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This paper examines how child maltreatment is affected by the economic circumstances of parents. 'Child maltreatment … structure, welfare benefits, and child maltreatment. Welfare programs affect the incentives of women and men to work and to live …, welfare reforms can be expected to affect the incidence of child maltreatment. Although is too early to accurately determine …
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identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …
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We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we...
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impatience. The child's impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment. Mother's impatience has been assessed by a … for mother's and child's characteristics the child's impatience at preschool age is significantly correlated with the six …
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This paper presents the results of a randomized study of a home visiting program implemented in Germany for low-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants’ economic self-sufficiency and family planning. I use administrative data from the German...
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children...
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We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and second-generation immigrants and between source country groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show...
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Can moving to an earnings-related parental leave system influence children's wellbeing and are heterogeneous effects on parents carried over to the entire family, making special groups of children worse off than others? To answer this question, this study exploits a large and unanticipated...
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child becomes older. These findings show that parenthood leads to considerable changes in individual risk attitudes over …
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