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Too many bargainers spoil the broth : the impact of bargaining on markets with price takers
Gill, David (contributor); Thanassoulis, John (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003475935
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A socio-economic analysis of youth disconnectedness
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2010
Disconnectedness among youth can have several dimensions. From a socio-economic viewpoint, failure in school …, unemployment and the lack of an intimate relationship are among the most important ones. In our samples from SOEP youth … followed by increases in the number of disconnected youth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824837
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Teenage pregnancies and birth in Germany : patterns and developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373670
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The development and happiness of very young children
Anand, Paul; Roope, Laurence - 2016
The paper demonstrates how Sen’s (1985) alternative approach to welfare economics can be used to shed light on the wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557329
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House price growth when children are teenagers : a path to higher earnings?
Cooper, Daniel; Luengo-Prado, Maria José - 2014 - This version: December 23, 2014
The United States has a long history of promoting homeownership through the mortgage interest tax deduction, and home equity constitutes an important source of borrowing collateral. There is a sizable body of work studying how fluctuating house prices impact consumer behavior. Since college...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010475603
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The bigger the children, the bigger the worries : are preschoolers and adolescents affected differently by family instability with regard to non-cognitive skills?
Peter, Frauke; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2011 - This version: 13 March 2011
Substantial research on the relationship between family structures and child outcomes represents a considerable part of the literature. However, family structure provides a rather static view of the relationship of children's living arrangements and their well-being, revealing hardly anything...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936412
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Is it the family or the neighborhood? : evidence from sibling and neighbor correlations in youth education and health
Bügelmayer, Elisabeth; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2014 - This version: December 2014
In this paper we present sibling and neighbor correlations in school grades and cognitive skills as well as indicators of physical and mental health for a sample of German adolescents. In a first step, we estimate sibling correlations and find substantial influence of shared family and community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462009
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Gender differences in residential mobility : the case of leaving home in East Germany
Geißler, Ferdinand; Leopold, Thomas; Pink, Sebastian - 2012
This paper investigates gender differences in the spatial mobility of young adults when initially leaving their parental home. Using individual data from 11 waves (2000-2010) of the SOEP, we examine whether female home leavers in East Germany move across greater distances than males and whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009633736
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Educational choice and risk aversion : how important is structural vs. individual risk aversion?
Hartlaub, Vanessa; Schneider, Thorsten - 2012
on data from the youth questionnaire of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) collected in the years 2003 to 2010 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541883
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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment
Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017
We investigate the causal effect of age at migration on subsequent educational attainment in the destination country. To identify the causal effect we compare the educational attainment of siblings at age 21, exploiting the fact that they typically migrate at different ages within a given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662703