We model centralized school matching as a second stage of a simple Tiebout-model and show that the two most discussed … disadvantaged if the school priorities are based on ex ante known (social) differences of the applicants. …

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …

The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the …

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children …

Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision- making. For example, in … programs or enable them access to higher education. Thus, a key question is how to get immigrant parents to provide their … birthright citizenship in Germany caused immigrant parents to adapt their educational choices for their offspring. We employ a …

an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three … years later at the end of middle school, we find that patience significantly predicts choosing an academic track. This … relationship remains robust after controlling for a rich set of covariates, such as family background, school-class fixed effects …

their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet …

rather than by differences in how the parents respond to the shocks. …