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The effects of education and working hours on health: A multivariate probit approach

Willing to be healthy? On the health effects of smoking, drinking and an unbalanced diet. A multivariate probit approach

In the theoretical literature, time and medical services are essential input factors for producing health capital. Based on the idea that individuals can influence their health through health investments, we use a multi-level approach to consider the role of health relevant behaviour in the health production process. We assume that besides medical services, health relevant be-haviour and outcomes are ...

Zur regionalen Entwicklung der Armut – Ergebnisse nach dem Mikrozensus 2015

The physician-patient relationship revisted: the patient's view

The importance of the physician-patient relationship for the health care market is beyond controversy. Recent work emphasizes a two-sided asymmetric information relationship between physician and patient. In contrast to most work looking only at the physician’s perspective, our paper concentrates on the patient’s view. Estimation results support the hypotheses that physician consultation and health ...

Childcare Trends in Germany: Increasing Socio-Economic Disparities in East and West

In East Germany, prior to reunification, day care provision was widely available to encourage mothers to return to work soon after giving birth. Conversely, in West Germany, child care facilities for the under-threes were few and far between and, at the end of the '80s/beginning of the '90s, the length of parental leave was gradually increased to up to three years following the birth of a ...

Trends in der Kinderbetreuung: sozioökonomische Unterschiede verstärken sich in Ost und West

In Ostdeutschland wurde vor der Wende durch eine weitreichende Verfügbarkeit von Kindertagesbetreuung eine rasche Rückkehr von Müttern in die Erwerbstätigkeit gefördert. In Westdeutschland existierte kaum institutionelle Kindertagesbetreuung für unter Dreijährige, und Ende der 80er und Anfang der 90er Jahre wurde der Erziehungsurlaub schrittweise auf bis zu drei Jahre nach einer Geburt ausgeweitet. ...

Expansion of Full-Day Childcare and Subjective Well-Being of Mothers: Interdependencies with Culture and Resources

This study investigates whether an expansion of state-subsidized full-day childcare may improve the subjective well-being of mothers of children under school age by acting as a boundary-spanning resource to facilitate the combination of employment and childcare responsibilities. It extends previous studies that showed contradictory results by demonstrating that the relationship with parental subjective ...

Kürzere Elternzeit von Müttern: gleichmäßigere Aufteilung der Familienarbeit?

Durch die Elterngeldreform 2007 und den Ausbau der Kindertageseinrichtungen der letzten Jahre sind in Deutschland Rahmenbedingungen geschaffen worden, die eine gleichmäßigere Aufteilung der Erwerbs- und Familienarbeit erleichtern sollen. Dieser Beitrag untersucht, ob die Länge der Elternzeit beider Elternteile die Aufteilung der Familienarbeit mittelfristig beeinflusst, wenn beide Partner wieder erwerbstätig ...

Change in the gender division of domestic work after mothers or fathers took leave: exploring alternative explanations

This study investigates how the durations of childcare leaves taken by mothers and fathers in Germany relate to the gender division of housework and childcare after labour market return. It examines to what extent changes in economic resources because of leave take-up may account for adaptations in the division of domestic work of dual-earner couples. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel ...