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 …

administrative register data on 25000 genotyped Norwegian children and their parents. We assess and disentangle the relative … importance of genetics and social background for children's standardized academic test scores. Norway offers a particularly … opportunity structures for children. The results point to genetics only confounding the parent status-offspring achievement …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …

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 …

educational inequalities among children have increased or remained the same since the school closures of spring 2020 due to the … COVID-19 pandemic. Our perspective is longitudinal: We compare the amount of time children in secondary schools spent on … period of school closures. For the period thereafter, however, we assume that parents with a low level of education had more …