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In:
Review of Income and Wealth
52 (2006), 2, 261-284
| Robert G. Valletta
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We evaluate social progress on the basis of panel data on individual incomes by comparing the value of social welfare in the observed panel data to its value in a situation where individuals receive their first period income in each period. We derive necessary conditions for the welfare gain to be positive, and show how it can be decomposed in an effect of economic growth, a mobility effect and a cost ...
In:
Journal of Comparative Economics
49 (2021), 1, 164-182
| Dirk Van de gaer, Flaviana Palmisano
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At the crossroads of economics and human biology, this paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent studies have found a negative association between conditions at ages 8-12 and the grandchild’s overall and cardiovascular and diabetes mortality in a single historical dataset. It has been argued ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2014,
(IZA DP No. 7999)
| Gerard J. Van den Berg, Pia R. Pinger
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This paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent findings from the biological literature suggest that age 8-12 is a critical period for male germ cell development. We build on this evidence and investigate whether undernutrition at that age biologically transmits to children and grandchildren. ...
In:
Economics & Human Biology
23 (2016), December 2016, 103-120
| Gerard J. Van den Berg, Pia R. Pinger
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We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain samples from European countries and include birth cohorts exposed to various famines in the twentieth century. We use two-sample IV estimation to deal with imperfect recollection ...
In:
Economic Journal
126 (2016), 591, 465-506
| Gerard J. Van den Berg, Pia R. Pinger, Johannes Schoch
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Wenn es um die Frage der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf geht, wird meist die Betreuungsproblematik von erwerbswilligen und erwerbstätigen Müttern mit Kleinkindern betrachtet. Diese Analysen zeigen jedoch, dass ein Ausbau der Betreuung von Schulkindern in Deutschland ähnliche Effekte erzielen kann wie die vielfach diskutierte und anlysierte Wirkung der Kleinkindbetreuung. Auf Basis der Daten des ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2013,
(SOEPpapers 573)
| Verena Tobsch
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In:
Efas Newsletter
(2009), 13, 4-5
| Verena Tobsch, Simon Fietze, Elke Holst
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Working-time political debates often focus on options for flexible and variable working hours. Meanwhile, employees' desire for more time sovereignty is gaining relevance. Although working time preferences and their impact on the German labor market are investigated in numerous studies, findings are inconsistent, varying with the data set, including the formulation and placement of questions in ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2019,
(SOEPpapers 1032)
| Verena Tobsch, Elke Holst
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Arbeitszeitwünsche von Beschäftigten rücken in der jüngsten Vergangenheit stärker in den Fokus der öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Debatte. Dabei kommen repräsentative Studien für Deutschland hinsichtlich der Frage von Über- und Unterbeschäftigung zu sehr unterschiedlichen bis kontroversen Befunden, deren Ursache nicht allein durch Definitionen und Abgrenzungen der Stichproben zu erklären sind. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2018,
(SOEPpapers 960)
| Verena Tobsch, Wenzel Matiaske, Elke Holst, Tanja Schmidt, Hartmut Seifert
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Wirtschaftswoche,
2014,
| Claudia Tödtmann