This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health …. Instrumental variable estimates and difference-in-differences estimates reveal that increases in maternal schooling reduce children … children's education and improvements in their peer environment early in life are important for explaining the effects. Changes …

vocational training nor the occupational position of the parents in childhood, which both correlate with household income, can … Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life … expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as …

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 …-related and only paid for up to 14 months. Higher-income households benefited more from the reform than low-income households. We …

Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade …) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves student …-performing students do not benefit, high-performing students benefit the most. The findings suggest that increases in instruction hours …

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger …

Despite increasing access to university education, students from disadvantaged or non-academic family backgrounds are … from a German randomized controlled trial in which students in high schools were treated with information on the benefits … increases intended college enrollment for students from a non-academic family background, while it leads students from academic …

Although the proportion of students enrolled in college increased in the last decades, students from non-college family … information in a randomized controlled trial with more than 1,000 German high school students results in higher college enrollment … rates. One year prior to high school graduation, we treated students in randomly selected schools by giving an in …