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 …

This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market … characteristics has a negligible impact on the estimates. Furthermore, we find substantial evidence that the effect of immigration on …

diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different immigrant sub-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. I …

these effects are much more limited in magnitude. We also analyze children of migrants and show that parents' time in the …The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the … results show that the children who arrived at a higher age had substantially lower shares of natives among their neighbors …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the …, leading to a de-stigmatization of sex. As contraception has become more effective there is less need for parents, churches and …

their parents. The neighbourhood choice pattern of those who leave the parental home for independent and shared living … arrangements does not differ markedly from that of their parents, while nest-leavers for union formation are more likely to move to …

parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the … effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …

score bias among children of Hispanic immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits the test language randomization … costs associated with taking a test in one´s non-dominant language. We find that U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants … assimilation occurs at a rapid pace for foreign born children as well; children who arrive in the U.S. at an early age or who have …