Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder

Publications (4)6.26 Total impact

• Article: The effect of fat mass on educational attainment: examining the sensitivity to different identification strategies.

  Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder, George Davey Smith, Debbie A Lawlor, Carol Propper, Frank Windmeijer
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  ABSTRACT: The literature that examines the relationship between child or adolescent Body Mass Index (BMI) and academic attainment generally finds mixed results. This may be due to the use of different data sets, conditioning variables, or methodologies: studies either use an individual fixed effects (FE) approach and/or an instrumental variable (IV) specification. Using one common dataset, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, and a common set of controls, this paper compares the different approaches (including using different types of IV's), discusses their appropriateness, and contrasts their findings. We show that, although the results differ depending on the approach, most estimates cannot be statistically distinguished from OLS, nor from each other. Examining the potential violations of key assumptions of the different approaches and comparing their point estimates, we conclude that fat mass is unlikely to be causally related to academic achievement in adolescence.
  Economics and human biology 06/2012; 10(4):405-18. · 2.02 Impact Factor
• Article: Mendelian randomization: the use of genes in instrumental variable analyses.

  Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder, George Davey Smith, Debbie A Lawlor, Carol Propper, Frank Windmeijer
  Health Economics 05/2011; 20(8):893-6. · 2.12 Impact Factor
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  Article: Maternal employment and overweight children: does timing matter?

  Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder
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  ABSTRACT: Recent literature has shown consistent evidence of a positive relationship between maternal employment and children's overweight status. These studies largely use average weekly work hours over the child's life to measure employment. This paper specifically aims at exploring the importance of the timing of employment. Using various econometric techniques to control for observable and unobservable child and family characteristics, the results show that full-time maternal employment during mid-childhood positively affects the probability of being overweight at age 16. There is no evidence that part-time or full-time employment at earlier/later ages affects this probability.
  Health Economics 06/2008; 17(8):889-906. · 2.12 Impact Factor
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  Article: Smarter Task Assignment or Greater Effort: The Impact of Incentives on Team Performance

  Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Marisa Ratto, Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder, StephanievonHinke KesslerScholder, Emma Tominey
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  ABSTRACT: We use an experiment to study the impact of team-based incentives, exploiting rich data from personnel records and management information systems. Using a triple difference design, we show that the incentive scheme had an impact on team performance, even with quite large teams. We examine whether this effect was due to increased effort from workers or strategic task reallocation. We find that the provision of financial incentives did raise individual performance but that managers also disproportionately reallocated efficient workers to the incentivised tasks. We show that this reallocation was the more important contributor to the overall outcome. Copyright © The Author(s). Journal compilation © Royal Economic Society 2009.
  Economic Journal. 120(547):968-989.