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Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating

Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco; Siedler, Thomas - 2004

We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the extent of …

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Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Siedler, Thomas - 2007

This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260897

Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?

Siedler, Thomas - 2007

variables estimates suggest strong and significant effects of parental unemployment on right-wing extremism. Various panel …

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Industrialized Countries

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - 2007

This paper reviews research about the intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries. In order to make our survey manageable, we restrict attention to studies that consider the relationship between parental poverty (or ?income?) during childhood and laterlife outcomes; we...

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Using Household Panel Data to Understand the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - 2007

This paper discusses how household panel surveys can be informative about the intergenerational transmission of poverty … is on panel surveys from developed countries, we also briefly consider data availability in developing countries. We set … out a list of survey data requirements for intergenerational analysis, and then discuss how the main household panel …

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O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2006

-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and from the American National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), we find strong evidence that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260973

Does Democracy Foster Trust?

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2006

data from the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) and from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we obtain two …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260974

Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - 2006

We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...

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Meet the parents? The causal effect of family size on the geographic distance between adult children and older parents

Holmlund, Helena; Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2009

An emerging question in demographic economics is whether there is a link between family size and the geographic distance between adult children and elderly parents. Given current population trends, understanding how different configurations of fam- ily size and sibship influence patterns of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271134

One last puff? Public smoking bans and smoking behavior

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2010

smoking intensity. Using rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, our difference …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271584