first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation …

out that tracking aggravates initial differences between students. We estimate the effects on the intergenerational … parents and decreased attainment among individuals with educated parents. The effect is driven entirely by changes in the …

parents to their children. Attempts to empirically measure the strength of this transmission relied so far on the cross …-sectional regression of the trust of children on the contemporaneous trust of their parents. We introduce a new identification strategy … which hinges on a panel of parents and their children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Our results show that: 1 …

, controlling for parental income, education and family composition, that parents who experience poor health have children with …The prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years …. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they …

strongly transmitted from parents to children than cognitive skills which are related to innate abilities. Our findings are not …Complementing prior research on income mobility and educational transmission, we provide evidence on the … individuals' cognitive skills are positively related to the abilities of their parents, even when educational attainment and …

developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation …

Taxation changes the expectations of prospective university students about their future level and uncertainty of after …-tax income. To estimate the impact of taxes on university enrollment, we develop and estimate a structural microeconometric model … variance of net income for German high-school graduates, using only information available to those graduates at the time of the …