you …

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

This paper makes use of Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects. We focus on Germany …-level health dependencies. As dependent variable, we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. Our … is comparable to an age effect on health of up to 31 years. Even 20 years after the peaceful German reunification, we …

This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. Based on data from the German … Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life … expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as …

. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute … movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health …

gender-specific differences in health, i.e. the so-called "gender health gap", in the same age group. Self-assessed general … health in 2013 reveals no significant differences between men and women in the countries studied. However, gender … the sexes. Although the study does not measure causal relationships between income and health, the results indicate that …

In this study, we analyze health effects of a recent education reform in Germany exposing students to increased … schooling intensity. The reform shortened the higher secondary education track by one year. As the overall curriculum required … significantly reduced adolescents' self-rated mental health status. The overall effect on the mental component summary score (MCS …

This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich …-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. We find … to 0.35 standard deviations in health. Even 20 years after German reunification, we detect a clear spatial East …