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...

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...

This article discusses legal, economic and political aspects of the German compulsory military service. We argue that Germany should introduce a professional army because it is more efficient and less prone to cause problems with vertical and horizontal tax equity. In addition most of the...