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Paid Parental Leave and Child Development : Evidence from the 2007 German Parental Benefit Reform and Administrative Data

Huebener, Mathias - 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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Information Asymmetries between Parents and Educators in German Childcare Institutions

Camehl, Georg - 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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Long Run Effects of Universal Childcare on Personality Traits

Bach, Maximilian - 2019

Although universal childcare has become an essential tool to support child development, few economic studies analyze … paper we go beyond short run analyses and examine the long run effects of one additional year of universal childcare on … important predictors of later educational achievements. As of 1996, a legal entitlement to universal childcare applied to …

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Understanding Day Care Enrolment Gaps

Jessen, Jonas - 2019

We document day care enrolment gaps by family background for children under 3 in Germany. Research demonstrates that children of less-educated or foreign-born parents benefit most from day care, making it important to understand the causes of such enrolment gaps. Using a unique data set that...

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School Entry, Afternoon Care and Mothers' Labour Supply

Gambaro, Ludovica - 2016

Most literature on the relationship between childcare availability and maternal labour force participation examines … childcare for preschool aged children. Yet families must continue to arrange childcare once their children enter primary school … highlight how childcare availability shapes maternal employment patterns well after school entry …

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Pension Wealth and Maternal Employment : Evidence from a Reform of the German Child Care Pension Benefit

Thiemann, Andreas - 2015

This paper uses administrative data to investigate how a change in pension wealth affects a mother's employment decision after child birth. I exploit the extension of the child care pension benefit in 1992 as a natural experiment in a regression discontinuity design to estimate short- and...

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Behavioral Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peter, Frauke; … - 2021

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...

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Does Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care Affect the Home Learning Environment of Children?

Kuger, Susanne - 2017

Both, a high quality of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) setting and a high quality of the home learning environment foster children's development. However, we know little about the interactions between ECEC quality and the home learning environment. We examine whether the child's...

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Helping with the Kids? How Family-Friendly Workplaces Affect Parental Well-Being and Behavior

Lauber, Verena - 2017

workplace policy, namely childcare support, affects the well-being, working time, and caring behavior of mothers with young … more family-friendly workplaces. These changes over time allow us to identify causal effects of childcare support using a … (FiD), we find evidence pointing to welfare enhancing effects of childcare support, as it strongly increases both childcare …

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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Wrohlich, Katharina - 2011

This paper presents an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...

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