compromise these results. We also discuss assortative mating and household income as possible channels of causality. …

Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) werden Personen betrachtet, die im Zeitablauf zu Eltern werden. Es ergibt sich ein … signifikant positiver Effekt von Kinder im Haushalt. Weiterhin werden Interaktionsterme gebildet, um Effekte individueller …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …

children. Using data for Germany, we find that an economic downturn, coupled with increased unemployment, affects children …'s education attainment negatively. In terms of monetary units, the average effect of the 1993 German recessionon children …'s educational attainment corresponds to a loss of average monthly household equivalence income of about 50%. A second important …

, our results further support the advice to parents of young children not to smoke. …This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …

the literature. However, family structure provides a rather static view of the relationship of children's living … focuses on the impact of family instability on children. In light of human capital accumulation, we hypothesize that a stable … preschool children. By using sibling differences for our adolescents' sample, we find that multiple partnership transitions …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different … explain developmental gaps in children's non-cognitive skills. Our measure for children's noncognitive skills is their … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …