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Mother's Autonomy and Child Welfare: A New Measure and Some New Evidence

Chakraborty, Tanika; De, Prabal K. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

We construct a new, direct measure of female autonomy in household decision-making by creating an index from the … principal components of a variety of household variables on which mother of a child takes decision. We then examine its impacts … on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in …

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Short Term Living Conditions and Long Term Prospects of Immigrant Children in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called ”ethnic Germans” who migrated from eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German concept of ethnicity and citizenship, the latter are...

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Are Interregional Wage Differentials in Russia Compensative?

Oshchepkov, Aleksey - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Interregional differentials in nominal wages in the Russian Federation are huge compared to other countries. Using the NOBUS micro-data and a methodology based on the estimation of the wage equation augmented by aggregate regional characteristics, we show that these differentials have a...

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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The Cost of Climate Change to the German Fruit Vegetation Sector

Kemfert, Claudia; Kremers, Hans - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

This paper applies the concept of damage coefficients introduced in Houba and Kremers (2008) to provide an estimate of the cost of climate change - in particular the cost of changes in mean regional temperature and precipitation - to the fruit vegetation sector. We concentrate on the production...

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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Comparing the Determinants of Concern about Terrorism and Crime

Brück, Tilman; Müller, Cathérine - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Both crime and terrorism impose costs onto society through the channels of fear and worry. Identifying and targeting groups which are especially affected by worries might be one way to reduce the total costs of these two types of insecurity. However, compared to the drivers of the fear of crime,...

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Legacy from the Transition?: Alcohol Consumption by Young Adults in Ukraine

Avdeenko, Alexandra; Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

patterns of alcohol consumption among young adults. We find that financial strain in the household increases the probability of …

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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks on an 11-point scale, we find...

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Gerechtigkeitsprobleme im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Besteuerung, wohlfahrtsstaatliche Transfers und die Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens

Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Jürgen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

The article discusses the conflict of goals between fair compensation for performance and equitable support based on need in modern welfare states, which is a subject of controversy in various disciplines. It answers the question of the extent to which this policy problem of modern welfare...

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