parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … education and wages for the children born under these policies. The mobility effect, chiefly an increase in intergenerational … mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of …

-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common …

-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common …

Heterogenität beobachtet werden. Deutschland, Spanien und Italien weisen deutlich niedrigere Geburtenraten auf als Frankreich, das …, there is substantial heterogeneity both in the current level of birth rates and in the past development. Germany, Spain, and …

Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct ?institutional regimes?, we estimate the short …

: ‘internalising’ and ‘externalising’, related to the ability of children to focus their concentration and to engage in interpersonal … for children born to mothers with higher socio-economic status (education and employment), and to mothers who smoked … other hand, we find a decline in the skills gradient for children without a father figure in the household. Lastly, we …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …