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Development of BMI values of German children and their healthcare costs
Batscheider, Ariane; Rzehak, Peter; Teuner, Christina M.; … - In: Economics and human biology 12 (2014), pp. 56-66
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Cohort changes in educational disparities in smoking: France, Germany and the United States
Pampel, Fred; Legleye, Stephane; Goffette, Céline; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 127 (2015) C, pp. 41-50
three countries. Nationally representative surveys of adults in France, Germany and the United States in 2009–2010 include … earlier occurrence of the strengthening for men than women and for the United States than France or Germany; a faster pace of … the epidemic in France than in the United States, and; a divide between the highest level of education and the others in …
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Happiness : before and after the kids
Myrskylä, Mikko; Margolis, Rachel - 2014
Understanding how having children influences the parents' subjective well-being ("happiness") has great potential to … pattern. Those who have children at older ages or have more education have a particularly positive happiness response to a … first birth, and although the first two children increase happiness, the third does not. The results are similar in Britain …
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Starke Familie : Bericht der Kommission "Familie und demographischer Wandel" ; im Auftrag der Robert Bosch Stiftung
Biedenkopf, Kurt H.; Bertram, Hans; Käßmann, Margot; … - 2005 - 1. Aufl.
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Collateral damage : educational attainment and labor market outcomes among German war and post-war cohorts
Jürges, Hendrik - 2012
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Collateral damage: educational attainment and labor market outcomes among German war and post-war cohorts
Jürges, Hendrik - 2012
We use data from the West German 1970 census to explore the link between being born during or shortly after World War II and educational and labor market outcomes 25 years later. We document, for the first time, that men and women born in the relatively short period between November 1945 and May...
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Issues in the estimation of dynamic happiness models : a comment on "Does childhood predict adult life satisfaction?"
Piper, Alan T.; Pugh, Geoff - 2016
This paper offers methodological comments on a recent (November 2014) Economic Journal article. The comments consider its use of a dynamic model - the inclusion of a lagged dependent variable - and its approach to estimation. By way of critique, the authors highlight general issues regarding...
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Individual behaviour as a pathway between early-life shocks and adult health : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany
Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 125 (2015) 588, pp. 372-393
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Fetal origins of personality : effects of early life circumstances on adult personality traits
Krutikova, Sonya; Lilleør, Helene Bie - 2015
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Erbschaften und Schenkungen im Lebenslauf : eine vergleichende Längsschnittanalyse mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel
Leopold, Thomas - 2009
Diese Arbeit untersucht die Rolle der Familie als materielles Unterstützungssystem anhand von Erbschaften und Schenkungen, die Eltern und Großeltern an ihre Kinder bzw. Enkel vergeben. Nach der Diskussion ökonomischer und soziologischer Literatur zum intergenerationalen Transfergeschehen wird...
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