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Thesis
Title:
Four essays on the socio-economic causes and consequences of individual health as well as public health crises
Other titles:
Übersetzung des Haupttitels: Vier Aufsätze zu den sozioökonomischen Ursachen und Folgen der individuellen Gesundheit sowie der öffentlichen Gesundheitskrisen
University thesis:
Dissertation, Universität Potsdam, 2021
Footnote:
Description:
Inequalities in health are a prevalent feature of societies. And as societies, we condemn inequalities that are rooted in immutable circumstances such as gender, race, and parental background. Consequently, policy makers are interested in measuring and understanding the causes of health inequalities rooted in circumstances. However, identifying causal estimates of these relationships is very ambitious for reasons such as the presence of confounders or measurement error in the data. This thesis contributes to this ambitious endeavour by addressing these challenges in four chapters. In the first Chapter, I use 25 years of rich health information to describe three features of intergenerational health mobility in Germany. First, we describe the joint permanent health distribution of the parents and their children. A ten percentile increase in parental permanent health is associated with a 2.3 percentile increase in their child’s health. Second, a percentile point increase in permanent health ranks is associated with a 0.8% to 1.4% ...