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The long-run effects of sports club vouchers for primary school children
Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021
Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...
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In Vino Pecunia? The Association between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008
. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle". Using … importantly, we shed light on the alcohol-income puzzle by analyzing, for the first time, the association between beverage … discussed in view of the likelihood that the alcohol-income puzzle is a multicausal phenomenon. …
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In Vino Pecunia?: The Association between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle". Using … importantly, we shed light on the alcohol-income puzzle by analyzing, for the first time, the association between beverage … discussed in view of the likelihood that the alcohol-income puzzle is a multicausal phenomenon. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017450
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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,...
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Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Lechner, Michael - 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study...
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One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior
Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2010
This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing of state bans to identify the effect that...
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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...
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Smoking behaviour in Germany: Evidence from the SOEP
Heilert, Daniela; Kaul, Ashok - 2017
high income. People who quit smoking were on average more highly educated, had a higher income and had most likely a lower … income. Especially for younger birth cohorts, smoking prevalence among those with a lower educational level was particularly …
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Hohe Impfbereitschaft gegen Covid-19 in Deutschland, Impfpflicht bleibt kontrovers
Graeber, Daniel; Schmidt-Petri, Christoph; Schröder, … - 2020
Dieser Bericht beschreibt die Impfbereitschaft und Akzeptanz einer Impfpflicht gegen Covid-19 in Juni und Juli 2020 in Deutschland auf Basis einer Teilstichprobe (SOEP-CoV) des Sozioökonomischen Panels, die zum Themenkomplex Covid-19 befragt wurde. SOEP-CoV beinhaltete auch Fragen zur...
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Buying control? "Locus of control" and the uptake of supplementary health insurance
Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan; de New, Sonja C. - 2021
deviation increase in the measure of internal LOC is equivalent to an increase in household income by 14 percent. Second, we …
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