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The transition to tertiary education and parental background over time
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schieferdecker, Florian - 2008
and answer three questions: (a) does the relevance of parental background shift from short-term (contemporary income) to … estimators with and without selectivity corrections and numerous robustness tests. Parental income significantly affects … larger parental income effects in West than in East Germany. -- intergenerational transmission ; human capital investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746787
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Paternal unemployment during childhood : causal effects on youth worklessness and educational attainment
Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2014
Using long-running data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-2012) we investigate the impact of paternal unemployment on child labor market and education outcomes. We first describe correlation patterns and then use sibling fixed effects and the Gottschalk (1996) method to identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428745
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Heterogeneity in the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment : evidence from Switzerland on natives and second generation immigrants
Bauer, Philipp (contributor); Riphahn, Regina T. (contributor) - 2005
their parents' educational outcomes using data on the entire Swiss population. Based on economic theories of child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002537581
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Heterogeneity in the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment : evidence from Switzerland on natives and second generation immigrants
Bauer, Philipp (contributor); Riphahn, Regina T. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
their parents' educational outcomes using data on the entire Swiss population. Based on economic theories of child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002471718
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Kindergarten enrollment and the intergenerational transmission of education
Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902078
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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati - 2011
, educational opportunities were at times 'actively managed' and allocated to children of less educated parents. What happened to …In sozialistischen Ländern wurde oft die Auflösung sozialer Klassen angestrebt. Dazu wurden vor allem Kinder von … weniger gebildeten Eltern aktiv in ihrer Bildungskarriere gefördert. Was passierte mit diesem Muster nach dem Fall der Mauer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907148
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Intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in Germany : the last five decades
Heineck, Guido (contributor); Riphahn, Regina T. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003577717
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Intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in Germany : the last five decades
Heineck, Guido (contributor); Riphahn, Regina T. (contributor) - 2007
Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence yields that Germany features particularly low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003557338
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Institutional determinants of intergenerational education transmission : comparing alternative mechanisms for natives and immigrants
Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2012
intergenerational transmission of education. We test whether education transmission is higher when children enter kindergarten and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009682826
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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017
We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622213