The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in … secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income. We use sibling fixed effects models and … information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to …

of the influence of family on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as confirmed by decomposition analyses and … in line with previous findings on educational and income mobility. …

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to … receive recommendations for or to enroll at any secondary school type as native children. Comparable natives, in terms of … family background, thus face similar difficulties as migrant children. Our results point at more general inequalities in …

that these education policies are more relevant for children of less-educated unemployed parents. …-equalizing education policies that provide higher financial support to students and reduce the role of private expenditure. We also find …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health … shocks in the previous three years have significant negative effects on children's behavioral outcomes. The most serious of …

We study the role of parental wealth for children's educational and occupational outcomes across three types of welfare … of substantial associations between parental wealth and children's educational success and social mobility in three …

effects prevail even after controlling for labour market and income-related factors. The findings are pronounced in Germany …

first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation …