This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children's later consumption of alcohol … effect is more prominent in the upper tail than elsewhere in the distribution of children's alcohol consumption, conventional … regression analyses that focus on the mean effect may substantially underrate parental drinking as a risk factor for children …

heterogeneity in the impact of income on health satisfaction. Adjusting for unobserved heterogeneity accounts for the relationship … between income and very good health, but not between income and poorer health states. The income gradient for older age …

-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … the partner. Exploiting the panel structure of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the results suggest that children … associated income drop. Strokes of fate have no direct effect but if they come along with changes in household composition, the …

parents or job and location restrictions for children hamper informal care provision by one's children. … wealth on receiving attention from on's children. This paper illustrates that these results from the past should be … interpreted with some care as the relationship between wealth and children's attention is sensitive to the type of financial …

Das Papier analysiert den Effekt des Zeitpunktes der ersten Geburt auf spätere Löhne der Eltern. In einer empirischen …