1994 are used to construct price indices for personal computers in Germany. The use of hedonic methods allows to correct … index. The estimation confirms the importance of quality adjustment since the decline of average prices at 7 percent p.a. is … substantially lower, thus overestimating computer prices and inflation. When the hedonic index for German computer prices is …

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compared to control mothers. This also holds true after controlling for observable differences in pre-birth illness histories …-run delay in return to work, which might rationalize a negative causal health effect. Breaking down the results by mothers’ pre …-birth health status suggests that the higher incidence of long-term sickness absence among the treated may be explained by the fact …

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 …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child’s health during the first three years of life …

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 …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …

health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting …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 …

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

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 …