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In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children’s development of personality traits and problem behavior. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting initial endowments observed at birth. ...
Mannheim:
Centre for European Economic Research,
2011,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-049)
| Brant Morefield, Andrea M. Mühlenweg, Franz Westermaier
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2005,
| Almudena Moreno, Enrique Crespo
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How can we evaluate the redistributive effect of welfare states? Do tax and transfer systems reduce the level of inequality generated in the market? In order to answer these questions, we need to be equipped with adequate measures of redistribution. Current measures employed in the sociology and politics of redistribution are seriously flawed. This paper elaborates the reasons why we cannot rely on ...
Luxembourg:
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),
2009,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 513)
| Juan Rafael Morillas
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In:
Craig A. Parsons, Timothy M. Smeeding ,
Immigration and the Transformation of Europe
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
172-199
| Ann Morrisens
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Brussels:
European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes (ENEPRI),
2004,
(ENEPRI Occasional Paper No. 6)
| Joergen Mortensen, C. Katharina Spieß, Costa-Font Thorsten Schneider, Concepcio Patxot
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Berlin:
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB),
1997,
| Hugh Mosley, Stefan Speckesser
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Berlin:
Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB),
1997,
(WZB Discussion Paper No. FS I 97-208)
| Share Mosley, Stefan Speckesser
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Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2008,
(SOEPpapers 147)
| Monika Sander
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Istanbul:
2009,
| Monika Sander
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The so-called 'healthy immigrant effect' (HIE) is one of the most striking findings concerning immigrants and their health status. It is usually said to consist of two parts: According to the first part, immigrants upon arrival are on average healthier than their native peers. This finding is mostly explained by self-selection among their origin population. The idea is that healthier individuals ...
2009,
| Monika Sander