Background: There is increasing evidence that individual health is at least partly determined by neighbourhood and regional factors. Mechanisms, however, remain poorly understood, and evidence from Germany is scant. This study explores whether regional as well as neighbourhood deprivation are associated with physical health and to what extent this association can be explained by specific neighbourhood ...
Background: In panel datasets information on environmental exposures is scarce. Thus, our goal was to probe the use of area-wide geographically referenced data for air pollution from an external data source in the analysis of physical health. Methods: The study population comprised SOEP respondents in 2004 merged with exposures for NO2, PM10 and O3 based on a multi-year reanalysis of the EURopean Air ...
Eine der großen statistischen Erhebungen der Wissenschaft ist eng mit der TU Berlin verbunden: das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP). Dieser Service ist am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin angesiedelt. Für die Studierenden der TU Berlin bietet das SOEP viele Stellen als studentische Hilfskräfte an. In der Lehre wird jeweils im Frühjahr eine fakultätsübergreifende Übung angeboten, ...