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

inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of … their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in Germany an important decision about which educational track to follow is … analyse the association between parents' education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent …

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 …

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 …

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

Despite its efficiency in tailoring education to the needs of students, a tracking system has the inherent problem of … misallocating students to tracks because of incomplete information at the time of the tracking decision. This paper investigates the … country with a very rigorous tracking system where the risk of misallocating students to tracks is, due to the early age at …

This paper studies the effects of a large welfare benefit reduction on the children in the affected families. The … welfare cut targeted adult refugees who received residency in Denmark, and it reduced their disposable income by 30 percent on … average over the first five years. We show that children exposed to the welfare cut during preschool and school-age obtained …