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This paper examines the similarity in the association between earnings of sons and fathers in Germany and the United States. It relaxes the log-linear functional form imposed in most studies of the intergenerational earnings association. Theory implies the relationship between earnings of...
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. We assess this approach by comparing directly evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists of three …Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children's health … turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …
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naturalized children of guest workers, ethnic Germans, EU and third country immigrants. In line with previous research, I find … less adversely affected by low parental education than are the children of native Germans. …
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The paper shows that parents' education is an important, but hardly exclusive part of the common family background that … an additional year of either mother's or father's education increases their children's education by as little as one … better educated mothers work more in paid employment and spend less time interacting with their children. We test this …
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This paper compares the educational performance of the children of immigrants to the children in their parents' home …. Controlling for family background, I find that the children of immigrants in Germany perform better than peers in every origin …
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progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining … educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …
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We investigate the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of the two main investments that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort costs and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive,...
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In this paper, I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to investigate whether and how a German youth' s choice of secondary school (Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium) varies with the timing and duration of poverty experienced in childhood. To investigate what role the timing of...
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auch der zu ergreifenden Maßnahmen. Während die einen Kinder als Privatangelegenheit der Eltern ansehen, fordern die …
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für oder gegen Kinder zunächst einmal einzig und allein bei den Eltern liegen sollte, dass aber ex post die Argumente …
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