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Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior: Evidence from parental health shocks

Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Westermaier, Franz - 2011

In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for … the development of these non-cognitive characteristics. However, we observe that paternal health shocks cause children to …

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Education, Gender and Earnings in France and Germany: Level and Dispersion Effects

Lauer, Charlotte - 2004

This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen here enables to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but also on their dispersion, taking gender-specific sample selectivity into account. The...

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Earnings Prospects for People with Migration Background in Germany

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - 2007

Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using citizenship to analyze economic issues of immigration may be problematic for two reasons. On the one hand, a quite substantial share of persons with migration background is...

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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...

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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Coneus, Katja - 2007

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Double Standards in Educational Standards: Are Disadvantaged Students Being Graded More Leniently?

Himmler, Oliver; Schwager, Robert - 2007

A simple model of decentralised graduation standards is presented. It is shown that a school whose students are … disadvantaged on the labour market applies less demanding standards because such students have less incentives to graduate. The … model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level data. Since students in the Netherlands have to participate both in …

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Noncognitive Skills, Internet Use and Educational Dropout

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2008

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2006 we analyze the determinants and labor market effects of educational dropout. In addition to classical variables like family background and occupation, we examine noncognitive skills and Internet use. Noncognitive skills...

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Educational Effects of Early or Later Secondary School Tracking in Germany

Mühlenweg, Andrea Maria - 2007

This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade. Regression results indicate that, estimated on the mean, there are no negative effects...

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Pollution exposure and infant health: Evidence from Germany

Coneus, Katja; Spieß, Christa Katharina - 2010

, our results further support the advice to parents of young children not to smoke. …This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …

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