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child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …
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child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149131
We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292383
We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128975
skills as well as health and household characteristics. We find that higher cognitive skills are associated with more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601046
skills as well as health and household characteristics. We find that higher cognitive skills are associated with more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353589
' mental health in Germany. For this purpose, we combine two datasets: administrative records on xenophobic crime against … several mental health indicators, including the Mental Component Summary score and the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 score … country-specific human capital. While the estimated effect is only transitory, we argue that negative mental health shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520403
This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine...
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It is still widely debated how non-cognitive skills can be affected by policy intervention. For example, universal music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries. These are intended to give children from poor families the...
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This paper investigates heterogeneous wage effects of non-cognitive skills across the wage distribution. I develop a model of wage determination under uncertainty with respect to individual productivity based on three components (minimum wages, productivity premiums, bargaining premiums). Based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011707828