parents carried over to the entire family, making special groups of children worse off than others? To answer this question …Can moving to an earnings-related parental leave system influence children's wellbeing and are heterogeneous effects on … benefit amount compared to the pre-reform situation. 2-3-year-old children belonging to the reform's winners, however, improve …

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 …

relatively early age at which the German school system tracks students into different school types. This study contributes to the … intergenerational transmission of both, low and high education. Male students and students in rural areas appear to drive the effect. …

How did the introduction of the Bachelor-degree system affect students in Germany? Combining rich data on university … students with administrative data on universities' study programs, we exploit variation in the timing of Bachelor …-degree implementation across departments. To account for endogeneity in students' enrollment decisions, we apply an instrumental …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

, during the period of the analysis, the care and education of preschool children was more and more shifted from parents to … in East Germany, the disadvantage for later born children increased. The result for East Germany is surprising because … state run institutions, where the treatment of children should have been independent of birth order. -- birth order …