compositions. Today, the descendants of these immigrants live and work in their parents destination countries. This paper presents …

native and foreign born fathers. We illustrate within a simple model that for immigrants, investment in their children is …

labor market outcomes of children. Evaluation of three policy reforms as opposed to a single reform enables us to analyze … the reforms by comparing outcomes of children born shortly before and shortly after a change in maternity leave … support for the hypothesis that an expansion in maternity leave legislation improves children's outcomes. Given the precision …

are consistent with these grades being insufficiently salient for students to alter actual student behaviors …

association between parents' and children's fluency, conditional on parental and family characteristics. We find that language … immigrants, we can follow their children after they have left the parental home. Our results show a sizeable significant …

Without a school degree, students can have difficulty in the labor market. To improve the lives of upper …-secondary school dropouts, German states instituted a school reform that awarded an interim degree to high-track students upon …-track completion, university entrance rates, and later income, arguably by reducing the perceived risk of trying longer in the high …

- on school performance. We combine data from the National Educational Panel Study covering 5348 primary school students …

children with lower (observed and unobserved) gains are more likely to select into child care than children with higher gains …. This pattern of reverse selection on gains is driven by unobserved family background characteristics: children from … disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment …

-- on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic …