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Center-based care and parenting activities
Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, Christa 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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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - 2006
We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
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The effect of early childhood education and care services on the social integration of refugee families
Gambaro, Ludovica; Neidhöfer, Guido; Spieß, Christa … - 2019
Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This paper focuses on the social integration of families seeking asylum in Germany between 2013 and 2016. Exploiting differences in services availability across counties as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140444
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Preferences for childcare policies: theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2008
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model … childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265034
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Culture and gender allocation of tasks: Source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US-immigrants
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...
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Building health across generations: Unraveling the impact of early childcare on maternal health
Barschkett, Mara; Bosque-Mercader, Laia - 2023
a crucial role in family dynamics. While previous research has established that public early childcare affects child … the household. This study investigates the impact of public early childcare on maternal short- and long-term health. Based … in childcare coverage rates across counties and time induced by a major German early childcare expansion. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442849
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Cracking under pressure? Gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in times of a pandemic
Danzer, Natalia; Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; … - 2021
suggest that the pandemic not only affected the short-term allocation of housework and childcare, but also reversed recent …
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Nobody to play with? The implications of leisure coordination
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Osberg, Lars - 2003
We hypothesize that an individual's time use choices are contingent on the time use choices of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household. We develop a model of time use, and demonstrate that its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324203
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Examining the gender wealth gap in Germany
Sierminska, Eva M.; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008
Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of pooled and equally shared resources among all household members. Yet the lack of individual-level data hampers the distribution of income and wealth within the household context....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324262
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Fathers, parental leave and gender norms
Unterhofer, Ulrike; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2017
Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in parental leave schemes. In this paper, we analyze whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638449