-time employment for women, including mothers. The West German system by contrast deterred women in general, and mothers in particular …, from full-time employment. After reunification, family-related policies largely converged in the two Germanies. Against … this background, we empirically investigate gender-role attitudes in reunified Germany. Our results show that East Germans …

several dimensions of social capital. One identification strategy uses panel information to estimate value-added models. A … second exploits a quasi-experiment in East Germany created by a mistaken technology choice of the state …