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The effects of family policy on mothers' labor supply : combining evidence from a structural model and a natural experiment

Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014

Parental leave and subsidized child care are prominent examples of family policies supporting the reconciliation of family life and labor market careers for mothers. In this paper, we combine different empirical strategies to evaluate the employment effects of these policies for mothers in...

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Early birds in day care : the social gradient in starting day care and children's non-cognitive skills

Peter, Frauke; Schober, Pia S.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2014

In recent years, almost all children below school age in Western industrialized countries have some experience of attending day care institutions. However, the age at which children enter day care and therefore the overall time spent in day carevaries substantially. We investigate the potential...

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Does grandparenting pay off for the next generations? : intergenerational effects of grandparental care

Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021

Grandparents act as the third largest caregiver after parental care and daycare in Germany, as in many Western societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as...

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Center-based care and parenting activities

Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina; Waights, Sevrin - 2020

We estimate effects of center-based care on parenting activities using time use data for Germany. Our estimates imply that center-based care reduces the overall time that parents spend with the enrolled child, but has only small negative effects on time spent doing activities together....

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Information asymmetries between parents and educators in German childcare institutions

Camehl, Georg F.; Schober, Pia S.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017

Economic theory predicts market failure in the market for early childhood education and care (ECEC) due to information asymmetries. We empirically investigate information asymmetries between parents and ECEC professionals in Germany, making use of a unique extension of the German Socio-Economic...

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Paid parental leave and child development : evidence from the 2007 German parental benefit reform and administrative data

Huebener, Mathias; Kuehnle, Daniel; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017

This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth....

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Health of elderly parents, their children's labor supply, and the role of migrant care workers

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Paetzold, Jörg; … - 2020

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market out- comes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian...

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Die Dauer vorschulischer Betreuungs- und Bildungserfahrungen Ergebnisse auf der Basis von Paneldaten

Büchner, Charlotte (contributor); … - 2007

Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welche Faktoren damit in Zusammenhang stehen, wie viele Jahre ein Kind vor Schuleintritt eine Betreuungs- und Bildungseinrichtung besucht und ob die Dauer des Besuchs von Kindertageseinrichtungen mit dem späteren Schultyp in Verbindung steht. Die empirische...

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Kinderbetreuung und Fertilität in Deutschland

Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2003

Versorgung mit bedarfsgerechter Kinderbetreuung. Eine umfassendes Angebot an Betreuungsplätzen fördert jedoch nicht nur die … regionalen Verfügbarkeit von Kinderbetreuung auf das Geburtenverhalten west- und ostdeutscher Frauen in den Jahren 1996 bis 2000 …. Zentrales Ergebnis unserer Analyse ist, dass in den östlichen Bundesländern die Verfügbarkeit institutioneller Kinderbetreuung …

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Evaluation of the Reggio approach to early education

Biroli, Pietro; Del Boca, Daniela; Heckman, James J.; … - In: Research in economics : an international review of economics 72 (2018) 1, pp. 1-32

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