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The Effect of Health and Employment Risks on Precautionary Savings

This paper extends the idea of using ex-ante risk measures in a model of precautionary savings by explicitly simulating future net-income risks. The uncertainty measure takes into account the interdependency of labour market status and health. The model is estimated for prime age males using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study for years 2001-2007. The empirical analysis is conducted using a measure ...

Comparing the Predictive Power of Subjective and Objective Health Indicators: Changes in Hand Grip Strength and Overall Satisfaction with Life as Predictors of Mortality

Self-reported measures of health are generally treated as weak measures of respondents' objective health status. On the other hand, most surveys use self-reported health to measure health status and to determine the effects of a range of other socio-economic characteristics of the local environment on individual health. It is therefore of interest to the public health research community to verify the ...

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 ...

Anmerkungen zur Zukunft der Sozialpolitik

Die deutsche Sozialpolitik steht vor enormen Herausforderungen. Die gesetzlichen Renten-, Kranken- und Pflegeversicherungen stehen nicht zuletzt wegen des absehbar starken demographischen Wandels unter Druck. In Zukunft werden immer mehr Leistungsempfängern immer weniger Beitragszahler gegenüber stehen. Die Politik ist gefordert, einem drohenden Generationenkonflikt entgegenzuwirken. In diesem Beitrag ...

Health-Related Life Cycle Risks and Public Insurance

This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance schemes. I rely on a dynamic programming ...

First Do No Harm. Then Do Not Cheat: DRG Upcoding in German Neonatology

Since 2003 German hospitals are reimbursed according to diagnosis related groups (DRGs). Patient classification in neonatology is based inter alia on birth weight, with substantial discontinuities in reimbursement at eight different thresholds. These discontinuities create strong incentives to upcode preterm infants into classes of lower birth weight. Using data from the German birth statistics 1996 ...

The Effect of Unemployment on the Mental Health of Spouses: Evidence from Plant Closures in Germany

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference-in-difference and matching based on ...

Menschen mit hohen Einkommen leben länger

Personen aus wohlhabenden Haushalten haben in Deutschland im Alter von 65 Jahren eine höhere Lebenserwartung als Personen mit niedrigen Einkommen. Bei Männern macht diese Differenz fünf Jahre, bei Frauen dreieinhalb Jahre aus. Die Analyse auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) legt die Interpretation nahe, dass die geringere Lebenserwartung von Frauen in Haushalten mit niedrigen Einkommen ...

Lebenserwartung von Menschen mit geringen Einkommen erhöhen: Fünf Fragen an Martin Kroh

Ungesunde Verhältnisse? Eine Längsschnittanalyse zur Gesundheit von Kindern in zusammen- und getrenntlebenden Familien

Familien schaffen Gesundheit, aber der Wandel familiärer Strukturen wird für viele negative gesundheitliche Veränderungen in der Bevölkerung verantwortlich gemacht. Wie entwickelt sich die Gesundheit von jüngeren Kindern heute in Deutschland, wenn Eltern zusammen oder getrennt leben? Anhand der aktuellen Daten des sozio-ökonomischen Panels können wir zeigen, dass Kinder in traditionellen Ehen nicht ...