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  • SOEPpapers 200 / 2009

    Between-Person Disparities in the Progression of Late-Life Well-Being

    Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. In this chapter, we argue that focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture does not necessarily prevail promises to help us better understand between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being. In a first step, we review empirical evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel ...

    2009| Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Elizabeth Fauth, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
  • Externe Monographien

    Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

    While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood. Using twelve years of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we study the nature of the relationship between ...

    Bonn: IZA, 2009, 21 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 4154)
    | Peter Haan, Michal Myck
  • SOEPpapers 194 / 2009

    Other-Regarding Preferences, Spousal Disability and Happiness: Evidence from German Couples

    This paper considers the impact of adverse health shocks that hit an individual's partner on subjective well-being. Using data on couples from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2006, I compare the losses in well-being caused by own and spousal disability using panel-regressions. I find that women and to a lesser extent men are harmed by spousal disability which is consistent with ...

    2009| Nils Braakmann
  • SOEPpapers 188 / 2009

    Early Retirement and Inequality in Britain and Germany: How Important Is Health?

    Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main reasons seems to be the difference in the relative position of the retired, who, in Britain, are much more concentrated in the lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among those on low incomes in Britain, early ...

    2009| Jennifer Roberts, Nigel Rice, Andrew M. Jones
  • SOEPpapers 211 / 2009

    Measurement of Health, the Sensitivity of the Concentration Index, and Reporting Heterogeneity

    Using representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for 2006, we show that the magnitude of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self-assessed health (SAH) are employed. Measures ...

    2009| Nicolas R. Ziebarth
  • SOEPpapers 217 / 2009

    The Effect of Lone Motherhood on the Smoking Behaviour of Young Adults

    We provide evidence that living with an unmarried mother during childhood raises smoking propensities for young adults in Germany.

    2009| Marco Francesconi, Stephen P. Jenkins, Thomas Siedler
  • Diskussionspapiere 910 / 2009

    "Do I Really Need to Go to Rehab? I'd Say No, No, No.": Estimating Price Elasticities of Convalescent Care Programs

    This study is the first to estimate the price elasticities of demand for both medical rehabilitation programs and treatment at health spas. In Germany, the Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) covers both forms of therapy if administered in authorized medical facilities on referral from a physician. While health resort stays are prescribed to recover from general symptoms of poor health and are preventive ...

    2009| Nicolas R. Ziebarth
  • SOEPpapers 212 / 2009

    "Do I Really Need to Go to Rehab? I'd say No, No, No.": Estimating Price Elasticities of Convalescent Care Programs

    This study is the first to estimate the price elasticities of demand for both medical rehabilitation programs and treatment at health spas. In Germany, the Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) covers both forms of therapy if administered in authorized medical facilities on referral from a physician. While health resort stays are prescribed to recover from general symptoms of poor health and are preventive ...

    2009| Nicolas R. Ziebarth
  • ESCIRRU- Papers 12 / 2009

    The Impact of Chernobyl on Health and Labour Market Performance in the Ukraine

    Using longitudinal data from the Ukraine we examine the extent of any long-lasting effects of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster on the health and labour market performance of the adult workforce. The variation in the local area level of radiation fallout from the Chernobyl accident is considered as a potential instrument to try to establish the causal impact of poor health on labour force ...

    2009| Hartmut Lehmann, Jonathan Wadsworth
  • SOEPpapers 225 / 2009

    Co-pay and Feel Okay: Evidence of Illusory Health Gains from a Health Insurance Reform

    The reliability of general self-rated health status is examined using the reform of the public health insurance system of Germany in 2004 as a source of exogenous variation. Among others, the reform introduced a co-payment for ambulatory doctor visits and increased the co-payments for prescription drugs. This natural experiment allows identification of the causal impact of the program on self-assessed ...

    2009| Alfredo R. Paloyo
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