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 …

parents carried over to the entire family, making special groups of children worse off than others? To answer this question …Can moving to an earnings-related parental leave system influence children's wellbeing and are heterogeneous effects on … benefit amount compared to the pre-reform situation. 2-3-year-old children belonging to the reform's winners, however, improve …

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …

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

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 …

This paper evaluates how a light-touch parenting program for parents of children below school entry age affects … maternal well-being. We first analyze data from a randomized controlled trial focusing on more advantaged parents. Second, we …

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 …

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

performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students … performance and change in major. And in the long run it did not produce any difference in income or labor market outcomes. We do …