Background: Many adolescents grow-up with inadequate access to opportunities facing challenges and risks. This study …

The early development of non-cognitive skills has longlasting benefits for children's sub- sequent educational … attainment and wages. Drawing on a rich, nationally representative longitudinal sample of young children in Ireland, we present …-parental care. This is equivalent to 44% of the difference in externalising behaviour between children with a mother with …

in East Germany, the disadvantage for later born children increased. The result for East Germany is surprising because …, during the period of the analysis, the care and education of preschool children was more and more shifted from parents to … in Germany. These effects are typically attributed to sibling rivalry for parental resources. Using data from the German …

that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …

The common finding of a zero or negative correlation between the presence of children and parental well-being continues … overall data and then for most different marital statuses. Children are expensive: controlling for financial difficulties … children are the same, with stepchildren commonly having a more negative correlation than children from the current …

-cognitive child development outcomes. We identify a strong positive association between mothers' life satisfaction and their children …. Our findings suggest that mothers' life satisfaction is beneficial for their children's development at all ages and that … data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) which captures maternal life satisfaction and numerous cognitive and non …

-cognitive child development outcomes. We identify a strong positive association between mothers’ life satisfaction and their children …. Our findings suggest that mothers’ life satisfaction is beneficial for their children’s development at all ages and that it … data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) which captures maternal life satisfaction and numerous cognitive and non …