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Are Children's Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?

García-Miralles, Esteban; Gensowski, Miriam - 2022

Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills. Drawing on a large-scale survey linked to hospital records, we...

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Are Children's Socio-Emotional Skills Shaped by Parental Health Shocks?

García-Miralles, Esteban; Gensowski, Miriam - 2022

Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their children’s skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills. Drawing on a large-scale survey linked to hospital records,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078673

Let Bygones be Bygones? Socialist Regimes and Personalities in Germany

Friehe, Tim; Pannenberg, Markus; Wedow, Michael - 2015

This paper investigates the influence of political regimes on personality, using the separation of Germany into the … differences between former GDR and FRG residents regarding important attributes of personality (particularly the locus of control …, neuroticism, conscientiousness, and openness). To understand the inuence of the GDR’s socialist regime on personality, we test an …

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Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020

I study how motivation shapes own and peers’ educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I ﬁnd that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test...

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Peers Affect Personality Development

Shan, Xiaoque; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022

Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 … of peers’ extraversion, agreeableness, or neuroticism. To explain these results, we propose a simple model of personality … development under the influence of peers. Consistent with the model’s prediction, personality spillovers are concentrated in …

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Acess to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival

Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - 2013

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...

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The effect of education on marital status and partner characteristics: Evidence from the UK

Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - 2010

This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, we show that those who were required to stay...

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Droughts and Malnutrition in Africa

Fingado, Nora; Poelhekke, Steven - 2023

How costly are droughts to individuals' nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite-based vegetation index observed bi-monthly for 0.08° grids between 1982 and 2015. Across 32 African countries, conditional on individual characteristics, timing relative to growing...

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Time Preferences, Study Effort, and Academic Performance

Non, Arjan; Tempelaar, Dirk - 2015

We analyze the relation between time preferences, study effort, and academic performance among first-year business and economics students. Time preferences are measured by stated preferences for an immediate payment over larger delayed payments. Data on study efforts are derived from an...

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The Return to College: Selection Bias and Dropout Risk

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of graduating from college on lifetime earnings. Motivated by the fact that nearly half of all college students fail to earn a bachelor’s degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea is that students drop out of college mainly because...

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