inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … objective health measures. -- Health inequality ; concentration index ; income measurement ; SOEP …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 …We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

. 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. …

This paper makes use of Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects. We focus on Germany …-level health dependencies. As dependent variable, we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. Our … is comparable to an age effect on health of up to 31 years. Even 20 years after the peaceful German reunification, we …

access to paid sick leave. Low-income employees, service sector employees, and those in poor health have the lowest coverage …

find a decrease by 0.5 admissions (-6.5%) due to asthma per day, per 1 million population. The health prevention effects …

objective grip strength measure, we provide evidence of the presence of income-related reporting heterogeneity in generic health … of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …

-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A …-related health. …

This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as driving forces of risky health behavior. We define … absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate their measurement in surveys and provide evidence on their relevance … provide robust empirical evidence that respondents who overestimate their health are less likely to exercise and sleep enough …

This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as driving forces of risky health behavior. We define … absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate their measurement in surveys and provide evidence on their relevance … provide robust empirical evidence that respondents who overestimate their health are less likely to exercise and sleep enough …