Nathan Fiala
Kampala, Uganda,
23.04.2012
- 24.04.2012| Post-Conflict Recovery and Development: The Case of Uganda: Workshop of the Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC)
This paper proposes a structural life-cycle model to analyze the relationship between health risks, early retirement and saving behavior for employees in Germany. I rely on the framework of a dynamic programming discrete choice model with a discretized saving decision. The model accounts for both forward looking behavior and unobserved heterogeneity which is specified seminonparametrically. Health...
Daniel Kemptner
Buch am Ammersee,
23.04.2012
- 29.04.2012| 15th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics
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...
Jan Marcus
Buch am Ammersee,
23.04.2012
- 29.04.2012| 15th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics
The study analyses the relationship between access to rural product markets and the extent and nature of child labour. It is built on the view that if physical markets can shape rural development through, for instance, influencing prices, household production decisions and employment, the associated activity growth could increase child labour. Using household survey data from Uganda, I find that...
Tony Muhumuza
Buch am Ammersee,
23.04.2012
- 29.04.2012| 15th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics
Negative effects of job loss on adults such as considerable fall in income have long been examined. If job loss has negative consequences for adults it may spread to their children. But potential effects on children's non-cognitive skills and the related mechanisms have been less examined. This paper uses propensity score matching to analyze maternal involuntary job loss and its potential causal...
Frauke H. Peter
Buch am Ammersee,
23.04.2012
- 29.04.2012| 15th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics
Vanessa von Schlippenbach, Isabel Teichmann
Berlin,
16.04.2012
| Development and Security Seminar: Intermediate Merger Incentives in a Three-Tier Industry Structure
Katharina Wrohlich
Berlin,
11.04.2012
| Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen: Labor Supply of Mothers with Young Children: Validating a Structural Model Using a Natural Experiment
Friederike Lenel
Enschede, Niederlande,
11.04.2012
- 13.04.2012| 2012 Research Conference on Microinsurance: Organised by Institute for Innovation and Governance Studies (IGS), DIW Berlin and Others
Franziska Bremus, Claudia M. Buch
Hamburg,
03.04.2012
- 04.04.2012| Macroeconomics, Finance and Real Estate: Workshop an der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / Universität der Bundeswehr
Marlene Karl
Hamburg,
03.04.2012
- 04.04.2012| Macroeconomics, Finance and Real Estate: Workshop an der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / Universität der Bundeswehr