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
Content
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