We use 20th-century data to examine how community economic conditions at the time of birth influenced various measures of socioeconomic success as adults. Our analysis focuses on the worst downturn ever experienced in the United States: the Great Depression. We merge individual information...

Research has shown that children placed in foster care fall below population norms on many indicators of well-being. Yet few studies have been designed to distill the effects of foster care from conditions that precede foster care. Based on the available evidence, it is also uncertain whether...

The aim of this article is to investigate the early childbearing in Romania in a life course perspective, studying to what extent the context and childhood experiences influence the timing of the childbearing behavior. We also analyze whether having a birth before age 20 is associated with...

This paper explores the question: is working as a child harmful to an individual in terms of adult outcomes in earnings? Though an extremely important question, little is known about the effect of child labor on adult outcomes. Estimations of an instrumental variables earnings model on data from...

Die Steuerplanung internationaler Unternehmen, die durch geschickte Kombination von Regelungen ihre Steuerbelastungen gegen null senken, und die Steuerpolitik einiger Länder stehen in der öffentlichen Kritik. Johanna Hey, Universität zu Köln, verweist darauf, dass es bei der Bekämpfung sog....