This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting …

conflict is an empirical question and here it is resolved via an assessment of the change in life satisfaction that is reported … goes on to do: The found reduced life satisfaction seems to be wholly moderated if the last child leaves the nest for the …

To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both … cohorts 1964-1972. We show that this unadjusted gender lifetime earnings gap increases strongly with the number of children …, ranging from 17.8 percent for childless women to 68.0 percent for women with three or more children. However, using a …

Using novel time-use data from Germany before and after reunification, we document two facts: First, spouses who both … housework spheres in the GDR, West Germany, subsequent years post-reunification, and in international time-use data across 17 … children. …