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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

influencing youth smoking outside from the family context. Thus policies targeted at reducing juvenile smoking may fail, if …

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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …

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A Lost Generation? Long Term Socioeconomic Outcomes in Orphans

Bozzoli, Carlos - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

" (time and material support),family background, and literacy and numeracy test scores. I find that although preexisting …

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Who Does What in a Household after Genocide?: Evidence from Rwanda

Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of casualties were adult males. The paper explores two...

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Mortality and Survivors' Consumption

Grimm, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

In developing countries illness shocks can have a severe impact on household income. Few studies have so fare examined the effects of mortality. The major difference between illness and mortality shocks is that a death of a household member does not only induce direct costs such as medical and...

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Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating

Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

mating plays an important role. On average about 40-50 percent of the covariancebetween parents' and own permanent family …

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Does Intermarriage Pay Off?: A Panel Data Analysis

Nottmeyer, Olga - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...

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Measuring State Dependence in Individual Poverty Status: Are there Feedback Effects to Employment Decisions and Household Composition?

Biewen, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

Using a sample of prime-aged men from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper examines the effects of past poverty experience on future poverty status, future employment status and household composition. The empirical results suggest that even after controlling for observed and...

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Who Marries Differently-Aged Spouses?: Earnings, Ability and Appearance

Mansour, Hani; McKinnish, Terra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

In direct contrast to conventional wisdom and most economic models of gender differences in age of marriage, we present robust evidence that men and women who are married to differently-aged spouses are negatively selected. Earnings analysis of married couples in the 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000...

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Extreme Weather Events and Child Height: Evidence from Mongolia

Groppo, Valeria; Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

We provide new evidence on the impact of one severe weather shock on child height in Mongolia. Our focus is on the extremely harsh winter - locally referred to as dzud - of 2009/10, which caused more than 23 percent of the national livestock to perish. This resulted in a food insecurity...

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