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The German Child Benefit ("Kindergeld") is paid to legal guardians of children as a cash benefit. This study employs exogenous variations in the amount of child benefit received by households to investigate the extent to which these various changes have translated into an improvement in the...
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Mit dem im Zuge der Hartz IV-Reform 2005 eingeführten Kinderzuschlag sollte vermieden werden, dass Familien von ALG II und Sozialgeld abhängig werden, deren Einkommen zwar zur Deckung des elterlichen minimalen Lebensstandards, nicht aber für das Existenzminimum des Kindes bzw. der Kinder...
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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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weiblichen Erwerbsmustern in Deutschland interpretiert. …
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years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …
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Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our results indicate no consistent patterns for …
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Das steigende mittlere Alter bei Geburt wird in der medizinischen Forschung als wichtiger Risikofaktor für die Gesundheit der Neugeborenen erachtet, die über den Indikator Frühgeburt bestimmt werden kann. Die vorliegende Analyse eines Kollektivs von insgesamt 1391 Geburten von Müttern im...
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This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we...
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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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In the early half of the twentieth century in West Germany the male breadwinner model was dominant with men playing the …
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