vocational training nor the occupational position of the parents in childhood, which both correlate with household income, can … Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life … expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as …

This paper studies the intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on students' transitions after completing … adverse impact of parental unemployment on children's educational transitions. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio … mediation analysis suggests that the effect of paternal unemployment is not due to the loss of income, but relates to the …

The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in … secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income. We use sibling fixed effects models and … information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to …

around the first childbirth. By analyzing the German Socioeconomic Panel Survey data, we find that high-income parents enjoy … these findings in terms of preferences among different groups of parents and the differential costs of children - the latter …We investigate the role of individual labor income as moderator of the parental subjective well-being trajectories …

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …

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 …

first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation …

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 …