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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 … effects by exploiting exogenous variation in the intensity of the shock across time and space. Results reveal that the shock … three years after the shock and, hence, likely to persist. Moreover, we explore the role of socioeconomic characteristics …

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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 population sub-groups. The authors pool three nationally representative demographic and health surveys from before and after the genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of...

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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper presents an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...

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Trick or Treat?: Maternal Involuntary Job Loss and Children's Non-cognitive Skills

Peter, Frauke H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Negative effects of job loss on adults such as considerable fall in income have long been examined. If job loss has negative consequences for adults, it may spread to their children. But potential effects on children's non-cognitive skills and the related mechanisms have been less examined. This...

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Financial Support for Families with Children and Its Trade-Offs: Balancing Redistribution and Parental Work Incentives

Myck, Michal; Kurowska, Anna; Kundera, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In the end these trade-offs determine the effectiveness of policy with respect to the material situation of families and employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of...

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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963799

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 Impact of Children on Female Earnings in Britain

Viitanen, Tarja K. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

This paper examines the impact of children on female wages in the UK using the National Child Development Study. Empirically this involves using an extension of the Roy model, which simultaneously corrects for the endogeneity of labour force participation and fertility. The wage differential...

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Parental Income and Child Health in Germany

Reinhold, Steffen; Jürges, Hendrik - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

We use newly available data from Germany to study the relationship between parental income and child health. We find a strong gradient between parental income and subjective child health as has been documented earlier in the US, Canada and the UK. The relationship in Germany is about as strong...

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The Excess Demand for Subsidized Child Care in Germany

Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

The extension of subsidized child care is currently on the top of the political agenda in Germany. In this paper the excess demand for subsidized child care slots is estimated using a partial observability model in the style of Abowd and Farber (1982). The results show that more than 50 percent...

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