This paper examines the impact of outdoor pollution and parental smoking on children's health from birth until the age of three years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution levels. These data were provided by the Federal Environment Agency and cover the years 2002 to 2007. Our work makes two important contributions....
C. Katharina Spieß, Katja Coneus
Köln,
09.02.2012
- 11.02.2012| Sitzung des Ausschusses für Bevölkerungsökonomik des Vereins für Socialpolitik
Karsten Neuhoff, Anne Schopp, Rodney Boyd, Alexander Vasa, Kateryna Stelmakh
Brüssel, Belgien,
08.02.2012
| Stepping-Up the Role of the ETS in EU Energy Sector Decarbonisation: Seminar. IDDRI and Bruegel
Tilman Brück
Brüssel, Belgien,
06.02.2012
- 07.02.2012| European Security Economics: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward: Final Workshop of the EUSECON Project
Tilman Brück
Brüssel, Belgien,
06.02.2012
- 07.02.2012| European Security Economics: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward: Final Workshop of the EUSECON Project
Neil Ferguson
Brüssel, Belgien,
06.02.2012
- 07.02.2012| European Security Economics: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward: Final Workshop of the EUSECON Project
Anja Shortland
Brüssel, Belgien,
06.02.2012
- 07.02.2012| European Security Economics: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward: Final Workshop of the EUSECON Project
Seo-Young Cho
Göttingen,
03.02.2012
- 04.02.2012| Workshop Program Human Trafficking, International Crime and National Security: A Human Rights Perspective: Workshop of the Project Indexing Trafficking in Human Beings
Thilo Grau
Appenzell, Schweiz,
29.01.2012
- 03.02.2012| Technical Change towards a Low-Carbon Society - The Role of Institutions and Actors: ETH PhD Academy on Sustainability and Technology 2012. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Given the growing dissatisfaction with exclusion and long-run restrictions in structural vector autoregressive analysis, sign restrictions are becoming increasingly popular. So far there are no techniques for validating the shocks identified via such restrictions. Although in an ideal setting the sign restrictions specify shocks of interest, sign restrictions may be invalidated by measurement...
Helmut Lütkepohl, Aleksei Netsunajev
Frankfurt am Main,
27.01.2012
| Seminar: Deutsche Bundesbank
Ferdinand Fichtner
Berlin,
27.01.2012
| Joint Workshop on the Euro Crisis: Organized by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the Brandt School, the Free University Berlin and the University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economy Berlin
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...
Elisabeth Bügelmayer, C. Katharina Spieß
Zürich, Schweiz,
27.01.2012
- 28.01.2012| Jahrestagung des Bildungsökonomischen Ausschusses des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2012
A personal bankruptcy law that allows for a "fresh start" after bankruptcy reduces the individual risk involved in entrepreneurial activity. On the other hand, as risk shifts to creditors who recover less of their credit after a debtor's bankruptcy, lenders may charge higher interest rates or ration credit supply, which can hamper entrepreneurship. Both aspects of a more forgiving personal...
Frank M. Fossen
Malakoff, Frankreich,
26.01.2012
| Séminaires CREST