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diversity suggests positive effects of gender diverse boards on corporate governance and even firm performance. The mechanism …
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Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these home alone children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration...
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This paper examines the impact of parental investments on the development of cognitive, mental and emotional skills … characteristics of children. Third, we examine the skill development for girls and boys separately, as well as for children who were …
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In dieser Studie werden anhand einer experimentellen Datenerhebung im Rahmen der deutschen Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) mögliche Determinanten des Belohnungsaufschubs im Alter von fünf bis sechs Jahren untersucht (im Folgenden als "Geduld bei Kindern" bezeichnet)....
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life adversity influences the development of cognitive and noncognitive skills as well as school and labour market outcomes …
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Nirgends sonst im ökonomischen Handeln fallen Kosten und Nutzen im Zeitablauf und aufgeteilt nach Investoren und Nutznießern so eklatant auseinander wie bei Bildungsinvestitionen. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird argumentiert, dass in der sozialen Realität die Bildungsungleichheit im...
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and that differences in basic abilities increase during development. Self-productivity rises in the developmental process … presumably a major reason for the evolution of inequality in human development. …
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This paper investigates the development of basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities from infancy to …
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The prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they can lead directly to adult physical health...
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