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Fat and out in Salerno and Province: adolescent obesity and early school leaving in Southern Italy

Barone, Adriana; O'Higgins, Niall - 2009

Salerno in Southern Italy. A simple human capital investment model is employed and this provides a framework within which to …

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A socio-economic analysis of youth disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2010

Disconnectedness among youth can have several dimensions. From a socio-economic viewpoint, failure in school …, unemployment and the lack of an intimate relationship are among the most important ones. In our samples from SOEP youth … followed by increases in the number of disconnected youth. …

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A socio-economic analysis of youth disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2009

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A Socio-Economic Analysis of Youth Disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2010

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Birth weight and the dynamics of early cognitive and behavioural development

Del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John - 2009

In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. In order to deal with the endogeneity of birth weight we use an estimator based on the eliminant method. When coupled with ordinary least squares,...

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Do population control policies induce more human capital investment? : Twins, birthweight, and China's one child policy

Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2006

In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects associated with the lower birthweight and...

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Do population control policies induce more human capital investment? Twins, birthweight, and China's 'one child' policy

Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2006

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Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from MARS

Laucht, Manfred; Coneus, Katja; Blomeyer, Dorothea; … - 2008

This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...

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Initial Risk Matrix, Home Resources, Ability Development and Children's Achievement

Laucht, Manfred; Coneus, Katja; Blomeyer, Dorothea; … - 2008

This paper investigates the development of basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities from infancy to adolescence. We analyse the predictive power of these abilities, initial risk conditions and home resources for children's achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of...

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Entwicklung und Ungleichheit von Fähigkeiten: Anmerkungen aus ökonomischer Sicht

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2009

Nirgends sonst im ökonomischen Handeln fallen Kosten und Nutzen im Zeitablauf und aufgeteilt nach Investoren und Nutznießern so eklatant auseinander wie bei Bildungsinvestitionen. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird argumentiert, dass in der sozialen Realität die Bildungsungleichheit im...

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