This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health …. Instrumental variable estimates and difference-in-differences estimates reveal that increases in maternal schooling reduce children … children's education and improvements in their peer environment early in life are important for explaining the effects. Changes …

societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health …-specific effects, taking into account counterfactual care modes. Our results suggest null or negative effects on children's outcomes …: If children three years and older are in full-time daycare or school and, in addition, cared for by grandparents, they …

development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means …-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings …-related and only paid for up to 14 months. Higher-income households benefited more from the reform than low-income households. We …

Despite increasing access to university education, students from disadvantaged or non-academic family backgrounds are … from a German randomized controlled trial in which students in high schools were treated with information on the benefits … increases intended college enrollment for students from a non-academic family background, while it leads students from academic …

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …-born German children and non-existent for children from guestworker households. Income effects are also small relative to the … late-childhood income is a more important determinant of outcomes than early-childhood income, and income effects are not …

We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a … collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that Kyrgyzstan, like Eastern European middle income transition economies, generally …

respiratory diseases for a 10 percentage point rise in childcare coverage rates when their children are 1–2 years old. In contrast …

Although the proportion of students enrolled in college increased in the last decades, students from non-college family … information in a randomized controlled trial with more than 1,000 German high school students results in higher college enrollment … rates. One year prior to high school graduation, we treated students in randomly selected schools by giving an in …