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Age effects in education : a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrant children
Abatemarco, Antonio; Cavallo, Mariagrazia; Marino, … - 2021
A double disadvantage occurs when the interaction of two disadvantages generates an additional disadvantage. We show that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to the average native, reduces scores in Italian by 17% and...
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The well-being age U-shape effect in Germany is not flat
Blanchflower, David G.; Piper, Alan T. - 2021
Kassenboehmer and DeNew (2012) claim that there is no well-being age U-shape effect for Germany, when controlling for fixed effects and respondent experience and interviewer characteristics in the German Socio-Economic Panel, 1994-2006. We re-estimate with a longer run of years and restrict the...
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Performance pay and alcohol use in Germany
Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2021
We study the link between performance pay and alcohol use in Germany, a country with mandated health insurance …. Previous research from the US argues that alcohol use as a form of "self-medication" may be a natural response to the stress … of consuming each of four types of alcohol (beer, wine, spirits, and mixed drinks) is higher for those receiving …
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