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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …
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Screening through activation : differential effects of a youth activation programme
Hall, Caroline; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Liljeberg, Linus; … - 2017
We study the dual role of active labour market policies: First, ALMP may perform a screening role by increasing job-finding rates among individuals with good labour market prospects, already prior to programme participation. Second, actual program participation may help individuals with poor...
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Is a sorrow shared a sorrow doubled? : parental unemployment and the life satisfaction of adolescent children
Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Lücke, Christine - 2023
This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year …-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … unemployment has negative effects, while no effect of fathers' unemployment can be detected. In subgroup analyses, we do not find …
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Job insecurity and children's emancipation
Becker, Sascha O.; Bentolila, Samuel; Fernandes, Ana … - 2004
The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. We present a theoretical model predicting that higher job security of parents and lower job security of children may delay emancipation. We then provide aggregate evidence which supports this hypothesis for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402589
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Merchants of doubt : corporate political influence when expert credibility is uncertain
Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Lyon, Thomas P. - 2016
A key role of science-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is to communicate scientific knowledge to … of such NGOs and weaken their ability to influence policy. To investigate the mechanisms by which a firm can profitably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557801
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The international organization of production in the regulatory void
Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian - 2018
Over the last decades, the internationalization of the value chain has allowed firms to exploit cross-country differences in environmental and labor regulation (and enforcement) in ways that have led to a large number of NGO campaigns and consumer boycotts criticizing "unethical" practices. How...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011804120
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Local global watchdogs : trade, sourcing and the internationalization of social activism
Koenig, Pamina; Krautheim, Sebastian; Löhnert, Claudius; … - 2021
obtained from recently available data containing 102 532 campaigns by 4 343 NGOs targeting 11 429 firms from 145 countries … guide our theoretical analysis. We propose a model of global sourcing and international trade in which heterogeneous NGOs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510238
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Impatience and uncertainty : experimental decisions predict adolescents' field behavior
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2011
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of...
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On the design of education conditional cash transfer programs and non education outcomes : the case of teenage pregnancy
Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan; Maldonado, Darío - 2011
We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240855
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Health insurance coverage and risky health behaviors among young adults
Yörük, Barış K. - 2015
This paper investigates the relationship between health insurance coverage and risky health behaviors among young adults using the confidential version of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (NLSY97). Before the Affordable Care Act required all employers to provide health...
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