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A library in the palm of your hand? : a randomized reading intervention with low-income children

Anger, Silke; Christoph, Bernhard; Gałkiewicz, Agata Danuta - 2024

Reading skills are crucial for academic success and long-term educational attainment. However, children from … intervention conducted in Germany targeting 11-12-year-olds from low-income households. The intervention involved distributing e …-book readers, which provided free access to a large digital library of age-appropriate books, directly to the children's homes. Our …

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Intergenerational earnings mobility and preferences for redistribution

Siedler, Thomas; Sonnenberg, Bettina - 2012

This paper analyzes the extent to which intergenerational upward and downward mobility in earnings are related to individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study - whether the taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate...

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Intergenerational earnings mobility and preferences for redistribution

Siedler, Thomas; Sonnenberg, Bettina - 2012

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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

Siedler, Thomas - 2012

This paper analyzes the extent to which intergenerational upward and downward mobility in earnings are related to individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study — whether the taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate...

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Intergenerational economic mobility and assortative mating

Ermisch, John (contributor); Francesconi, Marco (contributor) - 2005

mating plays an important role. On average about 40-50% of the covariance between parents' and own permanent family income …

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The intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries

Jenkins, Stephen (contributor); Siedler, Thomas (contributor) - 2007

(or "income") during childhood and laterlife outcomes; we do not explicitly consider the impact of other family background … security benefits. However we conclude that, broadly speaking, the analytical framework that has been used for high-income …

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Using household panel data to understand the intergenerational transmission of poverty

Jenkins, Stephen (contributor); Siedler, Thomas (contributor) - 2007

This paper discusses how household panel surveys can be informative about the intergenerational transmission of poverty. We consider issues both of data and of the statistical methods that may be applied to those data. Although the data focus is on panel surveys from developed countries, we also...

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Intergenerational correlations of extreme right-wing party preferences and attitudes toward immigration

Avdeenko, Alexandra; Siedler, Thomas - 2015

This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right … the strongest and most important predictor for young people's right-wing extremism are parents' right-wing extremist …

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Intergenerational correlations of extreme right-wing party preferences and attitudes toward immigration

Avdeenko, Alexandra; Siedler, Thomas - 2016

This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children’s far right … the strongest and most important predictor for young people’s right-wing extremism are parents’ right-wing extremist …

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Intergenerational mobility and marital sorting

Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco; Siedler, Thomas - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 116 (2006), pp. 659-679

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