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A forgotten issue : distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....

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Does grandparenting pay off for the next generations? : intergenerational effects of grandparental care

Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021

effects on parental satisfaction with the childcare situation and leisure. The effects for mothers correspond to an increase … of 11 percent in satisfaction with the childcare situation and 14 percent in satisfaction with leisure, compared to the … mean, although the results differ by child age. While the increase in paternal satisfaction with the childcare situation is …

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European mothers' time with children : differences and similarities across nine countries

Joesch, Jutta M.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2002

We use data from the 1996 wave of the European Community Household Panel to present and compare the weekly number of hours mothers of children less than 16 years of age reported looking after children in nine European countries in 1996. In addition, we explore to what extent cross-country...

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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, C. Katharina - 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...

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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 …

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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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Preferences for childcare policies : theory and evidence

Borck, Rainald (contributor); … - 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 … support for the ends-against-the-middle result. -- Childcare ; redistribution ; political preferences ; public provision of …

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Labor supply and child care choices in a rationed child care market

Wrohlich, Katharina (contributor) - 2006

In this paper, I suggest 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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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? : evidence from a structural model

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...

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