During the first coronavirus lockdown in Germany in spring 2020, treatment cases of children in outpatient care …-old children in the second quarter of 2020 compared to 2019. With more than 50 percent, the decline was the largest for one- to two …-year-old children. It is possible that actually fewer children became sick due to the contact restrictions and the closure of day care …

, 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 …. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they …

training. The theoretical intuition on the impact of wage floors on education is ambiguous. On the one hand, they raise the … opportunity cost of education and prevent further skill accumulation. On the other hand, they lower the employment probability of … workers declines which lowers the opportunity cost of education. High requirements with regard to professional skills …

Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …

paper relates education measures to economic development. The following three papers contribute to the understanding of …This study was prepared by Annika B. Bergbauer while she was working at the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education … human capital for regional development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The findings suggest a stronger correlation of development …

measured by the number of youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) in percent of the total youth population. Korea …'s NEET figures are at the top in OECD countries, especially for youth with tertiary education. This paper throws some light … education and vocational training systems that emphasise middle level and market oriented skills are identified as institutional …