Eine wesentliche Erkenntnis der Ungleichheitsforschung bezieht sich darauf, dass bei der Analyse sozialer Ungleichheit nicht das einzelne Individuum, sondern auch der Haushalt und die Familie in den Blick genommen werden müssen. Familien sind mächtige Instanzen lebenslanger intergenerationaler...

Um dem demografischen Wandel in Deutschland nachhaltig entgegenzuwirken, könnten mehr junge Menschen dafür gewonnen werden, sich für das erste, zweite, dritte und weitere Kinder zu entscheiden. Allerdings ist trotz jahrelanger intensiver Forschung zu diesem Thema nach wie vor nicht...

Individual decisions on education are still an important topic in social sciences research. Our goal is an analysis of the impact of siblings on educational attainment in West Germany. Theories of educational decisions in a family context suggest several possible effects of siblings. During the...

This paper reviews the current state of knowledge on the link between education and wage inequality in Germany. The wage inequality is characterized by its stability, although a more detailed analysis reveals structural differences, especially between East and West Germany. Both the between and...

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in European countries (France, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, and Sweden) and traditional countries of...

Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity shared by family members, we construct a siblings sample and employ family fixed-effects and family correlated random-effects...

This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...

In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of poverty from Polish parents to their children through children´s educational attainment during the transition process of the 1990s. The relationship between family background and education is investigated using an ordered probit...