This research documents the effects of different forms of family disruptions - measured by separation, divorce and death - on personality development of British children included in the 1970 British Cohort Study. There are statistically significant correlations between family disruptions prior...

This research documents the effects of different forms of family disruptions – measured by separation, divorce and death – on personality development of British children included in the 1970 British Cohort Study. There are statistically significant correlations between family disruptions...

Diese Arbeit untersucht die Rolle der Familie als materielles Unterstützungssystem anhand von Erbschaften und Schenkungen, die Eltern und Großeltern an ihre Kinder bzw. Enkel vergeben. Nach der Diskussion ökonomischer und soziologischer Literatur zum intergenerationalen Transfergeschehen wird...

Longer term exposure to high poverty neighbourhoods can affect individual socio-economic outcomes later in life. Previous research has shown strong path dependence in individual neighbourhood histories. A growing literature shows that the neighbourhood histories of people is linked to the...