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Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined?: Evidence from British Immigrants
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...
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In Vino Pecunia?: The Association between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle." Using individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we...
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Der Einfluss unbeobachteter Heterogenität auf kompensatorische Lohndifferentiale und den Wert eines statistischen Lebens: eine mikroökonometrische Parallelanalyse mit IABS und SOEP...
Schaffner, Sandra; Spengler, Hannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
Die Arbeit untersucht mittels IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe, Sozioökonomischem Panel und Informationen über tödliche Arbeitsunfälle die Existenz kompensatorischer Lohndifferentiale zur Bestimmung desWertes eines statistischen Lebens (WSL) in Deutschland. Querschnittsregressionen auf Basis...
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
adaptation to the attitudes of the majority population closes the immigrant-native gap in risk proclivity, while stronger …
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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed
Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...
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Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years
Cawley, John; Spieß, C. Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that … obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the … daily living, motor skills, and social skills) as a function of various measures of weight (including BMI and obesity status …
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Using Job Changes to Evaluate the Bias of the Value of a Statistical Life
Spengler, Hannes; Schaffner, Sandra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This paper presents a new approach to obtain unbiased estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) with labor market data. Investigating job changes, we combine the advantages of recent panel studies, which allow to control for unobserved heterogeneity of workers, and conventional...
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Gütesiegel als neues Instrument der Qualitätssicherung von Humandienstleistungen: Gründe, Anforderungen und Umsetzungsüberlegungen am Beispiel von Kindertageseinrichtungen
Spieß, Katharina; Tietze, Wolfgang - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
Although there is general consensus that the quality of human services has to be regulated, there is only limited discussion regarding the fundamental nature of these regulations and how they might in turn be altered to produce better services. This paper focuses on one human service in...
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Intervieweffekte bei der Erhebung des Körpergewichts: die Qualität von umfragebasierten Gewichtsangaben
Kroh, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
While surveying measured weight is widely unpractical in national samples, self-reported weight is a simple and inexpensive method of collecting data. This paper deals with data quality of reported body weight in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Previous research shows that data on...
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The Subjective Costs of Health Losses Due to Chronic Diseases: An Alternative Model for Monetary Appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...
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