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Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?

This paper investigates the impact of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows. According to economic theory, there are two opposing effects of unknown magnitude. The scale effect of legalized prostitution leads to an expansion of the prostitution market, increasing human trafficking, while the substitution effect reduces demand for trafficked women as legal prostitutes are favored over...

The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills during Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Spite and Cognitive Skills in Preschoolers

Although spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation, there is little evidence on spiteful behavior and its determinants in children. We investigate the relationship between children¿s cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214 preschoolers aged 5-6 and their mothers. Other-regarding behavior of both mothers and children is elicited...

The Effect of Health and Employment Risks on Precautionary Savings

Political Socialization in Flux? Linking Family Non-intactness during Childhood to Adult Civic Engagement

Does Job Loss Make You Smoke and Gain Weight?

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly, but significantly. In particular, single individuals as well as those with lower health or socioeconomic...

Trick or Treat? Maternal Involuntary Job Loss and Children's Non-cognitive Skills

Estimating Heterogeneous Returns to Education

Wage Mobility in East and West Germany

Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification: First Evidence from Panel Data

Inferences in Experimental Markets with Diverse Information

Integrating Intermittent Renewable Wind Generation: Insights from a Stochastic Electricity Market Model

Integrierte Szenarien der Raumentwicklung in Deutschland: welche Trends sind entwicklungsprägend?

Intangibles, Can They Explain the Dispersion in Return Rates?

Das Branchengefüge der deutschen Wirtschaft in den 30er Jahren: Ergebnisse einer Input-Output-Tabelle für 1936

Dezentralisierung der Energieversorgung: Sozial ökonomisch?: Podiumsdiskussion

Current Account Imbalances in the Euro Area: Does Catching up Explain the Development?

Macroeconomic Developments in Germany and the World Economy

Productivity in German Manufacturing Firms: Does Fixed-Term Employment Matter?