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Chancengleichheit und lebenslanges Lernen: Zur Zukunft der Bildung in Deutschland
Ritzen, Jo; Hinte, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Das deutsche Bildungssystem steht ungeachtet diverser Reformanstrengungen in der jüngeren Vergangenheit weiter vor großen Herausforderungen: Im internationalen Vergleich fehlt es an sozialer Chancengleichheit im Verlauf der Bildungskarrieren, und für eine "Bildungsnation" nehmen sich die...
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The Economics of Child Well-Being
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This chapter presents an integrated economic approach that organizes and interprets the evidence on child development. It also discusses the indicators of child well-being that are used in international comparisons. Recent evidence on child development is summarized, and policies to promote...
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Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Ludwig, Jens; Miller, Douglas L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
grantwriting assistance. We find evidence of a large drop at the OEO cutoff in mortality rates for children from causes that could …
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Das Wachstum der Zukunft ist weiblich
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Um den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt demografiefest zu machen, bedarf es einer stärkeren Aktivierung des Potenzials weiblicher Erwerbspersonen bei gleichzeitiger Steigerung der Geburtenrate. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt Handlungsoptionen zur Lösung dieser beiden zentralen Zukunftsaufgaben auf und...
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Schulergänzende Betreuung für Kinder: Status Quo und Beschäftigungswirkung
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Die vorliegende Studie zeigt, dass eine ausgebaute Mittags- und Nachmittagsbetreuung mit höherer Erwerbstätigkeit und längeren Arbeitszeiten der Mütter einhergeht. Die ganztägige Betreuung von Schulkindern ist damit ein wichtiger Baustein für die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf....
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The Impact of Non-Parental Child Care on Child Development: Evidence from the Summer Participation "Dip"
Herbst, Chris M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive …-B administrators strictly controlled the mechanism by which children were assigned to assessment dates. The OLS results show that … children utilizing non-parental arrangements score higher on tests of mental ability, a finding that holds after accounting for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990922
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If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands: How Do Mothers and Fathers Really Feel about Child Caregiving?
Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender differences in how men and women who have done some child...
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Equalization of Opportunity: Definitions, Implementable Conditions and Application to Early-Childhood Policy Evaluation
Andreoli, Francesco; Havnes, Tarjei; Lefranc, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
equalizing opportunity among children, using quantile treatment effects estimates of a major child care reform in Norway. …
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Does Early Child Care Help or Hurt Children's Development?
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care … entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000 children in one West German state, we use a marginal treatment effects … framework to show how causal effects vary with observed characteristics of children, parents, and care centers and with …
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Measuring the Relative Productivity of Multitasking to Sole-tasking in Household Production: New Experimental Evidence
Foster, Gigi; Kalenkoski, Charlene M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We present a household production model that incorporates multitasking and results from a customized experiment designed to measure the individual-specific productivity parameters from this model. We observe these productivity parameters under alternative incentive scenarios, designed to mimic...
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