We estimate effects of center-based care on parenting activities using time use data for Germany. Our estimates imply …

, particularly for second-generation men with children. Our findings suggest that broader cultural factors do influence the gender …

difference-in-differences approach combined with matching. Based on a large panel dataset on families with children in Germany … children. We exploit the fact that since the mid 2000s an increasing number of employers have become proactive and implemented … satisfaction and job satisfaction. In particular mothers who worked limited hours before the introduction, possibly due to …

I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impact of the benefit amount … benefits also reduce take-up of paid leave by mothers, lower the chances of having further children, and have no impact on …

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 … children, one important aspect of non-cognitive skills. Based on the English sample of the Millennium Cohort Study, we analyse …

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. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings …

employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of … toward maternal employment dropped substantially in 2021. This drop is observed for men in West Germany, who showed a steady …

low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children … to be -7.1 percentage points. However, we find no effect of additional children on female employment among families with …

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 …