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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 …
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Health effects on children's willingness to compete
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2011
child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different … explain developmental gaps in children's non-cognitive skills. Our measure for children's noncognitive skills is their … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154501
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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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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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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2014
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and in particular labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380588
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Overcoming barriers to service access: refugees' professional support service utilization and the impact of human and social capital
Heidinger, Ellen - 2021 - Version: October 27, 2021
After arriving in a new country, refugees are most often dependent on professional support to reestablish their livelihood. It is however well documented that refugees face barriers when seeking access to services aimed at facilitating their settlement and integration. This study examines...
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Hate is too great a burden to bear: hate crimes and the mental health of refugees
Graeber, Daniel; Schikora, Felicitas - 2021
Against a background of increasing violence against non-natives, we estimate the effect of hate crime on refugees’ mental health in Germany. For this purpose, we combine two datasets: administrative records on xenophobic crime against refugee shelters by the Federal Criminal Office and the...
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Life expectancy and parental education in Germany
Huebener, Mathias - 2019
Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life … expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as … to children's further life expectancies examined at age 35 to age 65. This pattern is more pronounced for younger cohorts …
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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe : who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2020
We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and...
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The myth of equal opportunity in Germany?
Consiglio, Valentina S.; Sologon, Denisa M. - 2019
children with a non-academic family background are still unequally obstructed. When analysing the labour market implications of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123530