Identifying the effect of parental incomes on child outcomes is difficult due to the correlation of unobserved ability, education levels and income. Previous research has relied on the use of instrumental variables to identify the effect of a change in household income on the young adult...

Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous selfemploymentexperience in an immigrant´s country of origin is an important determinant oftheir self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being self-employed byabout 7 percent...

This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the durationof training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that theamount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). Thisfeature allows us to...