Zahlreiche Studien über die Schulleistungen von deutschen Schülern haben aufgezeigt, dass der schulische Erfolg von Kindern positiv vom Sozialstatus ihrer Eltern abhängt. Diese Studien offenbaren überdies, dass Kinder einkommensschwacher und/oder bildungsferner Familien besonders von...

"Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is thought to be critical to the development of "quality" children who will become productive adults. This paper has three goals related to the examination of parental time...

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a...

This paper examines the impact of parental investments on the development of cognitive, mental and emotional skills during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use...