We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can …

children in lone parent households and households with a non-working head. Events such as family formation and dissolution, and …

with spatial correlation indicate that the relevance of common business cycle factors is rather stable over the past two … ; spatial correlation ; spatial panel model …

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade …) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves student …-performing students do not benefit, high-performing students benefit the most. The findings suggest that increases in instruction hours …