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Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Do Population Control Policies Induce More Human Capital Investment? Twins, Birthweight, and China's 'One Child' Policy

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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A Socio-economic Analysis of Youth Disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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The role of parental investments for cognitive and noncognitive skill formation: Evidence for the first 11 years of life

Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; Reuß, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper examines the impact of parental investments on the development of cognitive, mental and emotional skills during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use...

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Geduld von Vorschulkindern: Ergebnisse einer Experimentalstudie im Haushaltskontext von Kindern

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Fischer, Barbara; Kosse, … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

In dieser Studie werden anhand einer experimentellen Datenerhebung im Rahmen der deutschen Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) mögliche Determinanten des Belohnungsaufschubs im Alter von fünf bis sechs Jahren untersucht (im Folgenden als "Geduld bei Kindern" bezeichnet)....

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A Socio-Economic Analysis of Youth Disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

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Disclosure by Politicians

Djankov, Simeon; Porta, Rafael La; Lopez-de-Silanes, … - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (2010) 2, pp. 179-209

We collect data on the rules and practices of financial and conflict disclosure by members of Parliament in 175 countries. Although two-thirds of the countries have some disclosure laws, less than one-third make disclosures available to the public, and less than one-sixth of potentially useful...

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A socio-economic analysis of youth disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

youth. …

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Mutter-Kind-Interaktion im Säuglingsalter, Familienumgebung und Entwicklung früher kognitiver und nicht-kognitiver Fähigkeiten: Eine prospektive Studie

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Laucht, Manfred; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

In der vorliegenden Studie wird anhand von Daten einer prospektiven Längsschnittstudie (Mannheimer Risikokinderstudie) untersucht, welchen Beitrag die Qualität der Mutter-Kind-Interaktion (MKI) im Säuglingsalter zur Vorhersage kognitiver (IQ) und nicht-kognitiver Fähigkeiten (Persistenz) bis...

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Birth Weight and the Dynamics of Early Cognitive and Behavioural Development

Del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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