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Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at … one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical … over time. A one percent increase in birth weight increase child's noncognitive skills by 0.34 percent and child's health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297940
Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at … one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical … over time. A one percent increase in birth weight increase child's noncognitive skills by 0.34 percent and child's health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297944
In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior …. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of … health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306004
This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302999
This paper examines the publication of quality indicators in service markets with public finance systems, such as education and healthcare markets. We provide a spatial model of product differentiation in which the reporting of such indicators increases consumers' decision weight on quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405657
introduced in Germany which is similar in nature to the other social insurances, such as the health care or pension insurance …. Long-term care insurance funds are generally linked to health insurance funds. The benefits are financed by virtue of an …: While health insurance is a fully comprehensive system, long-term care insurance only provides limited cover. Therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297844
introduced in Germany which is similar in nature to the other social insurances, such as the health care or pension insurance …. Long-term care insurance funds are generally linked to health insurance funds. The benefits are financed by virtue of an …: While health insurance is a fully comprehensive system, long-term care insurance only provides limited cover. Therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097963
This paper investigates the roles psychological biases play in empirically estimated deviations between subjective survival beliefs (SSBs) and objective survival probabilities (OSPs). We model deviations between SSBs and OSPs through age-dependent inverse S-shaped probability weighting functions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817195
This paper is concerned with exploring the implications of replicability issues over the medical innovation process. Each research setting is characterized by a specific level of replicability, variability increasing with the complexity of the testing settings. The study introduces new measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992670
Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at … one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical … over time. A one percent increase in birth weight increase child's noncognitive skills by 0.34 percent and child's health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097504