Zahlreiche Studien über die Schulleistungen von deutschen Schülern haben aufgezeigt, dass der schulische Erfolg von Kindern positiv vom Sozialstatus ihrer Eltern abhängt. Diese Studien offenbaren überdies, dass Kinder einkommensschwacher und/oder bildungsferner Familien besonders von...

Study design and methods / Paul P. Biemer, Kathryn Dowd, and Mary Bruce Webb -- Quality of the early caregiving environment and preschool well-being : an examination of children entering the child welfare system during infancy / Brenda Jones Harden ... [et al.] -- Risk and resilience among...

Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children...

Foster care placement is strongly associated with crime--for example, close to one fifth of the prison population in the United States is comprised of former foster children--yet there is little evidence on whether this relationship is causal. Leveraging the quasi-random assignment of child...

We study the impacts of a policy designed to reward mothers who stay at home rather than join the labor force when their children are under age three. We use regional and over time variation to show that the Finnish Home Care Allowance (HCA) decreases maternal employment in both the short and...