In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The present paper is … concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not …. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care usage on mother-child interaction are examined. The analysis is based on data …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … German setting where high quality center-based care is severely rationed and use within state differences in child care … supply as exogenous variation in child care attendance. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel provides comprehensive …

In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation …

This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare. Child benefits and subsidies for external child care are more effective …

Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less … likely to be enrolled. We study whether reducing behavioral barriers in the application process increases enrollment in child … care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (n > 600), treated families receive …

We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …

The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … are affected if schools and child-care centers remain closed. In most European countries, the share of affected working …