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welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany. …
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This paper presents results from a randomized evaluation of a home visiting program for disadvantaged first-time mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. I analysis the impact of the intervention on maternal employment, school attendance, child care use, fertility,...
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Preferences for male children in Albania are shown to have persisted through nearly half a century of communist rule …
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We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a … administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm the findings in the previous literature that children who are slightly below the … spillovers on all our measures of academic achievement. Our estimates suggest that siblings of focal children who were slightly …
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This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two complementary data sets, we examine different...
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This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births.We use …
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children. For rural ethnic minorities, however, the level of enforcement of the birth control policy does not significantly …
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We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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