children through purposeful investments. Weexploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …

We explore the link between parental selection and criminality of children in a newcontext. After the collapse of the … uncertainty. We exploit this natural experiment in a differences in differences setup to first estimate that the children from … play important roles in the parental selection-crime of children relationship. Finally, results for siblings support a …

school-going children. When children attend school, the potential time working mothers miss out with their children, is … smaller than when children do not yet attend school. At the same time, working might benefit children through, for example … children enter school. We find no negative relation between maternal working hours and child outcomes as is often found for pre …

Th is evaluation study has been conducted within the framework of the Education andLabour Market Project (POA). Th e … project is funded by the Ministry of Education,Culture and Science (OCW), the Institute for Employee Benefi t Schemes (UWV … Education andLabour Market Project for their comments on an earlier version. …