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Maternal life satisfaction and child outcomes : are they related?
Berger, Eva M.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2009
three-year-old children as well as the socio-emotional behavior of five- to six-year-old children. We use data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636267
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Parenthood and risk preferences
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015
This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526382
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Obesity and developmental functioning among children aged 2-4 years
Cawley, John H.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2008
developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632171
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Immigrant fertility in Germany : the role of culture
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2014
This paper focuses on the role of home country's fertility culture in shaping immigrants' fertility. I use the German … more children than women from countries with low TFRs. I also demonstrate that this positive relationship is attenuated by … of fertility differentials between immigrants and German natives. The results suggest that home country's culture affects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462147
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Undoing gender with institutions : lessons from the German division and reunification
Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019
a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still differs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007148
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Culture, spatial diffusion of ideas and their long-lasting imprints : evidence from Froebel's kindergarten movement
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver - 2014 - This version: March 2014
We document the spatial diffusion of Friedrich Froebel's radical invention of kindergartens in 19th-century Germany. The first kindergarten was founded at Froebel's birthplace. Early spatial diffusion can be explained by cultural proximity, measured by historical dialect similarity, to Froebel's...
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Examining the effects of birth order on personality
Rohrer, Julia M.; Egloff, Boris; Schmukle, Stefan Christian - 2015
This study examined the long-standing question of whether a person’s position among siblings has a lasting impact on that person’s life course. Empirical research on the relation between birth order and intelligence has convincingly documented that performances on psychometric intelligence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441625
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The chips are down : the influence of family on children's trust formation
Giulietti, Corrado; Rettore, Enrico; Tonini, Sara - 2016
parents to their children. Attempts to empirically measure the strength of this transmission relied so far on the cross …-sectional regression of the trust of children on the contemporaneous trust of their parents. We introduce a new identification strategy … which hinges on a panel of parents and their children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Our results show that: 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011530255
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How much can we trust maternal ratings of early child development in disadvantaged samples?
Sandner, Malte; Jungmann, Tanja - 2016
An increasing number of panel studies use short screening questionnaires to assess infant development. Although some research examines the validity of screening questionnaires for middleclass families, knowledge about their accuracy in disadvantaged households is scarce. This paper validates a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450952
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Does parental unemployment affect the quality of their children's first job?
Kleverbeck, Maria; Kind, Michael - 2016
In this paper the relationship between parental unemployment at time of children's labor market entrance on the quality … of their children's first job is analyzed. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1991 … negative correlation between fathers' unemployment at the time of children's labor market entrance and their children's first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450984