vocational training nor the occupational position of the parents in childhood, which both correlate with household income, can … Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life … expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as …

The strong link between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and children's success in school is well established … and German between the ages of 9 and 10. We found that parents with a low SES are more likely to be inconsistent in their … parenting and to use psychological control with their children more often, these two factors being linked to child behavioural …

We investigate the time investment in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities by parents with different …

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 …

Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in … children's non-cognitive outcomes and parental well-being. To capture heterogeneous effects on different dimensions of children … panel data set, we analyze age-specific effects for families with children below the age of 11. Our preliminary results …

between children of rich and poor parents remain as high in Nordic countries as elsewhere in Europe. One explanation for this … investments in children contribute to a levelled playing field and promote social mobility. However, gaps in learning outcomes … paradox is that the equalizing impacts of public investments are undone by parental investments in children of rich and poor …

naturalized children of guest workers, ethnic Germans, EU and third country immigrants. In line with previous research, I find … less adversely affected by low parental education than are the children of native Germans. …