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Refereed essays Web of Science
In the fight against antibiotic resistance, reducing antibiotic consumption while preserving healthcare quality presents a critical health policy challenge. We investigate the role of practice styles in patients’ antibiotic intake using exogenous variation in patient-physician assignment. Practice style heterogeneity explains 49% of the differences in overall antibiotic use and 83% of the differences ...
In:
Journal of Human Resources
(2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2024-05-08]
| Shan Huang, Hannes Ullrich
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) serves a global research community by providing representative annual longitudinal data of respondents living in private households in Germany. The dataset offers a valuable life course panorama, encompassing living conditions, socioeconomic status, familial connections, personality traits, values, preferences, health, and well-being. To amplify research opportunities ...
In:
PloS one
18 (2023), 11, e0294896, 23 S.
| Philipp D. Koellinger, Aysu Okbay, Hyeokmoon Kweon, Annemarie Schweinert, Richard Karlsson Linnér, Jan Goebel, David Richter, Lisa Reiber, Bettina Maria Zweck, Daniel W. Belsky, Pietro Biroli, Rui Mata, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob, K. Paige Harden, Gert G. Wagner, Ralph Hertwig
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Externe Monographien
Background The first wave of the Corona Monitoring Nationwide (RKI-SOEP) Study drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel proved a low pre-vaccine SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in the German adult population of 2.1%.Methods In this second wave of the study (RKI-SOEP-2, November 2021-March 2022), we used combined serological and self-reported data on infection and vaccination to estimate the prevalence ...
Berlin:
RKI,
2023,
21 S.
(medRxiv Preprint)
| Elisabetta Mercuri, Lorenz Schmid, Christina Poethko-Müller, Martin Schlaud, Cânâ Kußmaul, Ana Ordonez-Cruickshank, Sebastian Haller, Ute Rexroth, Osamah Hamouda, Lars Schaade, Lothar H. Wieler, Antje Gößwald, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Markus M. Grabka, Sabine Zinn, Hans W. Steinhauer (et al.)
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Externe Monographien
This paper explores the effect of COVID-19 infection rates on individuals’ risk preferences using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Findings show that the spread of COVID-19 does not significantly alter risk preferences. While we do find that individuals with prior cardiovascular diseases reduce their preference for risk-taking, this zero effect is remarkably stable across subgroups of the population. ...
Rochester :
SSRN,
2024,
42 S.
| Daniel Graeber, Ulrich Schmidt, Carsten Schröder, Johannes Seebauer
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Research Project
We propose to use new survey data to investigate factors that explain whether and why individuals either did not get a COVID-19 vaccine shot or chose to delay getting one. While we examine hesitancy about the COVID-19 vaccine, our study will yield broader insights. Our project has many strengths. In fifteen countries, we will use internationally-harmonized data on individual vaccination behavior...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Weitere externe Aufsätze
This chapter provides an overview of the German long-term care insurance. We document care needs and wellbeing of the elderly population. Moreover, we provide a detailed description of the German long-term care institutions (sources of finance and types of benefits), the professional care work force, and informal caregivers. Finally, we document expenditures on long-term care and estimate the value ...
In:
Jonathan Gruber, Kathleen McGarry (Eds.) ,
Long-Term Care around the World
Chicago : University of Chicago press
S. 141-176
| Johannes Geyer, Axel Börsch- Supan, Peter Haan, Elsa Perdrix
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Background: Populations experiencing precarity face heightened mental health inequities, especially during crises. In this regard, it is established that socio-economic status (SES) and social isolation are critical factors influencing mental health outcomes, which interact syndemically. Understanding their interrelated mechanisms is crucial for developing effective public health strategies to support ...
In:
SSM - Population Health
31 (2025), 101822, 16 S.
| Victoria Touzel, Doreen Reifegerste, Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Louise Biddle
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Weitere externe Aufsätze
This chapter provides the first extensive overview of mental health in Germany since reunification. Relying on data from the Socio-Economic Panel, an annual, representative panel study running since 1984 (in East Germany since 1990), this chapter reports the prevalence of mental health conditions in West and East Germany across 30 years. Specifically, the data provides insights into life satisfaction, ...
In:
Ayline Heller, Peter Schmidt (Eds.) ,
Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall : German Unification and Transformation Research
London : Routledge
S. 25-51
| Theresa M. Entringer, Laura Buchinger, Lisa Güttschow, Tillman Schenk
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the incidence of severe health shocks at the workplace level. Using rich linked employer-employee data from Germany and an instrumental variable leveraging policy variation, I show that firms with a higher concentration of foreign workers experience lower rates of long-term sickness among their employees. Decomposing the rates by gender and worker...
04.12.2024| Izabela Wnuk-Soares
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Receiving a formal diagnosis for a depressive disorder is a prerequisite for getting treatment, yet the illness inherently complicates care-seeking. Thus, understanding the process from depression symptoms to diagnosis is crucial. Aims: This study aims to disentangle (1) risk factors for depression symptoms from (2) facilitators and barriers to receiving a diagnosis after experiencing depression symptoms. ...
In:
The International Journal of Social Psychiatry
(2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2024-12-26]
| Barabra Stacherl, Theresa Entringer