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The Formation of Prosociality : Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment

Kosse, Fabian - 2018

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...

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The Contribution of Pharmaceutical Innovation to Longevity Growth in Germany and France

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2014

-adjusted mortality rates of residents of Germany, using longitudinal, annual, state-level data during the period 2000-2007. The estimates …-adjusted cancer mortality rates of residents of France, using longitudinal, annual, cancer-site-level data during the period 2002 … mortality rates, and may have accounted for as much as half of the decline …

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Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books

Hills, Thomas - 2017

measures where available. The relationship with life expectancy is significant and positive. Infant mortality correlates …

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Total Instructional Time Exposure and Student Achievement : An Extreme Bounds Analysis Based on German State-Level Variation

Mandel, Philipp - 2011

Using pooled data on instructional time and student performance by subject, our study finds evidence for the school inputs-student achievement relationship for German states. This finding is robust both to the inclusion of state fixed effects and in an extensive extreme bounds analysis. It...

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Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance

Cornelissen, Thomas - 2018

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany by exploiting the exogenous variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large staggered expansion across municipalities. Drawing on novel administrative data from...

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Why Go to France or Germany, if You Could as Well Go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to Four Major OECD Countries

Geis, Wido - 2008

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

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What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education, and tertiary degree. Neither individual and family background nor labor market characteristics appear...

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Why Does Height Matter for Educational Attainment? Evidence from German Pre-Teen Children

Cinnirella, Francesco; Piopiunik, Marc; Winter, Joachim K. - 2021

Several studies have shown that body height is positively associated with educational attainment. In this paper, we investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are more likely to enroll in ‘Gymnasium’, the most...

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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Dohmen, Thomas J.; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2021

This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...

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