Disconnectedness among youth can have several dimensions. From a socio-economic viewpoint, failure in school …, unemployment and the lack of an intimate relationship are among the most important ones. In our samples from SOEP youth … followed by increases in the number of disconnected youth. …

three-year-old children as well as the socio-emotional behaviorof five- to six-year-old children. We use data from the … mothers' personality or mothers' cognitive skills are controlled for. …

three-year-old children as well as the socio-emotional behaviorof five- to six-year-old children. We use data from the … mothers' personality or mothers' cognitive skills are controlled for. …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …

the literature. However, family structure provides a rather static view of the relationship of children's living … focuses on the impact of family instability on children. In light of human capital accumulation, we hypothesize that a stable … preschool children. By using sibling differences for our adolescents' sample, we find that multiple partnership transitions …

welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany. …-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants' economic self-sufficiency and family …

mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we … relatively small or zero. The pattern of results is more pronounced for lower education mothers. The lack of large decreases in … activities, but these are compensated for by lower education mothers during non-center hours. Our findings represent novel …

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