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Like my parents at home? : gender differences in children's housework in Germany and Spain
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 52 (2017) 4, pp. 1143-1179
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943966
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Education, income and happiness : panel evidence for the UK
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A. - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 58 (2020) 5, pp. 2573-2592
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256392
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Family and gender still matter: the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany
Schnabel, Reinhold; Schnabel, Isabel - 2002
the substantial political efforts to equalize educational opportunities in Germany. Persons with less-educated parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297750
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The role of parental investments for cognitive and noncognitive skill formation: Evidence for the first 11 years of life
Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; Reuß, Karsten - 2010
during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work … characteristics of children. Third, we examine the skill development for girls and boys separately, as well as for children who were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300379
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Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior: Evidence from parental health shocks
Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Westermaier, Franz - 2011
In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for … the development of these non-cognitive characteristics. However, we observe that paternal health shocks cause children to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306004
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Aggregate Unemployment Decreases Individual Returns to Education
Ammermüller, Andreas; Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2006
On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297542
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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany
Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - 2000
Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297667
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Enrolments in higher education in West Germany: the impact of social background, labour market returns and educational funding
Lauer, Charlotte - 2000
This paper analyses the determinants of participation in higher education in West Germany. In particular, the role of social origin as well as of expectations regarding the labour market outcome of a higher education degree and of public educational policy are examined. The estimations are based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297724
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Does the early bird catch the worm? : instrumental estimates of early educational effects of age school entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea M. - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 32 (2007) 2/3, pp. 359-386
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003470228
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Risk attitude and wage growth: replicating Shaw (1996)
Budria, Santi; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 44 (2013) 2, pp. 981-1004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724810