This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

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 …

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 …

little about their social integration and wellbeing. This study focuses on the educational attainment of German born children …

shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be …

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …

fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the … households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. …

the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …