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Birthright citizenship and education : do immigrant children need a passport to thrive? ; conference paper

Sajons, Christoph; Clots-Figueras, Irma - 2014 - First version: February, 1st, 2014, Preliminary results

This paper evaluates the effect of becoming citizen of the host-country at birth on educational outcomes of immigrant children in Germany. We exploit the introduction of birthright citizenship for newborn children in Germany starting on the 1st of January, 2000, to obtain...

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Granting birthright citizenship : a door opener for immigrant children's educational participation and success? ; conference paper

Felfe, Christina; Saurer, Judith - 2014

Does granting citizenship at birth help immigrant children to integrate in the host country's educational system and thus, to promote their educational success? Our identification strategy is based on a reform of the German naturalization law in 2000. We exploit this natural experiment and use a...

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Labor market effects of sports and exercise : evidence from Canadian panel data ; conference paper

Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - 2014 - This version: January 2014

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individ-ual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity in-formation. Exploiting...

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Reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental health : conference paper

Grunow, Martina - 2013

the negative effect of unemployment on mental health depends on expectations about the future employment status. Several … contributions to the literature have shown that the perception of the individual employment status depends on the surrounding … unemployment rate. We argue that expectations are a possible link between unemployment rates and the individual employment status …

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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-generation female immigrants based on a 1% sample of the German population. We proxy for culture in the country of origin using total fertility rates from the year of migration, survey...

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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity : conference paper

Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014

Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...

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Do high-skilled immigrants find jobs faster than low-skilled immigrants? : conference paper

Hochfellner, Daniela; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2014 - Preliminary version: 27th February 2014

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...

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Reducing binge drinking? : the effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on alcohol-related hospital stays in Germany ; conference paper

Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas - 2013

Excessive alcohol consumption among youth and young adults is a major public health concern. On March 1, 2010 the German federal state of Baden-W rttemberg banned the sale of alcoholic beverages between 10pm and 5am in off-premise outlets (e.g. kiosks, petrol stations, supermarkets). We use rich...

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Early life adversity and children's competence development : evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk ; conference paper

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2013

This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from birth to adolescence. Results indicate that organic and psychosocial risks present in...

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Examining the structure of spatial health effects using hierarchical Bayes models : conference paper

Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013 - This version: November 11, 2012

This paper makes use of Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects. We focus on Germany, combining rich individual-level household panel data with administrative county level information to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable, we...

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