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Financial literacy predicts informed financial decisions, but what explains financial literacy? We use the concept of financial socialization and aim to represent three major agents of financial socialization: family, school and work. Thus we compile twelve relevant childhood characteristics in a new survey study and examine their relation to financial literacy, while controlling for established socio-demographic ...
In:
Journal of Economic Psychology
51 (2015), S. 114-133
| Antonia Grohmann, Roy Kouwenberg, Lukas Menkhoff
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Externe Monographien
Das vorliegende Kurz-Gutachten beschreibt die Einkommensentwicklung und Armutslagen von Kindern, Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen in Baden-Württemberg und Deutschland insgesamt. Der Bericht gliedert sich in vier Teile: Im ersten Teil werden kurz die verwendeten Einkommen, Methoden und Operationalisierungen sowie die verwendete Datenbasis – SOEPv30l[beta] - beschrieben. Die aktuellen Analysen für ...
Berlin ; Stuttgart:
Statist. Landesamt Baden-Württemberg ; DIW Berlin,
2015,
37 S.
| Peter Krause, Tanja Kraus
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DIW Discussion Papers 1534 / 2015
This paper analyzes the short- and long-term impact of extreme weather events on educational outcomes in Mongolia. Our focus is on two extremely severe winters that caused mass livestock mortality. We use household panel data with comprehensive retrospective information on households’ historic experience with weather shocks. Exposure to the weather shock significantly reduces the likelihood of being ...
2015| Valeria Groppo, Kati Krähnert
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SOEPpapers 810 / 2015
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 opportunity to learn a musical instrument. Moreover, policymakers present these programs as innovative policies ...
2015| Adrian Hille
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SOEPpapers 808 / 2015
Does being from a higher social class lead a person to engage in more or less prosocial behavior? Psychological research has recently provided support for a negative effect of social class on prosocial behavior. However, research outside the field of psychology has mainly found evidence for positive or u-shaped relations. In the present research, we therefore thoroughly examined the effect of social ...
2015| Martin Korndörfer, Boris Egloff, Stefan C. Schmukle
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DIW Discussion Papers 1532 / 2015
The study focuses on the question of whether productivity estimates are biased due to the emergence of a new input that is usually omitted: temporary agency worker (TAW). The study analyzes labor productivity and TFP by means of a structural approach using a representative dataset of German manufacturing firms. The empirical results show, once TAW is taken into account, that: i) labor productivity ...
2015| Alexander Schiersch
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DIW Wochenbericht 50 / 2015
Durch die Elterngeldreform 2007 und den Ausbau der Kindertageseinrichtungen der letzten Jahre sind in Deutschland Rahmenbedingungen geschaffen worden, die eine gleichmäßigere Aufteilung der Erwerbs- und Familienarbeit erleichtern sollen. Dieser Beitrag untersucht, ob die Länge der Elternzeit beider Elternteile die Aufteilung der Familienarbeit mittelfristig beeinflusst, wenn beide Partner wieder erwerbstätig ...
2015| Pia S. Schober, Gundula Zoch
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SOEPpapers 805 / 2015
This paper is the first to estimate the causal effect of local human capital stock on individual adiposity and adds to the existing literature on estimating human capital externalities at the neighborhood level. We explore the possible causal pathways that college-educated neighbors exert on individual body weight, with the results revealing small yet significant human capital spillover effects. Among ...
2015| Rui Dang
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DIW Roundup 79 / 2015
The time fathers spend and the activities they perform with children have risen continuously in most Western countries. Increasing father involvement in child care has also been an explicit policy objective with many European countries implementing individual parental leave entitlements for fathers. Whereas these policies mainly aimed at facilitating reconciliation of market work and family care and ...
2015| Pia S. Schober
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DIW Roundup 73 / 2015
Die öffentlich finanzierte Kindertagesbetreuung hat in Deutschland in letzter Zeit sowohl politisch und medial als auch wissenschaftlich erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Die Schaffung von Betreuungsplätzen stand dabei im Vordergrund. Eher vernachlässigt wurde die Verbesserung der Qualität frühkindlicher Bildung und Betreuung, obwohl Studien ihr eine hohe Bedeutung hinsichtlich der Förderung kindlicher ...
2015| Juliane F. Stahl