parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents' knowledge of their children's endowments and about the technology used to …, these results suggest that a higher full family income increases the educational attainment of children, and given full …

Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany's children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …