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...

We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4, 800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...

Our econometric research allows for a possible response of a person's hours worked tohours typically worked by members of a multidimensional labor market reference group thatconsiders demographics and geographic location...

This paper extends previous research about the determinants of reservation wages byanalysing the effect of progressive income taxation on the ratio between reservation and netmarket wages...