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Mother's Autonomy and Child Welfare: A New Measure and Some New Evidence

Chakraborty, Tanika; De, Prabal K. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy and welfare outcomes. We argue that omitted variables that may drive education and autonomy are likely to be …

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The Influence of Conflict on the Demand for Education in the Basque Region

Groot, Olaf J. de; Göksel, Idil - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

It has previously been shown that civil conflict influences many economic factors, including education, which play an … important role in development and economic growth. Previous authors working on the influence of conflict on education have … demand for education. It is theoretically shown that, under relatively general conditions, individuals living in a conflict …

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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The Cost of Climate Change to the German Fruit Vegetation Sector

Kemfert, Claudia; Kremers, Hans - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

This paper applies the concept of damage coefficients introduced in Houba and Kremers (2008) to provide an estimate of the cost of climate change - in particular the cost of changes in mean regional temperature and precipitation - to the fruit vegetation sector. We concentrate on the production...

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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Comparing the Determinants of Concern about Terrorism and Crime

Brück, Tilman; Müller, Cathérine - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Both crime and terrorism impose costs onto society through the channels of fear and worry. Identifying and targeting groups which are especially affected by worries might be one way to reduce the total costs of these two types of insecurity. However, compared to the drivers of the fear of crime,...

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Legacy from the Transition?: Alcohol Consumption by Young Adults in Ukraine

Avdeenko, Alexandra; Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The study analyses the effects of transition on the amount and patterns of alcohol consumption. We test the hypothesis of how far negative experiences induced by the collapse of the Soviet Union have led to drinking in the young generation of Ukrainians. We use data coming from the Ukrainian...

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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education. We test … offenses, portfolio choice, smoking, occupational choice, participation in sports, and migration, the paper compares the …

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Gerechtigkeitsprobleme im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Besteuerung, wohlfahrtsstaatliche Transfers und die Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens

Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Jürgen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

The article discusses the conflict of goals between fair compensation for performance and equitable support based on need in modern welfare states, which is a subject of controversy in various disciplines. It answers the question of the extent to which this policy problem of modern welfare...

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Marriage Matters: Spousal Similarity in Life Satisfaction

Schimmack, Ulrich; Lucas, Richard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Examined the concurrent and cross-lagged spousal similarity in life satisfaction over a 21-year period. Analyses were based on married couples (N = 847) in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Concurrent spousal similarity was considerably higher than one-year retest similarity, revealing...

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