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Individual consequences and public challenges of social change : six empirical essays in health economics and economics of education / von Matthias Westphal, Master of Science. Paderborn, 2018
Inhalt
I Introduction
II Consequences of the demographic transition
The long shadows of past insults – intergenerational transmission of health over 130 years
Introduction
Literature review
Data
Individual level data
Maternal disease environment in utero
Economic environment
Empirical strategy
Results
Explorative graphical analysis
Second generation mortality
Second generation SES outcomes
Tracing the health insult
Conclusion
Appendix
Short- and medium-term effects of informal care provision on female caregivers' health
Introduction
Institutional background
Empirical strategy
Data
Results
Matching quality
Estimation results
Sensitivity analysis
Conclusion
Appendix
Informal care and long-term labor market outcomes
Introduction
Institutional background
Data
Sample selection
Informal care paths
Outcome variables
Baseline analysis
Empirical strategy I – A static design
Control variables
Potential failure of the CIA
Estimation results – Static model
Sensitivity analysis
General framework
Choice of selection and outcome effects
Results
A dynamic design
Empirical strategy II
Estimation results – Dynamic model
Alternative specifications of the treatment variable
Conclusion
Appendix
III Consequences of the educational expansion
Heterogeneity in marginal non-monetary returns to higher education
Introduction
Institutional background and exogenous variation
The German higher educational system
Exogenous variation in college education over time
Empirical strategy
Data
Sample selection and college education
Dependent variables
Control variables
Instrument
Results
OLS
Marginal treatment effects
Treatment parameters
Potential mechanisms for health and cognitive abilities
Conclusion
Appendix
Fertility effects of college education: evidence from the German educational expansion
Introduction
Trends in fertility and education in Germany
The college expansion
Background and developments
Determinants of the college expansion
Data and empirical strategy
Survey data and important variables
Empirical strategy
Baseline results
The effect of the college expansion on educational participation
The effect of college education on fertility
Heterogeneity and potential mechanisms
Effect heterogeneity along age
Opportunities and revealed preferences for career and family life
Conclusion
Appendix
More teachers, smarter students? Potential side effects of the German educational expansion
Introduction
The market for teachers in Germany
Empirical strategy and theoretical mechanism
Empirical strategy
Theoretical mechanism
Data
Sample selection and student-teacher linking
Test score data
Descriptive statistics
Results
Effects on students' learning outcomes
Assessing the validity of the estimates
Detecting teacher selection in the characteristics of teachers
Conclusion
Appendix
IV Concluding remarks
Bibliography
List of Tables
List of Figures
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