The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. Research has focused on effects on labor supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this knowledge gap and provide an investigation focused on...

Schlaganfälle sind eine der häufigsten Ursachen für Behinderung und Pflegebedürftigkeit. Die Verbesserung der postakuten Versorgung kann Beeinträchtigungen mildern und Kosten senken. Sekundärprävention ist von hoher Bedeutung um Reinsulte zu vermeiden. Die subjektive Lebensqualität wird...

Internet of Things is an inherently multi-disciplinary area, as mobile connectivity, sensor device technologies and cloud solutions make strong impact in a multitude of applications in diverse sectors. In this paper we study some technical solutions, business models and behavior aspects of IoT...

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC)....

Uncorrected vision is prevalent among rural children and those who migrate from rural areas to urban areas with their parents in China, of which more than 20 per cent are nearsighted. Since 2012 the Rural Education Action Program (REAP) has carried out the largest empirical vision care project...

We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The results...

A growing literature documents the positive long-term effects of policy-induced improvements in early-life health and nutrition. However, there is still scarce evidence on early-life health programs targeting a large share of the population and the role of such programs in increasing...

In Germany there is one tax on tobacco and also five different taxes on alcohol. The tax revenues of 2012 amounted to 17.4 billion euros. But neither tobacco nor alcohol taxes can be sufficiently legitimised. The taxes collide with the principle of tax equality and cannot be justified on the...