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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...

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Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …

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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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O Brother, Where Art Thou?: The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

In most industrialized countries, more people than ever are having to cope with the burden of caring for elderly parents. This paper formulates a model to explain how parental care responsibilities and family structure interact in affecting children's mobility characteristics. A key insight we...

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Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network and derive hypotheses from it. For our empirical...

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Gender, Transnational Networks and Remittances: Evidence from Germany

Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Remittances from Germany are substantial. Cross-border transfers to family and friendship networks outside Germany are not only made by foreigners. Many naturalized migrants send money home as well. Here, we focus on international networks and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the...

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Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany

Sierminska, Eva M.; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of pooled and equally shared resources among all household members. Yet the lack of individual-level data hampers the distribution of income and wealth within the household context....

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Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidising Market-Contracted Household Work

Brück, Tilman; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and...

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Nobody to Play with?: The Implications of Leisure Coordination

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Osberg, Lars - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

We hypothesize that an individual's time use choices are contingent on the time use choices of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household. We develop a model of time use, and demonstrate that its...

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Credit for What?: Informal Credit as a Coping Strategy of Market Women in Northern Ghana

Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper explores the use of informal credit as a strategy for managing risks by market women in northern Ghana. A broad concept of the costs of risk management strategies is introduced and encompasses both a time and monetary dimension. Based on qualitative data, the analysis reveals that...

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