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Informed decision making in medicine, defined as basing one’s decision on the best current medical evidence, requires both informed physicians and informed patients. In cancer screening, however, studies document that these prerequisites are not yet met. Many physicians do not know or understand the medical evidence behind screening tests, do not adequately counsel (asymptomatic) people on screening, ...
In:
PLOS ONE
12 (2017), 8,
| Odette Wegwarth, Gert G. Wagner, Gerd Gigerenzer
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2005,
(IZA DP No. 1619)
| Chris M. Wilson, Andrew J. Oswald
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In times of ageing baby boomer cohorts and increasing regional disparities, residential choice in later life is important regarding family relations and the provision of social services. In this study, a new typology of later life moves is developed based on observed patterns and characteristics of residential changes. For this purpose, the German Socio-Economic Panel data has been linked to uniquely ...
In:
Comparative Population Studies
42 (2017), 3-24
| Tim Winke
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To assess the impact of segregation a better understanding is required why minorities and natives decide to move closer to ethnic peers. This study investigates the drivers for ethnic residential clustering from a household perspective. For this, household panel data for Germany is linked to small-scale information on the share of co-ethnic neighbours and to the number of regional housing offers and ...
In:
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
44 (2018), 11, 1932-1953
| Tim Winke
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In:
Franz Haslinger, Oliver Stönner-Venkatarama ,
Aspects of Distribution of Income
Marburg: Metropolis Verlag
209-222
| Olaf Winkelhake, Jürgen John
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In:
Konjunkturpolitik
41 (1995), 4, 293-307
| Liliana Winkelmann, Rainer Winkelmann
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London:
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR),
1995,
(CEPR Discussion Paper No. 1093)
| Liliana Winkelmann, Rainer Winkelmann
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This paper tests for the importance of non-pecuniary costs of unemployment using a longitudinal data-set on life-satisfaction of working-age men in Germany. We show that unemployment has a large detrimental effect on satisfaction after individual specific fixed effects are controlled for. The non-pecuniary effect is much larger than the effect that stems from the associated loss of income.
In:
Economica
65 (1998), 257, 1-15
| Liliana Winkelmann, Rainer Winkelmann
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In:
Journal of Positive Psychology
3 (2008), 4, 266-275
| Liliana Winkelmann, Rainer Winkelmann
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München:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät,
1993,
(Discussion Paper No. 93-26)
| Rainer Winkelmann