In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior …. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of … health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify … effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health shocks in …

In this study, I analyze the relationship between IT use and wages in West Germany in 1998/99. I use two estimation … changes in workplaces that have occurred in recent decades, IT users would be worse off in terms of wages had they not started …

In this paper we analyze the impact of information technology and organizational changes on wages using individual … level data for 1998/1999. The average impact of IT use on wages turns out to be five to six percent, however, the effects … organizational changes in form of higher wages. Outsourcing additionally requires a high qualification of employees in order to …

. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in …

-run delay in return to work, which might rationalize a negative causal health effect. Breaking down the results by mothers' pre …-birth health status suggests that the higher incidence of long-term sickness absence among the treated may be explained by the fact … that the reform has facilitated re-entry of a negative health selection into the labor market. …

Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … overqualification and wages in a causal way, since individuals choosing these subjects might differ systematically in unobserved … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …