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This volume was prepared by Marc Piopiunik while he has been working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at...
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health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was exposed to a famine during preadolescence. These …
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related to education – health, wealth, occupation, and employment – feature in this correlation. We label these four factors …-third for men, and over two-thirds for women – can be attributed to the correlation of education with health, and of health with … DI receipt. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study for the 1992-2012 period to explore the corresponding roles …
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related to education - health, wealth, occupation, and employment - feature in this correlation. We label these four factors …-third for men, and over two-thirds for women - can be attributed to the correlation of education with health, and of health with … DI receipt. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study for the 1992-2012 period to explore the corresponding roles …
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This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …
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representative population health survey and instrumental variable methods. The estimates point to mostly insignificant effects of … at the 10% significance level, but has no effect when using the GHQ-12 (12-item General Health Questionnaire) or the … probability of severe depression as a measure of mental health. These results cast doubt on the view that the length of formal …
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Several studies have shown that body height is positively associated with educational attainment. In this paper, we investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are more likely to enroll in 'Gymnasium', the most...
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