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Birth weight and family status revisited: evidence from Austrian register data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2011

) studies, we find that the significantly positive impact of family status on children's health outcomes disappears if we …

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Private expenditures for children in Austria - Variations in results applying different models

Buchegger, Reiner; Wüger, Michael - 2004

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Smoking, discount rates, and returns to education

Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2000

Individual time preference determines schooling enrolment. Moreover, smoking behavior in early ages has been shown to be highly related to time preference rates. Accordingly, we use smoking at age 16 as an instrument for schooling in order to cope with ability bias in a returns to education...

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The Effect of Health on Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents

Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2011

persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …

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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...

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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes

Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

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Peer effects in Austrian schools

Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2005

students’ academic outcomes. We used PISA 2000 data to estimate peer effects for 15 and 16 year old students. The estimations …, quantile regressions suggest peer effects to be asymmetric in favor of low-ability students, meaning that students with lower …

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The effects of school entry laws on educational attainment and starting wages in an early tracking system

Zweimüller, Martina - 2013

find a wage penalty of 1.1-2.0 percent for students born in August (the youngest) compared to students born in September …. Younger students are more likely to pursue an apprenticeship and less likely to have higher education. After five years of …

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Who is on the rise in Austria: Wage mobility and mobility risk

Raferzeder, Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2004

In this paper we investigate earnings mobility in Austria from the angle of individual persons: earnings mobility over time has two aspects: positional changes and the volatility of earnings over time. Whereas the further is a positive outcome, more volatility as such can be seen as negative. We...

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Causal effect of income on health: Investigating two closely related policy reforms in Austria

Schnalzenberger, Mario - 2011

I investigate the effect of income on mortality of the pensioners, com- paring three subsequent policy periods in … reduction in income was removed in the third policy period. These two reforms allow a causal identification of the effect of in …

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