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Smoke Signals: The Intergenerational Transmission of Smoking Behavior

Bantle, Christian; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

In this paper, we investigate the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior from parents to their children using data from the German Socio- Economic Panel, surveyed in 1999 including 813 youths aged 16 through 19. We find strong evidence, that parental smoking significantly increases...

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The Intergeneratinal Transmission of Poverty in Industrialized Countries

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper reviews research about the intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries. In order to make our survey manageable, we restrict attention to studies that consider the relationship between parental poverty (or 'income') during childhood and later-life outcomes; we...

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The Preadult Origins of Post-Materialism: A Longitudinal Sibling Study

Kroh, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Using a research design that traces siblings' preferences for postmaterialistic values in Germany over two decades, this paper provides new evidence on the origins of value preferences. Focusing on Inglehart's thesis of value change, we test the combined socialization and scarcity hypothesis...

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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

conflict-affected countries. This module will enable researchers to address specific violence-related issues comparatively … survey designs in conflict-affected areas. We review existing conflict- and violence-related questionnaires, with a special … in order to deepen the understanding of the nature of violent conflict and the channels whereby conflict and violence …

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Economic Costs of Mass Violent Conflicts: Final Report for the Small Arms Survey, Geneva, Switzerland

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Drautzburg, Thorsten; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung)

This paper provides a critical analysis of the possible methods, data sources and the existing results of the field of 'the economic costs of mass violent conflict' by identifying strengths and weaknesses of the existing literature. The report evaluates content, methods, and data sources of the...

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The Role of Visible Wealth for Deprivation

Bertram-Hümmer, Veronika; Baliki, Ghassan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

Motivated by the lack of literature linking actual to perceived relative deprivation, this paper assesses the role of visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on household survey data that includes unique information...

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Top down or Bottom Up? A Cross-National Study of Vertical Occupational Sex Segregation in Twelve European Countries

Schäfer, Andrea; Tucci, Ingrid; Gottschall, Karin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Starting with a comparative assessment of different welfare regimes and political economies from the perspective of gender awareness and "pro-women" policies, this paper identifies the determinants of cross-national variation in women's chances of being in a high-status occupation in twelve West...

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Are Interregional Wage Differentials in Russia Compensative?

Oshchepkov, Aleksey - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Interregional differentials in nominal wages in the Russian Federation are huge compared to other countries. Using the NOBUS micro-data and a methodology based on the estimation of the wage equation augmented by aggregate regional characteristics, we show that these differentials have a...

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Global Integration of Central and Eastern European Financial Markets: The Role of Economic Sentiments

Belke, Ansgar; Beckmann, Joscha; Kühl, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

This paper examines the importance of different economic sentiments, e.g. consumer moods, for the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) during the transition process. We first analyze the importance of economic confidence with respect to the CEEC's financial markets. Since the...

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Back on Track?: Savings Puzzles in EU-Accession Countries

Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

After the collapse in the early years of transition, saving rates in many EU-accession countries have recovered and remained stable during recent years. This may indicate that the transformation process has come to an end with regard to savings. Is saving behaviour in EU-accession countries now...

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