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life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …
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Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality,...
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yields that Germany features particularly low intergenerational mobility with respect to educational attainment. This study … investigates the development in intergenerational education mobility in Germany for the birth cohorts 1929 through 1978 and tests …
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traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous e ects. In addition to di erences between East and West Germany, we nd that male students …
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. However, this health advantage is supposed to diminish or even disappear over a relatively short period and the immigrants …' health status is converging to that of the natives. The causes for this gradient of immigrants' health are subject to an … migration can serve as an additional explanation for the declining health of immigrants, and thus aims at shedding some light on …
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This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self …-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …
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information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to …
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subjective health. For educational outcomes, doing both activities appeared to be most successful. The results are subjected to …
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Art von Service, der in Deutschland bislang nicht vorgehalten wird, notwendig (Beratung von Spezial-Erhebungen; ggf … introduced into SOEP in recent years—questions dealing with psychological concepts, physical health measures (grip strength …
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Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our results indicate no consistent patterns for …
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