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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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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda
Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different … genocide on fertility, with a strong replacement effect for lost children. Having lost siblings reduces fertility only in the … short term. Most interesting is the continued importance of the institution of marriage in determining fertility and in …
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A Lost Generation? Long Term Socioeconomic Outcomes in Orphans
Bozzoli, Carlos - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
main outcomes of young adults, namely labor market attachment and fertility, and its relation to orphanhood status. The … key outcomes (e.g. schooling, work, fertility outcomes). It also provides information on so-called "parental investments … educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting "imprint" in terms of employment and fertility patterns. …
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Family and Labor Market Choices: Requirements to Guide Effective Evidence-Based Policy
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty …
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The Impact of Children on Female Earnings in Britain
Viitanen, Tarja K. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
participation and fertility. The wage differential between women without children and women with children is estimated to range … differential reduces to 16%-18% instrumenting participation and fertility, however, using the estimates obtained from the double …
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Gender-Specific Effects of Unemployment on Family Formation: A Cross-National Perspective
Schmitt, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence...
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Health-Related Life Cycle Risks and Public Insurance
Kemptner, Daniel - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a health process, the interaction between health and employment...
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Poverty and Transitions in Health
Adena, Maja; Myck, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes...
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The Earnings Returns to Graduating with Honors: Evidence from Law Graduates
Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Mathias; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent earnings. While a rich body of literature has focused on estimating returns to human capital, few studies have analyzed returns at the very top of the education distribution. We highlight the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096539
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Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data
Wunder, Christoph; Wiencierz, Andrea; Schwarze, Johannes; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This paper applies semiparametric regression models using penalized splines to investigate the profile of well-being over the life span. Splines have the advantage that they do not require a priori assumptions about the form of the curve. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)...
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