We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth …

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … suicide mortality. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while relatively strict …

Background: Health care expenditures (HCE) are known to steepen with increasing age, but the contributions of ….g. 66 to 70 year olds) at different time points (age-class analysis). Using health insurance claims data including morbidity … and mortality information, HCE growth was analyzed in Swiss mandatory health insurance for the years 1996 to 2011 and …

property of exogenous risk factors, i.e. health risks for which agents are not responsible for. The family of concentration … stated in order to rank two health distributions thanks to the generalized concentration curves. It is shown that the …

This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the (short-term) welfare consequences of an alcohol ban. Using … subjective well-being data to proxy individual welfare, I apply a regression discontinuity design where the date of the …

This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the (short-term) welfare consequences of an alcohol ban. Using … subjective well-being data to proxy individual welfare, I apply a regression discontinuity design where the date of the …

This paper aims to understand the health effects of energy poverty in Germany using SOEP panel data from 2010 to 2020 … expendituresbased energy poverty indicators with general health. The association is stronger for the subjective energy poverty metric … probability of being in at least satisfactory health. Investigating potential channels shows that mental health is consistently …

This paper aims to understand the health effects of energy poverty in Germany using SOEP panel data from 2010 to 2020 … expenditures based energy poverty indicators with general health. The association is stronger for the subjective energy poverty … probability of being in at least satisfactory health. Investigating potential channels shows that mental health is consistently …

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …