Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Health Insurance Status and Physician Behavior in Germany

Germany has a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both insurance types provide fee-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as large for privately insured as for statutorily insured patients. Using German SOEP 2002 data, I analyze the effect of insurance status on the insured's number of doctor visits. Conditional on health, ...

Provision for Old Age - National and International Survey Data to Support Research and Policy on Aging

This report reviews recent trends in the collection of multidisciplinary and longitudinal data in the area of aging research, both in Germany and internationally. It also discusses important developments such as linkage with administrative records, the inclusion of health measurements and biomarkers, and the inclusion of populations in institutions, particularly nursing homes.

Provision for Old Age: National and International Survey Data to Support Research and Policy on Aging

This report reviews recent trends in the collection of multidisciplinary and longitudinal data in the area of aging research, both in Germany and internationally. It also discusses important developments such as linkage with administrative records, the inclusion of health measurements and biomarkers, and the inclusion of populations in institutions, particularly nursing homes.

Collateral damage: The German food crisis, educational attainment and labor market outcomes of German post-war cohorts

Using the German 1970 census to study educational and labor market outcomes of cohorts born during the German food crisis after World War II, I document that those born between November 1945 and May 1946 have significantly lower educational attainment and occupational status than cohorts born shortly before or after. Several alternative explanations for this finding are tested. Most likely, a short ...

Financial incentives, timing of births, and infant health: a closer look into the delivery room

As a result of strong financial incentives created by the German parental leave reform on January 1, 2007, some 1000 births have been shifted from the last days of 2006 to the first days of 2007, especially by working mothers. This fact is already described in the literature, yet there is no evidence as to the mechanisms and only scarce evidence regarding the effects on newborn health. I use new data ...

Does Schooling Affect Health Behavior? Evidence from the Educational Expansion in Western Germany

During the postwar period German states pursued policies to increase the share of young Germans obtaining a university entrance diploma (Abitur) by building more academic track schools, but the timing of educational expansion differed between states. This creates exogenous variation in the availability of higher education, which allows estimating the causal effect of education on health behaviors. ...

Arbeitsmarktintegration und sozioökonomische Situation von Alleinerziehenden. Ein empirischer Vergleich: Deutschland, Frankreich, Schweden, Vereinigtes Königreich

Die Studie untersucht die Arbeitsmarktbeteiligung und die Lebenslagen Alleinerziehender im Vergleich von vier europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten. Trotz unterschiedlicher Rahmenbedingungen bleiben die Teilhabechancen von Alleinerziehenden in allen betrachteten Ländern hinter denen von Müttern in Paarhaushalten zurück. Sie sind seltener erwerbstätig, häufiger armutsgefährdet und haben häufiger gesundheitliche ...

Zahlt sich Teilzeitarbeit aus? Einkommenswirkungen von Teilzeitbeschäftigung

Essays on variable risk attitudes

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