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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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Women between part-time and full-time work : the influence of changing hours of work on happiness and life-satisfaction
Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Romeu Gordo, Laura - 2010
in two countries (the UK and Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824463
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Multidimensional measurement of richness : theory and an application to Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010
addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825579
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Childbearing history, later life health, and mortality in Germany
Hank, Karsten - 2010
's physical health and survival is negative. Early motherhood is paralleled by poorer physical health in West Germany, whereas … late motherhood is associated with lower psychological well-being in East Germany. Moreover, among Western German women … "normative" life course track supposedly had adverse effects on women's health in West Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825927
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Pollution exposure and infant health : evidence from Germany
Coneus, Katja; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2010
years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826482
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Broke, ill, and obese : the effect of household debt on health
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2010
We analyze the effect of household indebtedness on different health outcomes using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1999-2009. To establish a causal effect, we rely on (a) fixed-effects methods, (b) a subsample of constantly employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826897
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Späte Mutterschaft als medizinischer Risikofaktor? : der Einfluss des Alters der Mutter auf das Risiko der Frühgeburt
Peters, Frederik - 2010
Das steigende mittlere Alter bei Geburt wird in der medizinischen Forschung als wichtiger Risikofaktor für die Gesundheit der Neugeborenen erachtet, die über den Indikator Frühgeburt bestimmt werden kann. Die vorliegende Analyse eines Kollektivs von insgesamt 1391 Geburten von Müttern im...
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Der Einfluss der Gesundheitszufriedenheit auf die Sportaktivität : eine empirische Längsschnittanalyse mit den Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels
Becker, Simone - 2011
Sport zur Gesundheitsbeeinflussung ist in westlichen Industriegesellschaften ein gesellschaftlich akzeptiertes Mittel. Da jedoch die meisten existierenden Studien auf Querschnittdaten beruhen, lassen sich auf der Grundlage dieser Studien keine kausalen Aussagen zur komplexen Wechselwirkung von...
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Health effects on children's willingness to compete
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2011
The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different socio-economic groups. While this literature focuses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154501
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Using geographically referenced data on environmental exposures for public health research : a feasibility study based on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)
Voigtländer, Sven; Goebel, Jan; Claßen, Thomas; Wurm, … - 2011
Background: In panel datasets information on environmental exposures is scarce. Thus, our goal was to probe the use of area-wide geographically referenced data for air pollution from an external data source in the analysis of physical health. Methods: The study population comprised SOEP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009158052