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Three empirical essays on the long-run consequences of early-life living conditions

Neelsen, Sven - 2012

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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality? : conference paper

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2014 - November 11, 2013

We show that parental socioeconomic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism that are important noncognitive skills, as well as crystallized, fluid, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480667

Cultural influences on the fertility behaviour of first- and second-generation immigrants in Germany : conference paper

Stichnoth, Holger; Yeter, Mustafa - 2013

Using an epidemiological approach, we study the cultural influence on fertility outcomes of first- and second … fertility rates from the year of migration, survey measures of fertility norms and cohort fertility rates from the year of birth … identification. We find a statistically significant, sizeable and robust impact of country-of-origin fertility rates on fertility …

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Analyzing zero returns to education in Germany : heterogeneous effects and skill formation ; conference paper

Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013 - This version: August 28, 2013, preliminary

We analyze the causal effect of education on old-age cognitive abilities using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data and regional variation in mandatory years of schooling and the supply of schools. Our outcome variable is the score an individual reaches in an ultra-short intelligence test. We...

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Like brother, like sister? : the importance of family background for cognitive and non-cognitive skills ; conference paper

Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2013

This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. The study is based on a large representative German dataset, which includes IQ test scores and measures of personality (locus of control,...

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Essays on women's education and pace of childbearing in developing countries

Jungho Kim - 2005

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Does the expansion of public child care increase birth rates? : evidence from a low-fertility country ; conference paper

Hener, Timo; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2013

Germany has the lowest birth rate among all OECD countries. To encourage fertility, the federal government has recently … fertility may be reversed through changes in public policy that allow women to combine employment and motherhood. …

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Fixed-term employment and fertility : theory and evidence from German micro data ; conference paper

Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia; Rainer, Helmut - 2013

In Germany, it has become conventional wisdom that the economic uncertainty associated fixed-term employment contracts prevents young couples from realizing their desire to have children. From a research perspective, it is however far from clear whether fixed-term contracts are the obstacle to...

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Economic perspectives on the implications of public child care and schooling for educational outcomes in childhood and adult life

Zierow, Larissa - 2017

Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize winner James Heckman shows that skills are built from the early childhood on and increase the returns of later educational inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is...

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The economics of family and group decisions

Lee, Jungmin - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003549626

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