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the fact that food crop farmers and cotton farmers were exposed differently to that shock to estimate the income … enrolment rates. Instrumental variable estimates show that the effect of household income on children's school enrolment is much …
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The paper analyses the effect of class size, which stands proxy for school quality, on early career earnings. Using confidential district level information from the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), it is demonstrated that class size has no discernible effect on early career earnings. This...
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We contribute to the literature on the relationship between cognitive abilities and labour market outcomes providing first evidence for Germany. In particular, cross-sectional data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) are used, which include two measures of cognitive ability, one test of...
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We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely...
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In this paper I investigate the causal returns to education for different educational groups in Germany by employing a new method by Klein and Vella (2010) that bases identification on the presence of conditional heteroskedasticity. Compared to IV methods, key advantages of this approach are...
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This paper explores the use of informal credit as a strategy for managing risks by market women in northern Ghana. A …
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Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on average at least a 10 percentage points higher...
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. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the alcohol-income puzzle. Using individual … on the alcohol-income puzzle by analyzing, for the first time, the association between beverage-specific drinking … discussed in view of the likelihood that the alcohol-income puzzle is a multicausal phenomenon. …
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were much more likely to suffer income losses than employees. Among the self-employed, women were 35% more likely to … experience income losses than men, as women are disproportionately working in industries that are more severely affected by the …
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-Effects-Modellen analysiert wird. Es zeigt sich, dass die klassischen Ungleichheitsmerkmale Einkommen und Bildung neben dem Alter und dem …, we observe, that individual leisure activities depend strongly on income and education along with age and gender. Over … time, the influence of income also increases. In sum, it appears that differences in leisure are indeed still strongly …
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