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, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …
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representative sample of 3,240 grandparents who are heads of households, we estimate the effect of taking in a grandchild on a … grandparent’s labor force participation and hours worked. We estimate ordinary and two-stage models that distinguishing between … grandparents living only with grandchildren (skipped generation families) and those who also have taken in their own children …
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, the one provided by grandparents. Empirically, assessing the effect of grandparental childcare is not an easy task due to … preferences as arising from the non-compliance of mothers to the availability of grandparents and from preferences of grandparents …
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This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of …
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We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual data records from the Danish Twin Registry covering births...
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information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …
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The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...
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We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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We analyze the effects of regional structures on females’ willingness to work as well as on the probability that non-employed women who are willing to work actually will engage in job search. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German...
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We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females’ willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Results of a bivariate...
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