What are the effects of school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic on children's education? Online education is an … imperfect substitute for in-person learning, particularly for children from low-income families. Peer effects also change …: schools allow children from different socio-economic backgrounds to mix together, and this effect is lost when schools are …

As children reach adolescence, peer interactions become increasingly central to their development, whereas the direct … influence of parents wanes. Nevertheless, parents may continue to exert leverage by shaping their children's peer groups. We … study interactions of parenting style and peer effects in a model where children's skill accumulation depends on both …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a …

This paper quantifies the life-cycle incidence of key family policy measures in Germany. The analysis is based on a … Germany benefit considerably from family- and marriage-related transfers, yet also reveal substantial variation behind the …

- significant differences in the educational and labor market outcomes across children of varying birth orders. Taking advantage of … a rich set of information on in utero and early childhood conditions in the Children of the NLSY79, we find that, within …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

, die Anzahl Kinder im Haushalt, das Haushaltseinkommen sowie der Besuch einer Bildungseinrichtung keinen Zusammenhang mit …