In this paper, I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to investigate whether and how a German youth' s choice of secondary school (Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium) varies with the timing and duration of poverty experienced in childhood. To investigate what role the timing of...

Bildung ist in unserer Gesellschaft der Armutsindikator schlechthin, eine geringe Bildung das Armutsrisiko Nummer eins. Dies ist die zentrale Erkenntnis der vorliegenden Studie, welche die Ergebnisse der lebenslauforientierten Armutsforschung für die Schweiz und andere europäische Länder...

Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), which combines community investments with reform minded charter schools, is one of the most ambitious social experiments to alleviate poverty of our time. We provide the first empirical test of the causal impact of HCZ on educational outcomes, with an eye toward...