das Risiko chronischer Armut in Deutschland gewinnen. Da sich die Untersuchungen aus Kapitel 3 nicht dazu eignen, Aussagen … with the individual dynamics of poverty in Germany. Based on longitudinal data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …Die meisten wissenschaftlichen Studien, die sich einer Analyse des gesellschaftlichen Problems „Armut“ widmen …

Context The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set targets related to important global poverty, health … Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Data on disease-specific child mortality were from the World Health Organization. Data on the … the nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys for 42 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, South …

, its distribution on the individual level as well as the reasons for inequality in wealth holdings in Germany have not been … fully explored. Marital splits constitute a potential shock in relation to wealth: divorce is likely to reduce wealth … holdings directly via court and lawyer fees and family status correlates with the determinants of wealth like income or …

marriage health gap is similar for men and women. If we allow for unobserved heterogeneity in innate health (permanent and age …-dependent), potentially correlated with timing and likelihood of marriage, we find that the effect of marriage on health disappears below age … health is associated with a higher probability of marriage and a lower probability of divorce, and there is strong …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

breastfeed their children, which could be due to a trade-off with work. Breastfeeding is important for the health of young …-being of very young children. Variations in rainfall may affect not only income, but also the opportunity cost of time of … children and shocks in the first year of life have an adverse effect on the survival of children that are born in the rainy …

health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …This paper uses three waves of panel surveys at the household level to study growth and poverty in Albania over the … analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second …

educational and health aspirations. Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the individual’s own … education. However, with respect to health, we find that people aspire to more rather than less health when surrounded by others …