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
- 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
- Sensitivity analysis
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Informal care and long-term labor market outcomes
- III Consequences of the educational expansion
- Heterogeneity in marginal non-monetary returns to higher education
- Introduction
- Institutional background and exogenous variation
- Empirical strategy
- Data
- Results
- 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
- Data and empirical strategy
- Baseline results
- The effect of the college expansion on educational participation
- The effect of college education on fertility
- Heterogeneity and potential mechanisms
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- More teachers, smarter students? Potential side effects of the German educational expansion
- IV Concluding remarks