In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for … the development of these non-cognitive characteristics. However, we observe that paternal health shocks cause children to …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health shocks in … base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify …

of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …

during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work … characteristics of children. Third, we examine the skill development for girls and boys separately, as well as for children who were …

We analyze the effectiveness of public works programs (PWP, Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen) in east Germany as measured … both the effectiveness and the equity aspects of public works programs in east Germany. …

, our results further support the advice to parents of young children not to smoke. -- Indoor and outdoor pollution ; health …This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children’s health from birth until the age of three … years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …

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 … investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the …

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 … investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the …

intergenerational link and transmission of both maternal and paternal health on children's health in Germany. We investigate this issue …, controlling for parental income, education and family composition, that parents who experience poor health have children with …The prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years …

for the dramatic decline in employment and the unprecedented increase in unemployment in the east German economy. …