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Biases in Estimates of the Smoking Wage Penalty
Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2006
Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. We … the literature to control for the past smoking behavior of individuals. 2SLS earnings estimates show that the smoking wage … penalty is reduced by as much as a third, if past smoking of individuals is controlled for. Our results also point to …
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Long run effects of universal childcare on personality traits
Bach, Maximilian; Koebe, Josefine; Peter, Frauke - 2019
Although universal childcare has become an essential tool to support child development, few economic studies analyze its effects on non-cognitive skills and little is known about causal effects on these skills in the long run. In this paper we go beyond short run analyses and examine the long...
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Center-based care and parenting activities
Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, Christa Katharina; Waights, Sevrin - 2020
We estimate effects of center-based care on parenting activities using time use data for Germany. Our estimates imply that center-based care reduces the overall time that parents spend with the enrolled child, but has only small negative effects on time spent doing activities together....
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Behavioral barriers and the socioeconomic gap in child care enrollment
Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peter, Frauke; … - 2021
Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less likely to be enrolled. We study whether reducing behavioral barriers in the application process increases enrollment in child care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany...
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Does grandparenting pay off for the next generations? Intergenerational effects of grandparental care
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021
Grandparents act as the third largest caregiver after parental care and daycare in Germany, as in many Western societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as...
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Early birds in day care: The social gradient in starting day care and children's non-cognitive skills
Peter, Frauke H.; Schober, Pia S.; Spiess, C. Katharina - 2014
In recent years, almost all children below school age in Western industrialized countries have some experience of attending day care institutions. However, the age at which children enter day care and therefore the overall time spent in day carevaries substantially. We investigate the potential...
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Information asymmetries between parents and educators in German childcare institutions
Camehl, Georg F.; Schober, Pia S.; Spieß, Christa Katharina - 2017
Economic theory predicts market failure in the market for early childhood education and care (ECEC) due to information asymmetries. We empirically investigate information asymmetries between parents and ECEC professionals in Germany, making use of a unique extension of the German Socio-Economic...
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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - 2002
We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...
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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - 2006
We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
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Smoke signals : the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior
Bantle, Christian; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2002
In this paper, we investigate the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior from parents to their children … evidence, that parental smoking significantly increases the probability that their children likewise become smokers. Youths … living in families with both parents smoking are 3.3 times more likely to smoke themselves, while a smoking father raises the …
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