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The willingness to pay for job amenities : evidence from mothers' return to work
Felfe, Christina - 2009
This study is the first to estimate mother's marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can decide whether and when to return to their guaranteed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872318
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Sports and child development
Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - 2011 - This draft: October 2011
Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children's skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375249
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Ordoliberalism, pragmatism and the Eurozone crisis : how the German tradition shaped economic policy in Europe
Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2015 - This version: May 18, 2015
extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528303
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Early child care and child development : for whom it works and why
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2012 - First version: October 2009, This version: December 2012
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688522
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Sustainability of German fiscal policy and public debt : historical and time series evidence for the period 1850-2010
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2013
default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany … Germany's public finances against the standard theoretical background using a unique database, retrieved from multiple sources … historical perception of Germany as the poster child of European public finance. Given these corresponding breaks in time series …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009709423
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Why birthright citizenship matters for immigrant children : impacts on parental educational choice
Felfe, Christina; Rainer, Helmut; Saurer, Judith - 2016
birthright citizenship in Germany caused immigrant parents to adapt their educational choices for their offspring. We employ a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521793
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Granting birthright citizenship : a door opener for immigrant children's educational participation and success
Felfe, Christina; Saurer, Judith - 2014
Does granting birthright citizenship help immigrant children integrating in the host country's educational system? We address this question using a reform of the German naturalization law in 1999 that entitled children born after January 1, 2000 with birthright citizenship. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405241
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Panel cointegration tests on the fiscal sustainability of German Laender
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014
newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388585
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Fiscal sustainability of the German Laender : time series evidence
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014
Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388609
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Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? - evidence from Germany
Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2020
Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers. We study how parliamentary representation of municipalities on the federal level influences the allocation of federal transfers to municipal governments under this type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291881