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Does family poverty affect the health of newborn children?

Does Money Buy Higher Schooling? Evidence from Secondary School Track Choice in Germany

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the German Socio-Economic Panel for the birth ...

Fathers' Parental Leave-Taking, Childcare Involvement and Mothers’ Labor Market Participation

This study analyzes the effect of fathers’ parental leave-taking on the time fathers spend with their children and on mothers’ and fathers’ labor supply. Fathers’ leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies on within-father differences in leave-taking for first and higher order children that were triggered by a policy reform promoting more gender equality in leave-taking. ...

The Effect of Unempolyment Insurance on Unemployment Duration and the Subsequent Employment Stability

Residential Mobility and Housing Adjustment of Older Households in Europe

Unemployment Insurance in Europe: Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Employment Stability

The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitions to Employment and Early Retirement for Older Workers in Four European Countries

Geographic labour mobility and unemployment insurance in Europe

Job Displacement and the Transition to Re-Employment and Early Retirement for Non-Employed Older Workers across Institutional Environments

Despite the relatively higher frequency of job displacement among older workers in Europe, little is known on its effect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for a number of countries with differences in their institutional environments, the effect of job displacement for non-employed workers is identified separately for the transitions ...

Stability of Risk Attitudes and Media Coverage of Economic News

This paper investigates the impact of exogenous changes in individuals' perceived economic environment on their self-stated risk attitudes by exploiting changes in media coverage of economic news. We use information on risk attitudes from the German Socioeconomic Panel and combine it with data on the average daily frequency of economic news reports during the year and the month preceding the date ...