adverse impact of parental unemployment on children's educational transitions. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio …This paper studies the intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on students' transitions after completing … upper secondary education. Besides estimating the average treatment effect of parental unemployment on transition outcomes …

We are the first to examine how parental unemployment experienced during early-, mid- and late-childhood affects adult … after controlling for local unemployment, individual and family characteristics, parental job loss expectations, financial … life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and …

This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child … development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means …-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings …