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Measuring Cognitive Ability

The assessment of cognitive abilities is critical in large-scale survey studies that aim at elucidating the longitudinal interplay between the individual’s cognitive potential and socio-economic variables. The format of such studies calls for assessment methods that not only can be efficiently administered, but also show a high level of (psychometric) measurement quality. In consideration of recent ...

The Effect of Maternal Education on Offspring's Mental Health

We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother’s children in late adolescence and adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children’s mental health. To identify the causal effect of maternal education, we exploit exogenous variation in maternal years of schooling, caused by a compulsory schooling law reform ...

Kaum Effekte einer höheren Pflichtschulzeit bei Müttern auf die psychische Gesundheit ihrer erwachsenen Kinder

Psychische Erkrankungen, beispielsweise Depressionen, haben in den vergangenen Jahrzenten weltweit an Bedeutung gewonnen. Da diese nicht nur mit erheblichen Einschränkungen für die Betroffenen selbst verbunden sind, sondern auch einen hohen Kostenfaktor für die Allgemeinheit darstellen, wird die Frage nach potentiellen Einflussfaktoren immer relevanter. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht auf Basis des ...

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Einkommen Älterer wächst

Verfügbare Gelder der 65- bis 74-Jährigen legen seit den 80ern um 52 Prozent zu / Aber auch ein wachsendes Armutsrisiko im Ruhestand.

The effects of works councils on overtime hours

This study analyzes the relation between works councils and overtime hours in Germany. The estimated effects differ considerably in dependence of standard contracted working time. Furthermore, we find differences across the quantiles of the overtime hours distribution and these differences between quantiles also vary between employees of establishment with and without works councils. By considering ...

Analyse der Panelausfälle im Sozio-oekonomischen Panel SOEP

Panelerhebungen der amtlichen Statistik als Datenquellen für die Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Panel data have numerous advantages to cross sectional data. Data from official statistical offices (and other public authorities) are a valuable data source for the social and economic sciences. Many of these data originally are panel data (or can be combined to form panel data). This article gives an overview on panel data (households or persons) and panel surveys conducted by German public authorities, ...

Compensating disadvantageous life events : social origin differences in the effects of family and sibling characteristics on educational outcomes (dissertation)

This thesis is a collection of four empirical studies which analyze the effects of family and sibling characteristics on educational outcomes. The analysis in all empirical studies is guided by the compensatory effect of social origin hypothesis according to which higher social origin families can reduce the negative impact of disadvantageous characteristics and life events on their children's ...

When Growing Up Without a Parent Does Not Hurt: Parental Separation and the Compensatory Effect of Social Origin

This article investigates how the negative impact of parental separation on children’s educational outcomes varies with social origin. In particular, I test the compensatory class hypothesis which postulates that higher class families compensate the negative effects of disadvantageous life events, such as parental separation. I apply family-fixed effects models to control for unmeasured confounding ...