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1. Effects of education on long-term mental health : evidence from increasing years of compulsory schooling in Germany
Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Schmitt, Maike;2024
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
2. Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany
abstractWe estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable estimation exploiting the exogenous variation in month of birth. We find robust and significant positive effects on educational attainment for pupils who enter school at seven instead of six years of age: Test scores at the end of primary school increase by about 0.42 standard deviations and years of secondary schooling increase by almost half a year
Puhani, Patrick A.; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.;2021
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Citations: 14 (based on OpenCitations)
3. Educational Effects of Early or Later Secondary School Tracking in Germany
abstractThis paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade. Regression results indicate that, estimated on the mean, there are no negative effects of later tracking on educational outcomes in the middle of secondary school. Positive effects are observed for pupils with a less favorable family background. Quantile regressions reveal that the estimated effects of later tracking are positive for the lower quantiles but decrease monotonically over the conditional distribution of test scores
Mühlenweg, Andrea M.;2018
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Citations: 7 (based on OpenCitations)
4. Impacts of parental health shocks on children’s non-cognitive skills
abstractWe examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health shocks in the previous three years have significant negative effects on children’s behavioral outcomes. The most serious of these maternal health shocks decrease the observed non-cognitive skills up to half a standard deviation. Paternal health does not robustly affect non-cognitive outcomes. -- Human capital ; health ; non-cognitive skills
Westermaier, Franz; Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.;2013
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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5. Impacts of parental health shocks on children's non-cognitive skills
abstractWe examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health shocks in the previous three years have significant negative effects on children's behavioral outcomes. The most serious of these maternal health shocks decrease the observed non-cognitive skills up to half a standard deviation. Paternal health does not robustly affect non-cognitive outcomes. -- Human capital ; health ; non-cognitive skills
Westermaier, Franz; Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.;2013
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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Link 6. Impacts of parental health shocks on children's non-cognitive skills
abstractWe examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health shocks in the previous three years have significant negative effects on children's behavioral outcomes. The most serious of these maternal health shocks decrease the observed non-cognitive skills up to half a standard deviation. Paternal health does not robustly affect non-cognitive outcomes. -- human capital ; health ; non-cognitive skills
Westermaier, Franz; Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.;2013
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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7. Learning intensity effects in students' mental and physical health : evidence from a large scale natural experiment in Germany
abstractIn this study, we analyze health effects of a recent education reform in Germany exposing students to increased schooling intensity. The reform shortened the higher secondary education track by one year. As the overall curriculum required for graduation was held constant, this led to an increase in instruction hours in the remaining school years. The reform has been introduced at different points in time across federal states, providing us with a difference-in-difference setup for analysis. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), our results imply that the reform significantly reduced adolescents' self-rated mental health status. The overall effect on the mental component summary score (MCS) is about a quarter of a standard deviation. Examining MCS sub-dimensions, we find detrimental effects of the reform on vitality and on emotional balance. We also observe significant impacts on self-assessed general physical health.
Hofmann, Sarah; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.;2017
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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8. Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior : evidence from parental health shocks
abstractIn 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. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health shocks in early childhood have significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for the development of these non-cognitive characteristics. However, we observe that paternal health shocks cause children to be more extraverted. -- Human capital ; health ; personality traits ; non-cognitive skills
Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Westermaier, Franz;2011
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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Link Link 9. Effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of non-cognitive skills : evidence from psychometric data
abstractWe identify effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of child temperament. Our analysis is based on psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with a higher ASE due to a birthday late in the year, we find more favorable outcomes with respect to several temperamental dimensions: These children are more persistent and less often hyperactive. The findings are robust if we control for the respective temperamental dimension before entering school. We also show that the ASE effect on persistence is stable over time by comparing the children at age eight and age eleven, after the children have entered Germany's segregated secondary-school tracks. At age eleven, we additionally find significant ASE effects on adaptability to change. Overall, the results point to a high degree of malleability in the considered non-cognitive skills after school entrance. -- Education ; identification ; instrumental variables ; age at school entry (ASE)
Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Blomeyer, Dorothea; Laucht, Manfred;2011
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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10. Orphans at risk in Sub-Saharan Africa : evidence on educational and health outcomes
abstractIn this paper, we examine how orphanhood affects children’s educational and health outcomes in eleven sub-Saharan African countries. Our analysis is based on a comparison of orphans and non-orphaned children living under the same conditions. We also examine the impacts of various family structures and compare social orphans (non-orphaned children not living with a biological parent) to orphans. Using household fixed-effects estimation, we provide evidence that children not living with a biological parent lag behind in education and are more often malnourished and stunted. Educational gaps are particularly evident among orphans and social orphans not living with a mother. The effect of paternal death or absence is rather modest in most countries. -- Orphans ; family structure ; human capital ; sub-Saharan Africa ; fixed-effects
Coneus, Katja; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.;2011
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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