. 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 …

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. …

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our … results show substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate …

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identfication of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

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 …

We argue that independent entitlement to income is important. This implies that earnings replacement benefits paid to …. The argument also highlights the need to consider gender differences in the receipt of income. We explore the implications …

2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …