inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of … their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in Germany an important decision about which educational track to follow is … analyse the association between parents' education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent …

of children from poorer families. -- birth weight ; twins ; education ; IQ ; earnings …

labor market outcomes of children. Evaluation of three policy reforms as opposed to a single reform enables us to analyze … the reforms by comparing outcomes of children born shortly before and shortly after a change in maternity leave … support for the hypothesis that an expansion in maternity leave legislation improves children's outcomes. Given the precision …

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid … 30. The effect is especially large for children of those mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of … unpaid leave. -- maternity leave ; children’s outcomes …