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 …

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 …

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

Taxation changes the expectations of prospective university students about their future level and uncertainty of after …-tax income. To estimate the impact of taxes on university enrollment, we develop and estimate a structural microeconometric model … variance of net income for German high-school graduates, using only information available to those graduates at the time of the …

analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study in which we observe children when they make their …