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Spite and cognitive skills in preschoolers

Bügelmayer, Elisabeth; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2011

Although spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation, there is little evidence on spiteful behavior and its determinants in children. We investigate the relationship between children's cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214...

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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform

Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014

traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …

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The bigger the children, the bigger the worries : are preschoolers and adolescents affected differently by family instability with regard to non-cognitive skills?

Peter, Frauke; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2011 - This version: 13 March 2011

Substantial research on the relationship between family structures and child outcomes represents a considerable part of the literature. However, family structure provides a rather static view of the relationship of children's living arrangements and their well-being, revealing hardly anything...

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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive skills during adolescence and young adulthood

Anger, Silke - 2012

correlations of cognitive skills in Germany are roughly the same or slightly stronger than those found by previous studies for … Germany seem to be considerably higher than the ones found for the U.S.. Hence, skill transmission does not seem to be able to …

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The returns to cognitive abilities and personality traits in Germany

Heineck, Guido; Anger, Silke - 2008

earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a …

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Maternal life satisfaction and child development from toddlerhood to adolescence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2023

In this paper we analyse the association between maternal well-being and child development at diﬀerent ages. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) which captures maternal life satisfaction and numerous cognitive and non-cognitive child development outcomes. We identify a...

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