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Institutional determinants of intergenerational education transmission: Comparing alternative mechanisms for natives and immigrants

Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2012

intergenerational transmission of education. We test whether education transmission is higher when children enter kindergarten and … associated with early kindergarten attendance, particularly for immigrants. Time of tracking loses statistical significance when … kindergarten and school entry regimes are held constant. Our results are robust to various alternative specifications. …

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Discrimination on the Child Care Market : A Nationwide Field Experiment

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2023

We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from fictitious parents to 18, 000 early child care centers across Germany, asking if there is a slot available and how to apply. Randomly varying names to signal migration background, we...

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Children's Social Care and Early Intervention Policy in England

Anderberg, Dan - 2020

provision of a range of services that include childcare, early education, health and parenting support. Local Authorities are …

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Parental Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 in Germany

Huebener, Mathias - 2020

We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a “disruptive exogenous shock” to family life. We make use of a novel...

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Women's Work, Housework and Childcare, Before and During COVID-19

Boca, Daniela Del - 2020

Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the effect of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. ties. According to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of...

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Universal Childcare for the Youngest and the Maternal Labour Supply

Kunze, Astrid - 2019

In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in...

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Mothers' Care : Reversing Early Childhood Health Shocks Through Parental Investments

Bellés-Obrero, Cristina - 2019

We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are...

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Parental Time Restrictions and the Cost of Children : Insights from a Survey Among Mothers

Borah, Melanie - 2019

In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental time restrictions. Building on a study by Koulovatianos et al. (2009) that introduces a novel way of using subjective income evaluation data for such estimations, we conduct a...

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The Gender Gap in Informal Child Care : Theory and Some Evidence from Italy

Barigozzi, Francesca - 2019

Our model studies couples' time allocation and career choices, which are affected by a social norm on gender roles in the family. Parents can provide two types of informal child care: basic care (feeding, changing children, baby-sitting) and quality care (activities that stimulate children's...

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Early Childcare Duration and Students' Later Outcomes in Europe

Boca, Daniela Del; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2022

The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the …

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