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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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Intergenerational Mobility and Self-Selection of Asylum Seekers in Germany

Kolb, Michael - 2019

We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...

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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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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008

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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Quasi-Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Their Intergenerational Transmission

Kosse, Fabian - 2013

This study explores the intergenerational transmission of time preferences and focuses on the question which specific aspects of mother's time preference are related to her preschool child's ability to delay gratification. We provide a new procedure for assessing the parameters of a...

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Distributional effects of the high school degree in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes; Maier, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; … - 2007

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Fiscal and Individual Rates of Return to University Education with and without Graduation

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2020

internal rate of return (IRR) of 14.2% for gross earnings, 7.4% for disposable income, and 6.6% for the net fiscal contribution … found to have negative IRRs: -0.5% for gross earnings and -5.9% for both disposable income and the net fiscal contribution … per student, and the level of income tax payments …

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Returns to Education and Individual Heterogeneity

Maier, Michael F.; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2008

In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to education. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...

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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2008

In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...

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Human Capital Investment Strategies in Europe

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2011

individuals during childhood. Furthermore, high levels of life cycle income inequality and a high skill level increase the optimal …

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