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Parental marital disruption, family type, and transfers to disabled elderly parents
Pezzin, Liliana E. (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper examines the family variables that affect intergenerational living arrangements and adult children's time and cash transfers to their unpartnered disabled elderly parents. The family variables we examine include parental marital status, parental marital history, whether the index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777879
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The preadult origins of post-materialism : a longitudinal sibling study
Kroh, Martin (contributor) - 2008
Using a research design that traces siblings' preferences for postmaterialistic values in Germany over two decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726120
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Children and parents time use : empirical evidence on investment in human capital in France, Italy and Germany
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2008
countries (France, Italy and Germany) on the link between time allocation by parents and time allocation by youngsters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771962
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
We investigate whether two crucial determinants of economic decision making willingness to take risks and willingness to trust other people are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about these attitudes directly, and are good measures in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003481849
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Empirical studies on early childhood education in Germany
Coneus, Katja - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008857861
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Lifelong learning inequality? : the relevance of family background for on-the-job training
Antoni, Manfred - 2011
Hintergrunds auf die Beteiligung an nicht-formaler Weiterbildung in Deutschland. Die Resultate auf Basis von Zähldatenmodellen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907127
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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati - 2011
the fall of the iron curtain in East Germany and compare the relevance of parental educational background for secondary … schooling outcomes in East and West Germany. Based on data from the German Mikrozensus we find that educational mobility is … lower in East than in West Germany and that it has been falling in East Germany after unification. While the educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907148
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Heterogeneity in the intergenerational transmission of alcohol consumption : a quantile regression approach
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Tauchmann, Harald - 2010
This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children’s later consumption of alcohol – which is frequently found to be of positive sign – exhibits a certain pattern of heterogeneity. In particular, if this effect is more prominent in the upper tail than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839870
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How important is the family? : evidence from sibling correlations in permanent earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011
earnings in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows …: the importance of family and community background in Germany is higher than in Denmark and comparable to that in the US … to family and community factors shared by brothers while the corresponding estimates are 43 percent in Germany and 45 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008842237
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Intergenerational mobility and schooling decisions in Germany and Italy : the impact of secondary school tracks
Checchi, Daniele (contributor); Flabbi, Luca (contributor) - 2007
, Italy and Germany, to see how the common feature of separate tracks at Secondary School level may produce different impacts … parental education. We then move to country-specific data sets (ISTAT 2001 for Italy and GSOEP 2001 and 2002 for Germany) to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609795