beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our results indicate no consistent patterns for … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …

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 …

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 …

While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … short- and medium-run effects of early child care attendance in Germany using a fuzzy discontinuity in child care starting … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of …

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 …

consideration of a particular child's competency for school (Schulfähigkeit) have been suggested. Using a dataset capturing children … effect of age at school entry on educational attainment for West and East Germany. Empirical results from linear probability …

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

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 …

children's shares together with economies of scale, using the observation of adult-specific goods and an extended version of … the Rothbarth method. The application on data from Côte d'Ivoire shows that children command a reasonable fraction of … have more command over household resources. Baseline results on children's shares are robust to using alternative …