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Three empirical essays on the long-run consequences of early-life living conditions

Neelsen, Sven - 2012

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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality? : conference paper

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2014 - November 11, 2013

We show that parental socioeconomic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism that are important noncognitive skills, as well as crystallized, fluid, and...

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The impact of extreme weather events on child health : evidence from Mongolia ; conference paper

Groppo, Valeria; Schindler, Kati - 2014 - Draft

This paper investigates the impact of a devastating weather shock on child anthropometrics, using data from Mongolia. We employ a diff-in-diff strategy to identify the effect of an extremely harsh winter in 2010, which caused the death of about 20 percent of the national livestock. Results...

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Essays in applied microeconomics

Pantano, Juan - 2008

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Cultural influences on the fertility behaviour of first- and second-generation immigrants in Germany : conference paper

Stichnoth, Holger; Yeter, Mustafa - 2013

Using an epidemiological approach, we study the cultural influence on fertility outcomes of first- and second … fertility rates from the year of migration, survey measures of fertility norms and cohort fertility rates from the year of birth … identification. We find a statistically significant, sizeable and robust impact of country-of-origin fertility rates on fertility …

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The effect of early universal daycare on child weight problems : conference paper

Lauber, Verena; Thomas, Lampert - 2014 - Preliminary version

As the number of young children in daycare increases, people start to worry about the effect of early non-parental care. This is of special relevance as investments in the early periods of life are shown to be most important for a child’s long term development. Based on the German national...

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Gender power, fertility, and family policy : conference paper

Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - 2013

show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. …

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Early life adversity and children's competence development : evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk ; conference paper

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2013

This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from birth to adolescence. Results indicate that organic and psychosocial risks present in...

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Essays on endogenous lifetime, economic growth and income inequality

Sarkar, Jayanta - 2006

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Three essays on endogenous growth in open economics

Pozzolo, Alberto Franco - 1999

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