This research investigates how family events in adult children's lives influence the timing of their parents' financial transfers. We draw on retrospective data collected by the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and use event history models to study the effects of marriage, divorce, and...

Objective: This study examines how changes in cohabitation or marital status affect Body Mass Index (BMI) over time in a large representative sample. Methods: Participants were 20,950 individuals (50% female; 19 to 100 years), representative of the German population, who provided 81,926...

Der empirischen Forschung zu intergenerationalen Finanztransfers fehlt eine Längsschnittbetrachtung. Schenkungen eignen sich besonders gut, um innerfamiliale Solidarität und Transfers aus einer lebensverlaufsbezogenen Perspektive zu untersuchen, da sie - im Gegensatz zu Erbschaften - zeitlich...