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Is smoking behavior culturally determined? Evidence from British immigrants

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - 2013

We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...

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Der Einfluss unbeobachteter Heterogenität auf kompensatorische Lohndifferentiale und den Wert eines statistischen Lebens: eine mikroökonometrische Parallelanalyse mit IABS und SOEP

Schaffner, Sandra; Spengler, Hannes - 2005

Die Arbeit untersucht mittels IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe, Sozioökonomischem Panel und Informationen über tödliche Arbeitsunfälle die Existenz kompensatorischer Lohndifferentiale zur Bestimmung desWertes eines statistischen Lebens (WSL) in Deutschland. Querschnittsregressionen auf Basis...

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In vino pecunia? The association between beverage-specific drinking behavior and wages

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008

The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the alcohol-income puzzle. Using individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we...

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Businesswomen in Germany and their performance by ethnicity: it pays to be self-employed

Constant, Amelie F. - 2008

In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006

paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid … entry variables do not play any significant role. This suggests that the Danish immigrant selection system is ineffective. …

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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006

adaptation to the attitudes of the majority population closes the immigrant-native gap in risk proclivity, while stronger …

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Obesity and developmental functioning among children aged 2-4 years

Cawley, John; Spieß, Christa Katharina - 2008

In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that … obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the … daily living, motor skills, and social skills) as a function of various measures of weight (including BMI and obesity status …

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Age-specific effects of early daycare on children's health

Barschkett, Mara - 2022

evidence for an effect of daycare attendance on mental disorders, obesity, injuries, vision problems, or healthcare costs …, and a reduction in obesity in these children. …

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Do wind turbines have adverse health impacts?

Krekel, Christian; Rode, Johannes; Roth, Alexander - 2023

While wind power is considered key in the transition towards net zero, there are concerns about adverse health impacts on nearby residents. Based on precise geographical coordinates, we link a representative longitudinal household panel to all wind turbines in Germany and exploit their staggered...

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