intergenerational correlations are only able to capture parts of the influence of the family on children s cognitive and non …-cognitive skills. This result is in line with findings in the literature on educational and income mobility. …

inequalities persist across generations. In other words, how do parents transmit social status to children? To what extent is such …This thesis is concerned with a possible answer to the question of why we should care about inequality: children. A … child can no less choose its parents than it can choose its gender or ethnicity. One cannot fault a child for their choice …

soziales Kapital auch für alle anderen Familienmitglieder dar; Bildung, Einkommen und Status der Eltern sind wesentliche … Ressourcen für die Kinder. Diejenigen, die bereits in ihrer Kindheit und Jugend bessere individuelle Startpositionen hatten, sind … auch im Erwachsenenalter im Vorteil. Diejenigen, die Kinder haben, verfügen in höherem Alter über Unterstützungsressourcen …

outcomes. The impact works mainly through the intensive margin and less through the probability of having children. It is … strongest in the first generation and becomes weaker for generation 1.5 (migrants arriving as children) and the second …

In einer reichen Gesellschaft wie der Bundesrepublik Deutschland sind viele Kinder arm, was umso mehr erstaunen muss …