We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …-born German children and non-existent for children from guestworker households. Income effects are also small relative to the … late-childhood income is a more important determinant of outcomes than early-childhood income, and income effects are not …

obesity. There is some evidence, however, that high income children are better able to cope with the adverse consequences of …We use newly available data from Germany to study the relationship between parental income and child health. We find a … strong gradient between parental income and subjective child health as has been documented earlier in the US, Canada and the …

developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation …

effects prevail even after ontrolling for labour market and income-related factors. The findings are pronounced in Germany and …

distance between adult children and elderly parents. Given current population trends, understanding how different … estimate the causal effect of sibship size on the geographic distance between older parents and adult children by using a large … responsibility of care for older parents to be shared among more siblings, possibly decreasing individual involvement and relaxing …

Taxation changes the expectations of prospective university students about their future level and uncertainty of after …-tax income. To estimate the impact of taxes on university enrollment, we develop and estimate a structural microeconometric model … variance of net income for German high-school graduates, using only information available to those graduates at the time of the …

promote income. Using endogenous switching regression models, we show that local familial networks increase the income of …

immigrants and foreigners. On average we find that children in Germany to have lost out in terms of their relative income …. As a result of the low educational level of their parents we find children born to immigrants and foreigners in Germany … Probleme für deren Kinder. Als Ergebnis des geringen Bildungsniveaus ihrer Eltern sind Kinder von Immigranten und Ausländern …

We test empirically whether people?s life satisfaction depends on their relative income position in the neighbourhood … population characteristics. Relative deprivation theory suggests that individuals are happier the better their relative income … with controls for own income and for neighbourhood income at the zip-code level (roughly 9,000 people). There exist no …