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Time is money : the influence of parenthood timing on wages
Kind, Michael; Kleibrink, Jan - 2012
This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580145
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Time is Money – The Influence of Parenthood Timing on Wages
Kind, Michael - 2012
This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101558
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Time is Money – The Influence of Parenthood Timing on Wages
Kind, Michael - 2012
This paper studies the eff ect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102778
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A longitudinal analysis of fast-food exposure on child weight outcomes : identifying causality through school transitions
Dunn, Richard A.; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Thomsen, Michael; … - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 1 (2021) 1, pp. 1-22
This article investigates the effect of fast-food availability on childhood weight outcomes by gender, race, and location. We use a novel identification strategy based on changes in fast-food exposure along the route between the home and school that occur as students progress through the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013326431
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The changing benefits of early work experience
Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2014
We examine whether the benefits of high school work experience have changed over the last 20 years by comparing effects for the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Our main specifications suggest that the future wage benefits of working 20 hours per week in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403493
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The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors
Conti, Gabriella - 2015
This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016236
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Early health and school outcomes for children with lesbian parents : evidence from Sweden
Aldén, Lina; Björklund, Anders; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2017
Sweden was early to legalize same-sex partnership (1995), to allow same-sex couples to adopt children (2003), and to … children of lesbian parents as those whose biological mother was a registered same-sex partner no later than six months after … the child's birth. The number of such children increased markedly from 1995 to 2010 with a total of 750 children for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625387
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Causal Effects of Educational Mismatch in the Labor Market
Kleibrink, Jan - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages in Germany, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Educational mismatch has been discussed extensively, mostly by applying OLS wage regressions which are prone to an unobserved heterogeneity bias. This problem is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077825
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Causal Effects of Educational Mismatch in the Labor Market
Kleibrink, Jan - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages in Germany, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Educational mismatch has been discussed extensively, mostly by applying OLS wage regressions which are prone to an unobserved heterogeneity bias. This problem is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014155123
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Human capital investments and family size in Italy: IV estimates using twin births as an instrument
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2021
investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the … children quantity-quality trade-off proposed by Becker that has been investigated only for a few countries because of data … limitations. We investigate this issue for Italy - even in the absence of Census data relating family of origin to children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803755