We examine the effect of single motherhood on children's secondary school track choice using a sample of 14 years old … children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In line with previous studies for the U.S., the U.K. and Sweden, we find a … negative correlation between disrupted family structure and children's educational outcome. Looking for alternative …

information on all births. Our estimation approach accounts for motherhood being a staggered treatment. The reform has small …

More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care … entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000 children in one West German state, we use a marginal treatment effects … framework to show how causal effects vary with observed characteristics of children, parents, and care centers and with …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children's age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …

household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that …

. The estimated ITT effect shows a decline by 0.24 cases per 1,000 children if a county increases childcare slots above the …