large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children …. I combine a unique dataset on city-level destruction in Germany caused by Allied Air Forces bombing during WWII with … school-age during WWII. First, these children had 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood, with those in the …

späteren Schultyp in Verbindung steht. Die empirische Analyse basiert auf einem für Deutschland repräsentativen Paneldatensatz … Geburtsjahrgängen und die Weiterverfolgung der schulischen Bildungskarrieren für den Großteil der untersuchten Kinder. Die empirischen …

in East Germany, the disadvantage for later born children increased. The result for East Germany is surprising because … in Germany. These effects are typically attributed to sibling rivalry for parental resources. Using data from the German …. The effects are of substantial magnitude, both in West and East Germany. To our knowledge, this is the first study that …

This paper analyzes whether there exists a causal relationship between parental employment and children's educational … on sibling differences and (ii) reverse causality by focusing on parents' employment when children are aged 0-3. We use … data from the German Socioeconomic Panel. Overall, we find little support that parental employment affects children …

naturalized children of guest workers, ethnic Germans, EU and third country immigrants. In line with previous research, I find … less adversely affected by low parental education than are the children of native Germans. …

children. Using data for Germany, we find that an economic downturn, coupled with increased unemployment, affects children …'s education attainment negatively. In terms of monetary units, the average effect of the 1993 German recessionon children … conclusion is that children who live in regions that experience poor economic performance over longer periods are, on average …

investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the …

their children. In this paper,we shed light on the potential channels through which human capital is transmitted from … mothers to their children in early childhood. The main channels through which maternal human capital benefits the child …