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  • SOEPpapers 97 / 2008

    Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years

    In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study are used to ...

    2008| John Cawley, C. Katharina Spieß
  • Diskussionspapiere 786 / 2008

    Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years

    In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study are used to estimate ...

    2008| John Cawley, C. Katharina Spieß
  • SOEPpapers 122 / 2008

    Changes in Immigrants' Body Mass Index with Their Duration of Residence in Germany

    This paper investigates how immigrants' Body Mass Index (BMI) changes with increasing years since migration in Germany. The data are drawn from three waves (2002, 2004, and 2006) of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). The results indicate a clear increase of the BMI with additional years in Germany for men and women.

    2008| Monika Sander
  • SOEPpapers 126 / 2008

    The Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Early Childhood

    The prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they can lead directly to adult physical health problems, which cause additional social costs. This paper examines the intergenerational link and transmission of ...

    2008| Katja Coneus, C. Katharina Spieß
  • Externe Monographien

    The Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Early Childhood

    Mannheim: ZEW, 2008, 38 S.
    (Discussion Paper / Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung ; 08-73)
    | Katja Coneus, C. Katharina Spieß
  • SOEPpapers 76 / 2008

    Does Job Satisfaction Improve the Health of Workers? New Evidence Using Panel Data and Objective Measures of Health

    This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Methodologically, it addresses two important design problems encountered frequently in the literature: (a) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self-reported measures of health status. Not ...

    2008| Justina A. V. Fischer, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
  • SOEPpapers 141 / 2008

    Do Optional Deductibles Reduce the Number of Doctor Visits? Empirical Evidence with German Data

    Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new variables in the German Socioeconomic Panel for the years 2002, 2004, and 2006 that measure individual health ...

    2008| Hendrik Schmitz
  • SOEPpapers 147 / 2008

    Is There Migration-Related Inequity in Access to or in the Utilisation of Health Care in Germany?

    This paper analyses immigrants' access to health care and utilisation of health care services in Germany. Thereby, it is investigated if there is inequity in access to or in the utilisation of health care services due to a lack of language skills or due to a lack of information about the health care system (approximated by years since migration)among first- and secondgeneration immigrants. The data ...

    2008| Monika Sander
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Obesity and Skill Attainment in Early Childhood

    This paper investigates the association between obesity and skill attainment in early childhood (aged 2-3 years). Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study are used to estimate models of developmental functioning in four critical areas (verbal skills, activities of daily living, motor skills, and social skills) as a function of various measures of weight (including body mass index and obesity) ...

    In: Economics and Human Biology 6 (2008), 3, S. 388-397 | John Cawley, C. Katharina Spieß
  • Sonstige Publikationen des DIW / Aufsätze 2008

    Does Family Poverty Affect the Health of Newborn Children?

    2008| Marcus Tamm
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