We study the effects of retirement on cognitive functioning among women aged 63 to 67 by exploiting a German retirement reform that raised the early retirement age for women born after 1951 by three years, from 60 to 63. Our indicators of cognitive functioning are experimental measures (word...

Does exposure to air pollution impact mental health? This paper uses administrative health insurance data to estimate the long-term cumulative effects of air pollution exposure on mental health outcomes. For identification, we exploit the staggered introduction of Low Emission Zones (LEZs)...

Dieser Bericht untersucht die Folgen der COVID-19-Pandemie auf das Leistungsgeschehen der Krankenhäuser in Deutschland. Er untersucht außerdem, ob die im Jahr 2021 geleisteten Ausgleichszahlungen die Erlösminderungen der Krankenhäuser aufgrund des Rückgangs der Leistungsmenge ausgleichen...

Dieser Bericht untersucht die Folgen der Covid-19-Pandemie auf das Leistungsgeschehen der Krankenhäuser in Deutschland für den Zeitraum vom 01. Januar 2020 bis zum 31.Mai 2021. Er untersucht außerdem, ob die seit dem 16. März 2020 geltenden Ausgleichszahlungen die Erlösminderungen der...

Public investment in hospitals in Germany has been insufficient for decades, making it difficultto finance digitization. Due to dual financing, hospitals could alternatively use their own profitsto pay for digitization efforts. This raises the question of whether there is a relationship...

Hospital digitalization is to reduce costs, increase efficiency and productivity, and to improve quality of care. However, the literature lacks clarity on the meaning of "hospital digitalization," how to measure it, and what quality it might affect. We use data from the DigitalRadar project from...

We study the regional distribution of primary care physicians in Germany to learn about the extent and possible reasons of geographic maldistribution. For this aim, we apply a greedy capacitated algorithm on very fine spatial data. We compare this reference allocation of primary care physicians...

We conduct a framed laboratory experiment to gain in-depth insights on factors that drive collective research and development efforts among firms located along the automotive value chain. In particular, we employ a public goods experiment and analyze the influence of sequential decision-making...

Dieser Bericht untersucht die Folgen der Covid-19-Pandemie auf die Erlöse und das Leistungsgeschehen der Krankenhäuser für den Zeitraum vom 1. Januar 2020 bis zum 30. September 2020 unter Berücksichtigung der seit dem 16. März 2020 geltenden Freihaltepauschale. Der erste Bericht vom 17....