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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...
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This study presents credible estimates for the causal effect of a variation in obesity on employment. By exploring random assignment of a weight loss intervention based on monetary rewards, I provide convincing evidence that weight loss positively affects the employment prospects of obese women...
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Using multiple waves of Statistics Canada's Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) linked with the Longitudinal … health outcomes of immigrants to Canada. Our results demonstrate that immigrants from conflict zones face unique physical … health challenges that continue post-migration. Better understanding these challenges will help health policy makers and …
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We study the effect of education on health (hospital stays, number of diagnosed conditions, self-rated poor health, and … suggest a positive correlation of health and education which increases over the life-cycle. We do not, however, find any … positive local average treatment effects of an additional year of schooling on health or health care utilization for …
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This paper aims to understand the health effects of energy poverty in Germany using SOEP panel data from 2010 to 2020 … expenditures based energy poverty indicators with general health. The association is stronger for the subjective energy poverty … probability of being in at least satisfactory health. Investigating potential channels shows that mental health is consistently …
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We study the effect of education on vaccination against COVID-19 and influenza in Germany and Europe. Our identification strategy makes use of changes in compulsory schooling laws and allows to estimate local average treatment effects for individuals between 59 and 91 years of age. We find no...
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Dieses Papier untersucht die Fragestellung, ob neue Gesundheitsinformationen das individuelle Rauchverhalten beeinflussen. Um darüber hinaus zu testen, ob die Verhaltensänderung von der Art der Information abhängt, werden drei verschiedene Gesundheitsereignisse als unterschiedliche...
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This paper estimates the effect of informal care provision on female caregiver's health. We use data from the German … care provision on mental health which fades out over time. Five years after care provision there are no signifi cant … effects left. Both short- and medium-term effects on physical health are much smaller and insignificant throughout. …
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health behaviors. This effect is robust to separate estimations for boys and girls and to the control variables used. The …
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a spouse's health shock on own risk attitudes. A spouse …'s health shock (i.e., the occurrence of a severe disease) can influence own expectations about the probability of falling ill …, a health shock may act as a wake-up call to enjoy life and may increase risk willingness. Using German Socio Economic …
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