We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …-born German children and non-existent for children from guestworker households. Income effects are also small relative to the … late-childhood income is a more important determinant of outcomes than early-childhood income, and income effects are not …

children of less-educated or foreign-born parents benefit most from day care, making it important to understand the causes of …We document day care enrolment gaps by family background for children under 3 in Germany. Research demonstrates that …

Despite increasing access to university education, students from disadvantaged or non-academic family backgrounds are … from a German randomized controlled trial in which students in high schools were treated with information on the benefits … increases intended college enrollment for students from a non-academic family background, while it leads students from academic …

Although the proportion of students enrolled in college increased in the last decades, students from non-college family … information in a randomized controlled trial with more than 1,000 German high school students results in higher college enrollment … rates. One year prior to high school graduation, we treated students in randomly selected schools by giving an in …

Taxation changes the expectations of prospective university students about their future level and uncertainty of after …-tax income. To estimate the impact of taxes on university enrollment, we develop and estimate a structural microeconometric model … variance of net income for German high-school graduates, using only information available to those graduates at the time of the …