We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...

Die Sozialpolitik der EU wird von Schlagworten wie " soziale Gerechtigkeit", "soziale Kohäsion" und "europäisches Sozialmodell" beherrscht. Über den Inhalt dieses Sozialmodells herrscht jedoch keine Einigkeit. Defizitär ist auch das empirische Wissenüber die soziale Lage in den alten und...

The 2008 financial market crisis, followed by the Great Recession and sovereign debt crises in several EU countries have triggered drastic reforms of old-age security systems. They were supposed to ensure the financial viability of public pension schemes in the short and long run and/or to...