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Locus of control and its intergenerational implications for early childhood skill formation

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Cornaglia, Francesca; Powdthavee, … - 2014

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Do party positions affect the public's policy preferences?

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019

The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions? In a representative German survey, we inform...

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The legacy of Covid-19 in education

Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development …, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper … and students’ cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children’s learning time …

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Does ignorance of economic returns and costs explain the educational aspiration gap? : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university …

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Automatability of occupations, workers' labor-market expectations, and willingness to train

Lergetporer, Philipp; Wedel, Katharina; Werner, Katharina - 2023

We study how beliefs about the automatability of workers' occupation affect labor-market expectations and willingness to participate in further training. In our representative online survey, respondents on average underestimate the automation risk of their occupation, especially those in...

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Early maternal employment and non-cognitive outcomes in early childhood and adolescence : evidence from British birth cohort data

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Clark, Andrew E. - 2015

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The long-lasting effects of family and childhood on adult wellbeing : evidence from British cohort data

Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N. - 2017

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The demand of heterogeneous labour in Germany

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand - 1997

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Curvature conditions and substitution pattern among capital, energy, materials and heterogeneous labour

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand - 1999

This study deals with the determinants of factor demand in 27 industries of the manufacturing sector during the period 1978 to 1990. Using a quadratic cost function, six production factors are distinguished : capital, energy, three types of labour and intermediate materials. A parametric test of...

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Workers' skill level and information technology : evidence from German service firms

Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999

This paperanalyses the link between human capitaland information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are...

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