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Political Participation / National Election Study

The chapter gives an overview of recent developments within participation and electoral research, and discusses the current state of affairs with regard to data provision and access. It concludes with several recommendations: (a) to tag a small number of key political variables as constant elements of the future question programmes of both the ALLBUS and the GSOEP, thereby creating substantial amounts ...

The Influence of Life-Cycle Events on Partisanship: Long-term Evidence from The German Socio-Economic Panel

Shaky attachments: Individual-level stability and change of partisanship among West German voters, 1984 - 2001

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 ...

Insurance State and the Number of Doctor Visits. A Latent Class Panel Approach with German Data

Reducing the Number of Doctor Visits by Supply-Side Regulations

We analyze the effect of the introduction of a fixed budget for the ambulatory care sector in 1993, the introduction of individual practice budgets in 1997, and the tightening of the budget in real terms thereafter on the lengths of treatments of patients using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel over the period from 1985 to 2006. With a random effects-type two-part model in a difference-in-differences ...

Risk aversion, health behaviour, and adverse selection in the German market for private supplementary health insurance

Direct evidence of risk aversion as a source of advantageous selection in health insurance

Using the self-stated degree of risk aversion regarding health from the GSOEP we find some evidence for risk aversion being a source of advantageous selection. Risk averse men more often procure supplementary insurance for hospital visits despite needing the additional coverage less.

Why are the Unemployed in Worse Health? The Causal Effect of Unemployment on Health

We analyse the effect of unemployment on health using information from the German Socio-Economic Panel of the years 1991–2008. To establish a causal effect we rely on fixed-effects methods and plant closures as exogenous entries into unemployment. Although unemployment is negatively correlated with health, we do not find a negative effect of unemployment due to plant closure on health across several ...

Practice budgets and the patient mix of physicians - The effect of a remuneration system reform on health care utilisation

This study analyses the effect of a change in the remuneration system for physicians on the treatment lengths as measured by the number of doctor visits using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel over the period 1995-2002. Specifically, I analyse the introduction of a remuneration cap (so called practice budgets) for physicians who treat publicly insured patients in 1997. I find evidence that ...