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Mutter-Kind-Interaktion im Säuglingsalter, Familienumgebung und Entwicklung früher kognitiver und nicht-kognitiver Fähigkeiten : eine prospektive Studie
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Laucht, Manfred; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; … - 2010
In der vorliegenden Studie wird anhand von Daten einer prospektiven Längsschnittstudie (Mannheimer Risikokinderstudie) untersucht, welchen Beitrag die Qualität der Mutter-Kind-Interaktion (MKI) im Säuglingsalter zur Vorhersage kognitiver (IQ) und nicht-kognitiver Fähigkeiten (Persistenz) bis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003979094
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Human capital investment strategies in Europe
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2011
The paper analyses alternative investment policies and their consequences for the evolution of human capital in Europe based on a model of age dependent skill formation where the life span depends on investments during childhood. What makes the approach special is the analysis of the returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011243
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The impact of parents migration on the well-being of children left behind : initial evidence from Romania
Botezat, Alina; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2014
Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348742
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Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers
Gebel, Michael (contributor);  … - 2007
The paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion in the sixties and seventies entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435431
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A socio-economic analysis of youth disconnectedness
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2009
According to our research, some 12% of young people in Germany between the ages of 17 and 19 are disconnected, i.e. not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902946
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Entwicklung und Ungleichheit von Fähigkeiten: Anmerkungen aus ökonomischer Sicht
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2009
und Kompetenzen auch im Schulalter und im Erwerbsleben ist. Für benachteiligte Kinder scheint somit die … Bildungspolitik, den Zugang zu einer angemessenen emotionalen Fürsorge von Anfang an weiter zu verbessern. Darüber hinaus ist es …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846092
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Self-productivity in early childhood
Coneus, Katja (contributor); Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor) - 2007
investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003528851
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Ungleichheit und die differentiellen Erträge frühkindlicher Bildungsinvestitionen im Lebenszyklus
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor);  … - 2008
Steigerung des Humankapitals und zur Reduktion von Ungleichheit eine effiziente Familienpolitik ist. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608122
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Self-productivity in early childhood
Coneus, Katja (contributor); Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor) - 2007
investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003567065
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Self-productivity and complementarities in human development : evidence from MARS
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008
well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS), an epidemiological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751476