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Socioemotional Development during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Macro Shock

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Azmat, Ghazala ; Kaufmann, Katja ; Özdemir, Yasemin:
Socioemotional Development during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Macro Shock.
Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224
Bonn ; Mannheim , 2024 . - 47 p. - (Discussion Paper Series - CRC TR 224 ; 506 )

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CRC TR 224 (project C 01)
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Project financing: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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We exploit a large quasi-exogenous shock to study the development of socioemotional skills during early adolescence and their links to long-term behavior and labor market outlook. Using novel, longitudinal, microdata on cohorts of East German adolescents before and after a large macro shock (the German Reunification), we causally estimate the impact on socioemotional skills (self-confidence and impulse control), finding negative effects in the short run. These effects are substantially larger among those affected by the shock in early adolescence (13-14 years old), relative to later adolescence (16-17 years old). Changes in socioemotional skills have a lasting (negative) impact on them as adults, especially among those affected early in their adolescence, in terms of externalizing behavior (e.g., physical fighting), behavioral control problems (i.e., substance abuse), internalizing behavior (i.e., mental health) and in their (labor-market) optimism and expectations. This study highlights the permanent effects of uncertainty on socioemotional skills during formative years.

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Item Type: Working paper, discussion paper
Keywords: Socioemotional skills; adolescence; behavior; health; labor market outlook
Subject classification: D91, I12, I31, J13, J16, J24
Institutions of the University: Faculties
Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics
Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Economics
Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Economics > Chair Economics I - Empirical Macroeconomics and Family Economics
Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Economics > Chair Economics I - Empirical Macroeconomics and Family Economics > Chair Economics I - Empirical Macroeconomics and Family Economics - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Katja Kaufmann
Result of work at the UBT: Yes
DDC Subjects: 300 Social sciences
300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
Date Deposited: 16 Oct 2024 10:16
Last Modified: 16 Oct 2024 10:16
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/90611