the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …

observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …

to trust other people are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about … the responses of parents and their children. Exploring heterogeneity in the strength of transmission, we find that gender … of the child does not matter, but that children with fewer siblings, and firstborn children, are more strongly influenced …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …

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 …

The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children … groups, and in particular to what degree do cash transfer and tax systems benefit children relative to older groups? Second …, what fractions of the needs of children are supported by elements of the tax and transfer systems directed explicitly to …

. This involves a method for embodying the ideal of children having priority on social resources into a particular set of …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …