Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize winner James Heckman shows that skills are built from the early childhood on and increase the returns of later educational inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is...

This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...

With this dissertation, I aim to find out how it is possible for statutory child protection workers to reach decisions when elements as different as a child's needs and the costs of a service are to be connected in the process. How is it possible, for instance, to count costs and sense the needs...

Die folgende These evaluiert drei indische Entwicklungspolitiken, dessen Ziel die Förderung von Frauen und historisch benachteiligten sozialen Gruppen ist. Diese drei Konzepte sind: der Vorbehalt für Frauen in öffentlichen Arbeitsprogrammen; politische Repräsentierung von Frauen in den...