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The impact of parents migration on the well-being of children left behind : initial evidence from Romania

Botezat, Alina; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2014

Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …

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Quasi-hyperbolic time preferences and their intergenerational transmission

Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2013

-Hyperbolic Discounting ; Preschool Children …

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Impatience among preschool children and their mothers

Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2012

Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of …

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Intra- und intergenerationale Umverteilungseffekte in der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf Basis humankapitaltheoretischer Überlegungen

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor); … - 2008

In der folgenden Studie möchten wir ausgewählte Aspekte von intra- und intergenerationalen Umverteilungseffekten im System der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf der Basis der Humankapitalheorie mit Simulationsmethoden analysieren. Falls es das Ziel der Politik ist, die Ungleichheit des...

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Education and lifetime income during demographic transition

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2013

The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for … reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation … transition until 2080. If policy aims at reducing the inequality of lifetime income among people of the same generation …

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Ungleichheit und die differentiellen Erträge frühkindlicher Bildungsinvestitionen im Lebenszyklus

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor); … - 2008

Um Hinweise für die Erträge von Investitionen in die Fähigkeiten von Kindern im Vorschulalter geben zu können, möchten wir in diesem Beitrag die Ergebnisse von Simulationen zur Diskussion stellen. Der Humankapitalerwerb wird als Funktion von kognitiven und nichtkognitiven Fähigkeiten...

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Self-productivity in early childhood

Coneus, Katja (contributor); Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor) - 2007

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...

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Self-productivity in early childhood

Coneus, Katja (contributor); Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor) - 2007

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Self-productivity and complementarities in human development : evidence from MARS

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008

well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS), an epidemiological …

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Assessing intergenerational earnings persistence among German workers

Eisenhauer, Philipp (contributor); … - 2008

In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates that...

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