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 …

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and …

for education play a larger role in determining income at age 25 than cognitive skills. Last, our analysis uncovers …

schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on … discontinuity design around the school enrollment cutoff and an instrumental variable approach I show that children's schooling … improves the integration of parents along several dimensions, such as labor market outcomes, financial worries, and German …

Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … citizenship or not. We find that the policy caused immigrant parents to (i) send their children to preschool more often; (ii … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool …

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 …