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Human capital investments and expectations about career and family

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016

earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796435

Human capital investments and expectations about career and family

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016

earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536082

The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany

Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - 2007

We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600714

The duration of paid parental leave and children's scholastic performance

Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child performance. We find no effects on … intermediate outcomes such as mothers' subsequent earnings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers' mental … health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of time …

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Three Empirical Essays on the Long-Run Consequences of Early-Life Living Conditions

Neelsen, Sven - 2012

This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...