The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in … secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income. We use sibling fixed effects models and … information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to …

around the first childbirth. By analyzing the German Socioeconomic Panel Survey data, we find that high-income parents enjoy … these findings in terms of preferences among different groups of parents and the differential costs of children - the latter …We investigate the role of individual labor income as moderator of the parental subjective well-being trajectories …

educational inequalities among children have increased or remained the same since the school closures of spring 2020 due to the … COVID-19 pandemic. Our perspective is longitudinal: We compare the amount of time children in secondary schools spent on … period of school closures. For the period thereafter, however, we assume that parents with a low level of education had more …

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to … receive recommendations for or to enroll at any secondary school type as native children. Comparable natives, in terms of … family background, thus face similar difficulties as migrant children. Our results point at more general inequalities in …

Taxation changes the expectations of prospective university students about their future level and uncertainty of after …-tax income. To estimate the impact of taxes on university enrollment, we develop and estimate a structural microeconometric model … variance of net income for German high-school graduates, using only information available to those graduates at the time of the …

Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … relatively younger children to special needs services. The effect is persistent throughout compulsory schooling, resulting in …

I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004) prediction that individuals' reference income increases with ability …'s model to establish a link between immigrants' reference income and their return visits to their countries of origin. I …

Empirical analyses on the determinants of life satisfaction often include the impact of the number of children variable … analysis on the German Socioeconomic Panel we show that, when introducing household income without correction for the number of … members, the pecuniary effect prevails and the sign is negative while, when we equivalise income with the most commonly …