This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment …

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment …

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment …

Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by … analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality … panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for Germany and the PSID for the US. In Germany, 67 per cent of sons born …

Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by … analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality … panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for Germany and the PSID for the US. In Germany, 67 per cent of sons born …

estimation sample are young. For these children overall, the estimate is 0.253. Our comparable estimate for the USA is 0 … varies greatly by child age when wealth is observed, from 0.1 before age 30, to 0.5 after age 40. Most children in our …

of father’s income on child income. We find a strong association between the incomes of fathers and children. The causal …

between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these skills …. A causal interpretation of the between-subject estimates is reinforced by novel IV estimation that isolates variation in … skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

existing results from other countries, the influence of the neighborhood is not negligible in Germany for some outcomes. …

Children early in the birth order get more parental care than later children. Does this significantly affect their life …