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Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects : A Causal Panel Analysis of German Statutory Insured and Civil Service Pensioners
Merz, Joachim - 2022
variables (IV) estimates with individual longitudinal data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, 33 waves) analyze anticipation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083803
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How Much Can We Trust Causal Interpretations of Fixed-Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality?
Bjerk, David - 2009
Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some treatment on individual criminality. For example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang participation on individual criminal activity. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155604
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Immigration, Unemployment and Growth in the Host Country : Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis on OECD Countries
Boubtane, Ekrame - 2011
country. We employ the bootstrap panel Granger causality testing approach of Kónya (2006) that allows to test for causality on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122115
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Health and the Wage Rate : Cause, Effect, Both, or Neither? New Evidence on an Old Question
Dench, Daniel - 2018
compensating wage differential models, a panel formed from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, and dynamic panel … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate in a panel of U.S. young adults who had completed their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906526
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The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation : Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2021
The behavioral revolution within economics has been largely driven by psychological insights, with the sister sciences playing a lesser role. This study leverages insights from sociology to explore the role of neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age. We do so by estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314739
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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills
Hille, Adrian - 2013
-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our findings suggest that adolescents with music training have better cognitive skills and school grades and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074170
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The Effect of Childhood Conduct Disorder on Human Capital
Koning, Pierre - 2010
) estimation approaches, we find that early (pre-18) conduct disorder problems significantly affect both human capital accumulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141775
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Trauma at School : The Impacts of Shootings on Students' Human Capital and Economic Outcomes
Cabral, Marika; Kim, Bokyung; Rossin-Slater, Maya; … - 2021
A growing number of American children are exposed to gun violence at their schools, but little is known about the impacts of this exposure on their human capital attainment and economic well-being. This paper studies the causal effects of exposure to shootings at schools on children's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252367
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Test Scores, Noncognitive Skills and Economic Growth
Balart, Pau - 2015
Many studies have found a strong association between economic outcomes of nations and their performance on international cognitive tests. This association is often interpreted as evidence for the importance of cognitive skills for economic growth. However, noncognitive skills, such as motivation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009506
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Human Capital and Growth : Specification Matters
Sunde, Uwe - 2011
This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the different channels through which human capital affects growth. A systematic replication of earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120134