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 …

investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are … better recommendations to taller students. This holds even when controlling for academic achievement and parental background … respect to education policy, our findings suggest that early school tracking might increase disadvantages for students with …

Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of …

in higher education. We investigate students' knowledge and their receptiveness to information campaigns about the costs … financial barriers to university participation, especially for students from disadvantaged backgrounds …

acquired skills from a randomized controlled trial providing computers to entering college students. We matched confidential …

can get an estimate of the taxable income elasticity from the bunching pattern around a kink point. The bunching estimator … cannot identify the taxable income elasticity when the functional form of the distribution of preference heterogeneity is … unknown. We find that an observed distribution of taxable income around a kink point in a budget set can be consistent with …

Using detailed tax data from the Swiss canton of Bern, I examine how changes in wealth are related to income risk. I … find that only among elderly individuals high kurtosis of income risk may be positively correlated with wealth accumulation …. Additionally, I document that a substantial share of taxpayers have negative net wealth. While wealth and income are positively …

for income comparisons eliminates the gap between equivalence scale parameters for adults and children found in other …We estimate household equivalence scales using income satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We extend … previous studies applying this approach by taking reference income into account. This allows separating needs-based from …

with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly …