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  • Diskussionspapiere 1500 / 2015

    Long-Term Care Reform and the Labor Supply of Household Members: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

    Germany introduced a new mandatory insurance for long-term care in 1995 as part of its social security system. It replaced a system based on means tested social welfare. Benefits from the long-term care insurance are not means tested and depend on the required level of care. The insurance provides both benefits in kind and cash benefits. The new scheme improved the situation for households to organize ...

    2015| Johannes Geyer, Thorben Korfhage
  • SOEPpapers 784 / 2015

    Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?

    Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness. Multiple regression shows that mental illness ...

    2015| Sarah Flèche, Richard Layard
  • SOEPpapers 785 / 2015

    Long-Term Care Reform and the Labor Supply of Household Members: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

    Germany introduced a new mandatory insurance for long-term care in 1995 as part of its social security system. It replaced a system based on meanstested social welfare. Benefits from the long-term care insurance are not means tested and depend on the required level of care. The insurance provides both benefits in kind and cash benefits. The new scheme improved the situation for households to organize ...

    2015| Johannes Geyer, Thorben Korfhage
  • SOEPpapers 783 / 2015

    Personality and Smoking: Individual-Participant Meta-Analysis of 9 Cohort Studies

    Aims: To investigate cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between personality and smoking, and test whether sociodemographic factors modify these associations.Design: Cross-sectional and longitudinal individual-participant meta-analysis. Setting: Nine cohort studies from Australia, Germany, UK and US. Participants: A total of 79,757 men and women (mean age = 51 years). ...

    2015| Christian Hakulinen, Mirka Hintsanen, Marcus R. Munafò, Marianna Virtanen, Mika Kivimäki, G. David Batty, Markus Jokela
  • Diskussionspapiere 1486 / 2015

    The Relationship between Healthcare Expenditure and Disposable Personal Income in the US States: A Fractional Integration and Cointegration Analysis

    This study examines the relationship between healthcare expenditure and disposable income in the 50 US states over the period 1966-2009 using fractional integration and cointegration techniques. The degree of integration and nonlinearity of both series are found to vary considerably across states, whilst the fractional cointegration analysis suggests that a long-run relationship exists between them ...

    2015| Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Juncal Cunado, Luis A. Gil-Alana, Rangan Gupta
  • SOEPpapers 757 / 2015

    Demand and Selection Effects in Supplemental Health Insurance in Germany

    This paper empirically assesses the selection effects and determinants of the demand for supple-mental health insurance that covers hospital and dental benefits in Germany. Our representative dataset provides doctor-diagnosed indicators of the individual’s health status, risk attitude, demand for medical services and insurance purchases in other lines of insurance as well as rich demographic and socioeconomic ...

    2015| Renate Lange, Jörg Schiller, Petra Steinorth
  • DIW Roundup 65 / 2015

    Health Consequences of Childhood and Adolescence Shocks: Is There a "Critical Period"?

    Individual health is not only determined by genetic factors, but also by negative or positive events during the life course. For example, children exposed to natural disasters or violent conflicts are more likely to have poor health as adults. Positiveexternal factors, such as nutritional programs, will, instead, improve individual health in the long-term. In turn, health can directly affect education ...

    2015| Valeria Groppo
  • SOEPpapers 749 / 2015

    Mozart or Pelé? The Effects of Teenagers' Participation in Music and Sports

    Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents’ leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children from more highly educated families, doing sports improves subjective health. For educational outcomes, doing ...

    2015| Charlotte Cabane, Adrian Hille, Michael Lechner
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 14/15 / 2015

    Income and Assets of Care Households in Germany

    In 2013, some 2.6 million people received long-term care benefits. The number of benefit recipients has risen by 45 percent since 1998. A good 70 percent of benefit recipients, roughly 1.7 million people, are cared for at home and nearly 30 percent in a nursing facility. There are also a significant number of individuals who are dependent on care but not to such an extent that they are entitled to ...

    2015| Johannes Geyer
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 14/15 / 2015

    Long-Term Home Care Recipients Are Often Women Who Live Alone: Six Questions to Johannes Geyer

    2015
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