between East and West Germany, both before and after reunification, to investigate a causal relationship. Instrumental …

neighbourhood careers of children once they have left the parental home. We use a quasi-experimental family design exploiting … different than synthetic pairs but the difference gets smaller with time, indicating a quicker attenuation of the family effect …

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation … step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family … suggest that the strong intergenerational correlation of welfare benefit receipt is determined by family background rather …

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created … a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still … differs from West Germany not only by a higher female contribution to household income, but also because East German women can …

We study the effect of educational attainment on family formation using regression discontinuity designs generated by … set of results using survey data. These suggest that the positive association between men's education and family formation …

This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation …, more than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by shared family background. Comparing these findings with …

This research documents the effects of different forms of family disruptions - measured by separation, divorce and … significant correlations between family disruptions prior to the age of 16 and personality development in early childhood …. Parental divorce has the largest negative effect on a child's personality development. Family disruptions have smaller effects …

We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree … to which family size and birth order affect a child's subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off … between child quantity and 'quality'. Family size might adversely affect the production of child quality within a family. A …