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The role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission of human capital: evidence from administrative data
Salm, Martin; Schunk, Daniel - 2008
We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive list of health conditions - diagnosed by government physicians - can account for developmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268636
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - 2005
take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education. We test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260868
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Individual risk attitudes: new evidence from a large, representative, experimentally-validated survey
Dohmen, Thomas - 2005
take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to parental education and height. We test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267371
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Trends of children's height and parental unemployment: a large-scale anthropometric study on Eastern Germany, 1994 - 2006
Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - 2008
The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … German Land of Brandenburg, a data set of 253,050 pre-school height measurements was compiled and complemented with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264283
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2011
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282369
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - 2012
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321143
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2014
We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain samples from European countries and include birth cohorts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462244
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2012
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489844
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Are tall people less risk averse than others?
Hübler, Olaf - 2012
height to a statistically significant degree. A variety of estimation methods, tests and specifications yield robust results … that permit one to answer this question in the affirmative. Hausman-Taylor panel estimates, however, reveal that height … abilities appear simultaneously. Height is a good proxy for these influences if they are not observable. Not only one factor but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282239
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2008
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264365