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The effect of private health insurance on self-assessed health status and health satisfaction in Germany
Petilliot, René - 2017
In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover, privately insured individuals are treated preferentially by doctors. In this article, I use subjective health data to examine whether these superior features of private insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674043
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Spillover Effects of Maternal Education on Child's Health and Schooling
Kemptner, Daniel; Marcus, Jan - 2011
This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes in Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach that has not yet been used in the intergenerational context. For that purpose, we draw on a rich German panel data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601017
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Spillover Effects of Maternal Education on Child's Health and Schooling
Kemptner, Daniel; Marcus, Jan - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes in Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach that has not yet been used in the intergenerational context. For that purpose, we draw on a rich German panel data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021617
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution: Implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2014
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352037
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Life expectancy and parental education in Germany
Huebener, Mathias - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985358
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Why Is the World Getting Older? The Influence of Happiness on Mortality
Guven, Cahit; Saloumidis, Rudolph - 2009
happiness levels around the world suggesting that happiness might be one of the causes behind the decline in mortality. We … investigate the relationship between happiness and mortality using the German Socio-Economic Panel. We consider doctor visits … ill people in decreasing mortality than for those who are not chronically ill. The positive influence of happiness on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600842
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Comparing the Predictive Power of Subjective and Objective Health Indicators: Changes in Hand Grip Strength and Overall Satisfaction with Life as Predictors of Mortality
Ambrasat, Jens; Schupp, Jürgen; Wagner, Gert G. - 2011
the SOEP survey. In a first step, we examine short-term mortality outcomes predicted by changes in hand grip strength … satisfaction. We find that both measures are related to mortality risk. However, the effects are quite independent. Thus we argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601040
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Why Is the World Getting Older?: The Influence of Happiness on Mortality
Guven, Cahit; Saloumidis, Rudolph - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
happiness levels around the world suggesting that happiness might be one of the causes behind the decline in mortality. We … investigate the relationship between happiness and mortality using the German Socio-Economic Panel. We consider doctor visits … ill people in decreasing mortality than for those who are not chronically ill. The positive influence of happiness on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017448
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Comparing the Predictive Power of Subjective and Objective Health Indicators: Changes in Hand Grip Strength and Overall Satisfaction with Life as Predictors of Mortality
Ambrasat, Jens; Schupp, Jürgen; Wagner, Gert G. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
the SOEP survey. In a first step, we examine short-term mortality outcomes predicted by changes in hand grip strength … satisfaction. We find that both measures are related to mortality risk. However, the effects are quite independent. Thus we argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283554
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011
Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600994