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Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China
Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418025
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Parental Gender Stereotypes and Student Wellbeing in China
Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2022
A prominent gender stereotype claims that "boys are better at learning mathematics than girls". Confronted with such a parental attitude, how does this affect the wellbeing of 11 - 18 years old students in Chinese middle schools? While wellbeing has been often shown to be not much gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014361395
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Parental Gender Stereotypes and Student Wellbeing in China
Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect students’ educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Using standard econometric techniques, parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are strongly more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090475
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Health and Well-Being in the Crisis
Askitas, Nikos - 2011
search data to document how the great economic crisis has affected people's well-being and health studying the US, Germany … three areas (US, Germany and the G8) are found, which are coincident with the crisis and its contagion timeline. An array of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127723
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Remittances and Well-Being Among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Akay, Alpaslan - 2012
The main objective of this paper is to propose a systematic approach to empirically analyse the effect of remittances on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China (RUMiC), we estimate models in which a measure of subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104940
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Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Akay, Alpaslan - 2014
As their environment changes, migrants constitute an interesting group to study the effect of relative income on subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migrants in China. Using a novel dataset, we find that the well-being of migrants depends on several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068561
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Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
Akay, Alpaslan - 2015
The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural to Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) dataset we estimate a series of well-being functions to simultaneously explore the relative concerns with respect to income and remittances....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016326
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Wages and the quantity and quality of labor
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1990
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427846
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The Mortality Crisis in East Germany
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998
explaining mortality crises and their relevance for the case of East Germany. Based on individual-level panel data the … relationship between exposure to stress and overall health is shown. Apparently, the increase in mortality can be explained by the … increase in individual stress levels after the economic, cultural and political consequences of reunification. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262254
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Remittances and Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Akay, Alpaslan; Giulietti, Corrado; Robalino, Juan David; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The main objective of this paper is to propose a systematic approach to empirically analyse the effect of remittances on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China (RUMiC), we estimate models in which a measure of subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705554