Die Corona-Pandemie hat das Leben vieler Familien auf den Kopf gestellt. Kitas und Schulen sind geschlossen, viele Kinder sind nun tagsüber zu Hause - genau wie viele Eltern, die etwa vom Home-Office aus arbeiten. Was bedeutet diese Konstellation für Eltern und deren Zeiteinteilung mit Blick...

Durch flexible Arbeitszeiten und -Arbeitsplatzmodelle wird das Privatleben für viele Arbeitnehmer im Arbeitsleben präsenter. Multiple Rollen, wie etwa die Elternverantwortung und die Verantwortung im Job, miteinander zu integrieren kann hilfreich sein, um persönliche Ziele zu erreichen,...

Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh...

Das systematische Wissen über die Lebenslagen von geflüchteten Frauen, Kindern und Jugendlichen in Deutschland ist beschränkt. Das Forschungsprojekt "Geflüchtete Frauen und Familien" (GeFF) untersucht deswegen systematisch die besonderen Umstände der Flucht und der Integration von...

Grandparenting duties can affect the well-being of the elderly both positively and negatively. This paper disentangles the interactions between grandparenting, quality of life, and life satisfaction in China. Using a panel dataset of 3,205 respondents in three waves of the China Health and...

Public educators and philanthropists in the late 19th century United States promoted the establishment of kindergartens in cities as a remedy for the social problems associated with industrialization and immigration. Between 1880 and 1910, more than seven thousand kindergartens opened their...

Previous sociological research has overlooked the fact that a welfare state’s tax system does not solely redistribute from rich to poor (vertical) but also between family types (horizontal). Different types of families are treated differently due to (de-)familialization policies in the tax...

Die Corona-Pandemie hat das Leben vieler Familien auf den Kopf gestellt. Kitas und Schulen sind geschlossen, viele Kinder sind nun tagsüber zu Hause – genau wie viele Eltern, die etwa vom Home-Office aus arbeiten. Was bedeutet diese Konstellation für Eltern und deren Zeiteinteilung mit Blick...

We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an increase in the Chinese and Math test scores of elder siblings when their younger sibling starts school. We use the Chinese Law of Compulsory Education as an exogenous variation in the...

We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of household they live in: some agents live alone while others live with their spouses as a family. Our exercise is motivated by the fact that married individuals can rely on spousal...

We estimate a dynamic model of schooling on two cohorts of the NLSY and find that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the early 2000's. After conditioning on a cognitive...

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle income...

Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK longitudinal child development survey to study the relationship between verbal and physical abuse experienced by mothers and children's development up to the age of seven....

Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK longitudinal child development survey to study the relationship between verbal and physical abuse experienced by mothers and children's development up to the age of seven....

Durch flexible Arbeitszeiten und -Arbeitsplatzmodelle wird das Privatleben für viele Arbeitnehmer im Arbeitsleben präsenter. Multiple Rollen, wie etwa die Elternverantwortung und die Verantwortung im Job, miteinander zu integrieren kann hilfreich sein, um persönliche Ziele zu erreichen,...

Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh...

The family is a key socio-economic unit in society. The nature of its organization is shaped by cultural values and gender norms that change slowly over time. This implies that history matters in the sense that social institutions (e.g. the family, values, norms) tend to reproduce themselves...

Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal effects is notoriously difficult. Using admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college options, we present evidence from the United States,...

The incidence of adiposity in the early years of life has outgrown the prevalence rate in older children and adolescents globally; however, the relationships between unemployment and weight are predominantly studied in adults. This study examines the relationship between changing economic...

Dieser Beitrag stellt Ergebnisse einer Pilotstudie vor, die ein Monitoring-Instrument des Wohlbefindens von Kindern und Jugendlichen für die kommunale Dauerbeobachtung und als Evaluationsinstrument entwickelte. Integrierende Stadtentwicklung steht vor der Herausforderung, negative Folgen von...

We estimate the causal effects of parental incarceration on children's short- and long-run out-comes using administrative data from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous varia-tion in parental incarceration from the random assignment of criminal defendants to judges with different...

Family economic mobility has been a policy concern for decades, with interest heating up further since the 1990s. Using data that tracks individual families' incomes during overlapping 10-year periods from 1978 through 2014, this paper investigates the relationships of factors - family...