The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in … secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income. We use sibling fixed effects models and … information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to …

around the first childbirth. By analyzing the German Socioeconomic Panel Survey data, we find that high-income parents enjoy … these findings in terms of preferences among different groups of parents and the differential costs of children - the latter …We investigate the role of individual labor income as moderator of the parental subjective well-being trajectories …

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …

Taxation changes the expectations of prospective university students about their future level and uncertainty of after …-tax income. To estimate the impact of taxes on university enrollment, we develop and estimate a structural microeconometric model … variance of net income for German high-school graduates, using only information available to those graduates at the time of the …

I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004) prediction that individuals' reference income increases with ability …'s model to establish a link between immigrants' reference income and their return visits to their countries of origin. I …

Empirical analyses on the determinants of life satisfaction often include the impact of the number of children variable … analysis on the German Socioeconomic Panel we show that, when introducing household income without correction for the number of … members, the pecuniary effect prevails and the sign is negative while, when we equivalise income with the most commonly …

disposable income and a gain of leisure time - and the psychological (and cultural) notion of the lonely, sad empty nester. This … when parents become empty nesters. Importantly, this investigation also tracks what the last child leaving the household …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over … estimates. However, no clear-cut disadvantage in income of underweight men can be found. Stable coefficients result for the …

) showed that higher income individuals are less generous than poorer individuals only if they reside in a U.S. state with … major finding before readily accepting it as evidence, we analyzed the effect of the interaction between income and …