Life satisfaction is increasingly recognised as a desirable individual outcome. Policy attention with respect to child … well-being has focused on improving the financial position of families with children. Using Understanding Society I show … that child life satisfaction is not associated with household income (poverty), or with a set of new material deprivation …

The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in …

The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in …

Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …

on sibling differences and (ii) reverse causality by focusing on parents' employment when children are aged 0-3. We use …This paper analyzes whether there exists a causal relationship between parental employment and children's educational … attainment. We address potential endogeneity problems due to (i) selection of parents in the labor market by estimating a model …

We investigate the time investment in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities by parents with different …

estimates rule out large effects for children whose parents have a strong preference for sending them to early child care. …While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … short- and medium-run effects of early child care attendance in Germany using a fuzzy discontinuity in child care starting …

rule out large effects for children whose parents have a strong preference for sending them to early child care. …While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … short- and medium-run effects of early child care attendance in Germany using a fuzzy discontinuity in child care starting …

Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in … children's non-cognitive outcomes and parental well-being. To capture heterogeneous effects on different dimensions of children …'s socio-emotional behavior and parental satisfaction, we consider a broad range of outcomes. Based on a representative German …