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Postwar Migration in Southern Europe, 1950-2000. An Economic Analysis

The German East-West Mortality Difference: Two Crossovers Driven by Smoking

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, mortality was considerably higher in the former East Germany than in West Germany. The gap narrowed rapidly after German reunification. The convergence was particularly strong for women, to the point that Eastern women aged 50–69 now have lower mortality despite lower incomes and worse overall living conditions. Prior research has shown that lower smoking rates among ...

Care for Money? Mortality improvements, increasing intergenerational transfers, and time devoted to the elderly

Background: After the reunification of Germany, mortality among older eastern Germans converged quickly with western German levels. Simultaneously, the pension benefits of eastern Germans rose tenfold. Objective: We make use of German reunification as a natural experiment to show that, first, increasing financial transfers from the elderly to their children led to increasing reverse transfers in the ...

The impact of regional and neighbourhood deprivation on physical health in Germany: a multilevel study

Background: There is increasing evidence that individual health is at least partly determined by neighbourhood and regional factors. Mechanisms, however, remain poorly understood, and evidence from Germany is scant. This study explores whether regional as well as neighbourhood deprivation are associated with physical health and to what extent this association can be explained by specific neighbourhood ...

Using geographically referenced data on environmental exposures for public health research: a feasibility study based on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)

Background: In panel datasets information on environmental exposures is scarce. Thus, our goal was to probe the use of area-wide geographically referenced data for air pollution from an external data source in the analysis of physical health. Methods: The study population comprised SOEP respondents in 2004 merged with exposures for NO2, PM10 and O3 based on a multi-year reanalysis of the EURopean Air ...

Does the profile of income inequality matter for economic growth?

Early childhood, agency, and capability depreviation - A quantitative analysis using German socio-economic panel data

From a capability perspective early childhood is a very important, special stage in human life. It is important because functionings achieved in this early phase of life have been shown to substantially determine future capabilities. It is special because – more than in other stages of life – it depends very much on other people’s agency whether a young child has most important capabilities and can ...

Income Distribution in 14 OECD Nations, 1967-2000: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

Self-esteem across adulthood: the role of resources

It is still not well understood how and why developmental trajectories of self-esteem change, particularly in late life. We investigated the role of resources for self-esteem change across adulthood. In detail, we explored between-person differences in self-esteem levels and change in relation to resources with participants who ranged in age from 17 to 100 years. Study 1 consisted of a cross-sectional ...

The Earnings Function under Test