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This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level...
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This paper examines how parental unemployment affects the transition to postsecondary education in different institutional contexts. Drawing on theoretical perspectives in intergenerational mobility research and sociology of higher education, we estimate the extent to which these...
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children. Using data for Germany, we find that an economic downturn, coupled with increased unemployment, affects children …
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This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into the investment decision. Our model both differentiates between general and specific training and accounts for the role of workers and firms in training decisions. Workers with...
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compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … are learned earlier in Germany and additional years of schooling are not effective anymore. This is done by also … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …
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risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed …
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secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific. -- Migration ; education ; human capital ; Germany ; tracking …
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We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...
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carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment: between 2001 and 2007, the academic-track high school … (Gymnasium) was reduced by one year in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the overall curriculum unchanged. To investigate …
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mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we …
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