Parental investments are crucial for the children’s skill development, especially in the early years of the life-cycle. In this paper, we examine how parental health, which may cause variation in investments to…
Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings
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2013
Germany has a lower fertility rate than many other Western countries. The difference in fertility rates is likely to be driven by both socio-economic and institutional factors (e.g., access to childcare) as well…
The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for reducing income inequality in Germany and contributes to the discussion of sustainability in…
This paper studies the effect of information about a charity’s size on individuals’ donations to that charity. We conducted a framed field experiment with a non-student sample, in which subjects had the…