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Improving the life chances of children at risk
Rogers, David E. (contributor) - 1990
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004107525
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The impact of extreme weather events on child health : evidence from Mongolia ; conference paper
Groppo, Valeria; Schindler, Kati - 2014 - Draft
negative effect of the shock is strongest for children from herding households. Moreover, we explore the role of mitigation … channels to cushion the impact of the weather shock. In households where the head has more experience in herding, children … better able to protect their children from the effect of the shock. Finally, both the amount of emergency aid delivered per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483868
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Extracurricular educational programs and school readiness : evidence from a quasi-experiment with preschool children ; conference paper
Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2014
The paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). By utilizing a quasi-experimental study design we estimate the causal short-term effect of JU enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491090
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The effect of early childhood language training programs on the contemporary formation of grammar skills : conference paper
Kamhöfer, Daniel A. - 2014 - Preliminary
While there is a big literature on the benefits of pre-school education, only little is known why kindergarten attendance improves later-life outcomes. This is partly because most studies analyze the effect of complete 2 years pre-school programs. In order to shed light into the black box of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483845
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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
intergenerational correlations are only able to capture parts of the influence of the family on children s cognitive and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336812
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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
mother's and father's average years of education and household income. Our results show that children from families with … quality of time parents spend with their children, parenting style, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480667
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Big banks and macroeconomic outcomes : theory and cross-country evidence of granularity ; conference paper
Bremus, Franziska; Buch, Claudia M.; Russ, Katheryn Niles; … - 2013
Does the mere presence of big banks affect macroeconomic outcomes? Gabaix (2011) shows that idosyncratic shocks can have aggregate effects if the distribution of firm sizes in manufacturing follows a power law distribution. Our contribution is two-fold. First, we expand the theory of granularity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336792
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ECDC strategic multi-annual programme 2007 - 2013 : public health activities, disease-specific programmes and multilateral partnerships ; [... its tenth and twelfth meetings in Vie...
2008
Recoge: INtroduction - The communicable disease challenges to the European Union 2007-20013 - ECDC's role in 2007 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760224
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A disease-based comparison of health systems : what is best and at what cost?
2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001757646
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Zdraví - výzvy a rizika : sborník příspěvků XLIII. konference České Demografické Společnosti, 22. - 23. května 2013, VŠE v Praze
Langhamrová, Jitka (contributor);  … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193750