We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …

mating plays an important role. On average about 40-50% of the covariance between parents' and own permanent family income … capital, which are larger in Germany than Britain. -- intergenerational links ; marriage market ; assortative mating …

Some sociologists argue that non-intact family structures during childhood have a negative effect on adult children … engagement. Both exercises reveal a significant negative relationship between growing up in a non-intact family and children … their children's political attitudes and orientations. In this paper, we evaluate this hypothesis on the basis of …

-intact family and children's civic, social and political engagement as adults. We argue that this finding is consistent with … traditional family structures in many countries throughout the developed world. According to Putnam in Bowling alone (2000 …), however, none of the major declines in civic engagement can be accounted for by the decline in traditional family structures …

in Germany. -- Smoking ; lone parent ; childhood family structure ; divorce ; unobserved heterogeneity …

An emerging question in demographic economics is whether there is a link between family size and the geographic … distance between adult children and elderly parents. Given current population trends, understanding how different … configurations of family size and sibship influence patterns of child-parent proximity is vitally important, as it impacts on issues …

Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time … transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult … children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We …

Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time … transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult … children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We …