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Towards a multidimensional poverty index for Germany : parents' employment and children's school success in Germany

Suppa, Nicolai - 2015

This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual framework, I apply the Alkire-Foster method using German panel data. I suggest new operationalizations for two dimensions: social participation and practical reason, the latter...

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The long-run effects of sports club vouchers for primary school children

Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021

Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...

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Intergenerational scars : the impact of parental unemployment on individual health later in life

Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023

have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018 … interpretation of the estimates. On the one hand, we found a nil effect for parental unemployment on mental health. On the other hand …, we detected a negative effect on physical health. The latter is stronger if parental unemployment occurred in early …

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Childbearing history, later life health, and mortality in Germany

Hank, Karsten - 2010

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health … better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women …'s physical health and survival is negative. Early motherhood is paralleled by poorer physical health in West Germany, whereas …

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Späte Mutterschaft als medizinischer Risikofaktor? : der Einfluss des Alters der Mutter auf das Risiko der Frühgeburt

Peters, Frederik - 2010

Das steigende mittlere Alter bei Geburt wird in der medizinischen Forschung als wichtiger Risikofaktor für die Gesundheit der Neugeborenen erachtet, die über den Indikator Frühgeburt bestimmt werden kann. Die vorliegende Analyse eines Kollektivs von insgesamt 1391 Geburten von Müttern im...

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Impatience among preschool children and their mothers

Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2012

experiments …

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How much can we trust maternal ratings of early child development in disadvantaged samples?

Sandner, Malte; Jungmann, Tanja - 2016

An increasing number of panel studies use short screening questionnaires to assess infant development. Although some research examines the validity of screening questionnaires for middleclass families, knowledge about their accuracy in disadvantaged households is scarce. This paper validates a...

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Early childhood environment, breastfeeding and the formation of preferences

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2016

This study provides insights on the role of early childhood family environment within the process of preference formation. We start by presenting evidence showing that breastfeeding duration is a valid measure of the quality of early childhood environment. In the main analysis, we then...

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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment

Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2016

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socio-economic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...

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Fertility effects of child benefits

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wiynck, Frederik - 2017

We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by household income and the number of children. We use these...

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