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 …

treatment (at age 8) increases children enrolment by about 9 percent. This positive effect disappears by age 15, and is more … pronounced in urban areas. In sharp contrast, children receiving treatment later (age 12–15) are more likely to drop out by age …

well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, an epidemiological cohort …

large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children …. I combine a unique dataset on city-level destruction in Germany caused by Allied Air Forces bombing during WWII with … school-age during WWII. First, these children had 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood, with those in the …

This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational … attainment and political outcomes of German children. We combine a unique city-level dataset on the fraction of Jewish population … residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with individual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Our …

children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and … and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial …

achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from birth to adolescence. Results indicate …

-curricular activities, on children's skill development. Our results indicate positive effects: both cognitive skills, measured by school …

government physicians - can account for developmental gaps between the children of college educated parents and those of less … also focus on improving the health of disadvantaged children. -- Health inequality ; human capital formation ; childhood …