According to the selection hypothesis as well as the life course hypothesis, as children get older, the influences of social origins decrease progressively at educational branching points. Other approaches discuss the idea that some parental characteristics lose their impact during the...

The research on private financial transfers between generations lacks a longitudinal perspective. Gifts as intergenerational transfers inter vivos allow us to study the importance of life course events for the chances of receiving transfers. In Germany, gifts are highly private and leave more...