delaying school entry for children with developmental impairments. Using data on the compulsory school entrance screening in … factors for a child's probability to receive a school recommendation. Younger children and children with impairments in …

well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS), an epidemiological …

adolescence. We analyse the predictive power of these abilities, initial risk conditions and home resources for children …'s achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS), an epidemiological cohort study, which follows … preschool age contribute to the prediction of children's achievement at school age. …

mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the … impacts can be related to different family policy regulations. …

This contribution is concerned with the decision of young mothers who were employed during the year before childbirth … of family policy on the duration of the employment break is examined. One finding is that the expansion of the maximum …

investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the …

investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three … years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …, our results further support the advice to parents of young children not to smoke. …