This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children’s later consumption of alcohol … effect is more prominent in the upper tail than elsewhere in the distribution of children’s alcohol consumption, conventional … regression analyses that focus on the mean effect may substantially underrate parental drinking as a risk factor for children …

today's students. The educational expansion was a demand shock in the labor market of teachers, which could have thus …-affected teacher with an educational expansion teacher leads to a 2 percent reduction in students' test scores. Explorative analyses …

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 …

In this paper the relationship between parental unemployment at time of children’s labor market entrance on the quality … of their children’s first job is analyzed. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1991 … negative correlation between fathers’ unemployment at the time of children’s labor market entrance and their children’s first …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the income distribution. Empirically, we conduct a survey experiment in … Austria and show that the average treatment effect of information on perceptions is mostly driven by higher income individuals … while low-income respondents hardly react. We replicate this result for the United States and Germany using data from two …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

returns to citizenship on children’s school performance and skill development. For identification, we use two national reforms … propensity of take-up. Citizenship significantly improves the school performance of immigrant children but has only modest … Fähigkeiten der Kinder von Zugewanderten. Die Identifikation der Effekte beruht auf zwei nationalen Reformen, die die Einbürgerung …