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...

Das Zusammenwachsen Europas bietet neue Möglichkeiten für die Bildungspolitik. Dennoch existieren bislang kaum Untersuchungen zur Frage, wie eine Europäische Strategie zur Optimierung der Investitionen in die Humankapitalbildung aussehen könnte. In einem aktuellen ZEW-Diskussionspapier...

This paper examines the impact of parental investments on various skills during childhood using the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS). Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use reliable measures of the child's cognitive, mental and emotional skills as well as accurate...

Die Auswirkungen von Innovationen und neuen Technologien auf Arbeitsplätze, Arbeitsbedingungen und Qualifizierung müssen frühzeitig sondiert und bewertet werden. Einführungsprozesse sind so zu gestalten, dass keine oder möglichst wenige negative Auswirkungen für die Beschäftigten...

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...

Das Zusammenwachsen Europas bietet neue Möglichkeiten für die Bildungspolitik. Dennoch existieren bislang kaum Untersuchungen zur Frage, wie eine Europäische Strategie zur Optimierung der Investitionen in die Humankapitalbildung aussehen könnte. In einem aktuellen ZEW-Diskussionspapier...

This paper quantifies the life-cycle incidence of key family policy measures in Germany. The analysis is based on a novel dynamic microsimulation model that combines simulated family life-cycles for a base population from the 2009 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with a...

We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a number of key family policy measures based on data for Germany. Parental leave benefits, child benefits and subsidized childcare are found to have substantial fertility...