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 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 …

the educational attainments of parents and those of their children overstates considerably the causal effect of parents …The paper shows that parents? education is an important, but hardly exclusive part of the common family background that …? education on the education of their children. Our estimates based on Norwegian twin-mothers indicate that an additional year of …

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields …

parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …

We study the optimal design of student financial aid as a function of parental income. We derive optimal financial aid … formulas in a general model. For a simple model version, we derive mild conditions on primitives under which poorer students …, labor supply in college, and uncertain returns. Optimal financial aid is strongly declining in parental income even without …

parents play in the formation of deep green political attitudes in their children. Using a series of multiple logistic … regressions on a pooled sample of children aged 11 to 16 (n=6,590) it is observed that compared to any other political party the … fathers on their children and provided the parent is more likely to be politically aligned with ideals of ecologism, this …

a cohort of English teenagers in compulsory education. Our results support a situation in which parents "tax" their … children's earnings, withdrawing financial support as the child increases his working hours. This strategy forces the child to …