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Adena, Maja; Myck, Michał - 2013

Wir untersuchen den Einfluss materieller Umstände auf die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung 50+ in Europa. Dafür analysieren … in Armut, definiert über das relative Einkommen, keinen Einfluss auf die Gesundheit ausübt. Bei weiter gefassten … höher. Solche Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass die materiellen Lebensumstände entscheidend für die Gesundheit der älteren …

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Breaking the silence : group discussions, and the adoption of welfare-improving technologies

Castro, Silvia; Mang, Clarissa - 2023

Social pressure and stigma can hinder the adoption of available technologies, especially in the context of sensitive health issues. We run a field experiment on the take-up of menstrual products in Bangladesh and test a discussion-based intervention in a work setting. We vary participation in...

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Overcoming time inconsistency with a matched bet : theory and evidence from exercising

Woerner, Andrej - 2023

This paper introduces the matched-bet mechanism. The matched bet is an easily applicable and strictly budget-balanced mechanism that aims to help people overcome time-inconsistent behavior. I show theoretically that offering a matched bet helps both sophisticated and naive procrastinators to...

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In-utero exposure to violence and child health in Iraq

Sardoschau, Sulin - 2023

This paper examines the impact of exposure to violence during pregnancy on anthropometric and cognitive outcomes of children in the medium-run. I combine detailed household-level data on more than 36,000 children with geo-coded information on civilian casualties in the aftermath of the US...

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The effects of an increase in the retirement age on health : evidence from administrative data

Barschkett, Mara; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; … - 2021

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort-specific pension reform for women using two complementary empirical approaches - a Regression Discontinuity Design and a Difference-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on...

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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: evidence from a modern-day prohibition

Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D. H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022

This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...

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Age-specific effects of early daycare on children's health

Barschkett, Mara - 2022

Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early daycare attendance on health has received little...

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The role of friends in the opioid epidemic

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; … - 2024

The role of friends in the US opioid epidemic is examined. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), adults aged 25-34 and their high school best friends are focused on. An instrumental variable technique is employed to estimate peer effects in opioid...

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Poverty alleviation and the degree of centralisation in European schemes of social assistance

Hölsch, Katja - 2003

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Dismissal protection and long-term sickness absence : first evidence from Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hiesinger, Karolin - 2020

This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness ( six weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small establishments from dismissal protection from five to ten workers. Using administrative data,...

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