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The role of parental investments for cognitive and noncognitive skill formation : evidence for the first 11 years of life
Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; Reuß, Karsten - 2010
during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work … characteristics of children. Third, we examine the skill development for girls and boys separately, as well as for children who were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961553
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Peer effects in language training for migrants
Sprietsma, Maresa; Pfeil, Lisa - 2015
We investigate the effect of peer group composition on language improvement in language classes for adults. Using unique survey data of migrants participating in an intensive language course in Germany, we find that the age and skill composition of groups affect skill acquisition as assessed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527127
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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 … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348742
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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 … ; Elterliche Fürsorge ; Fähigkeiten ; Investitionen in Humankapital ; Lebenszyklus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846092
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Return and risk of human capital contracts
Kroencke, Tim-Alexander; Muehler, Grit; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2013
Human capital contracts give private investors the right to share of students' future earnings in return for a financial contribution during their studies. Although still rarely used, human capital contracts could not only help to completement limited public funding for higher education but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221714
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Orphans at risk in Sub-Saharan Africa : evidence on educational and health outcomes
Coneus, Katja; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2011
. We also examine the impacts of various family structures and compare social orphans (non-orphaned children not living … with a biological parent) to orphans. Using household fixed-effects estimation, we provide evidence that children not …In this paper, we examine how orphanhood affects children’s educational and health outcomes in eleven sub …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901876
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The human capital selection of young males seeking asylum in Germany
Lange, Martin; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2018 - This version, August 29, 2018
This study analyses the selection of recently arrived asylum seekers from Middle Eastern and African countries in Germany. The findings suggest that, on average, asylum seekers have 22 percent more years of schooling - the indicator used for human capital - when compared to same-aged persons...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911066
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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436069
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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018
Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to identify the causal effect of increased learning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840590
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Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior : evidence from parental health shocks
Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Westermaier, Franz - 2011
In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting … significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009244239