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Paid parental leave and child development : evidence from the 2007 German parental benefit reform and administrative data
Huebener, Mathias; Kuehnle, Daniel; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017
-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings …
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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...
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Parental leave reform and long-run earnings of mothers
Frodermann, Corinna; Wrohlich, Katharina; Zucco, Aline - 2020
leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers' long-term earnings. The 2007 German … parental leave reform replaced a means-tested benefit with a more generous earnings-related benefit that is granted for a … policy on long-run earnings of mothers, we use a difference-in-difference approach that compares labor market outcomes of …
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Family and labor market choices : requirements to guide effective evidence-based policy
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michał; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2012
Microsimulation methods and models of labor market decisions have attracted a lot of attention as an approach to the assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the context of relevant demographic theories and present...
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Financial support for families with children and its trade-off s balancing redistribution and parental work incentives
Myck, Michał; Kurowska, Anna; Kundera, Michał - 2013
Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In the end these trade-offs determine the effectiveness of policy with respect to the material situation of families and employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of...
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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
This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of the pandemic. Using data on gender role...
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Long run effects of universal childcare on personality traits
Bach, Maximilian; Koebe, Josefine; Peter, Frauke - 2019
Although universal childcare has become an essential tool to support child development, few economic studies analyze its effects on non-cognitive skills and little is known about causal effects on these skills in the long run. In this paper we go beyond short run analyses and examine the long...
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Behavioral barriers and the socioeconomic gap in child care enrollment
Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peter, Frauke; … - 2021
Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less likely to be enrolled. We study whether reducing behavioral barriers in the application process increases enrollment in child care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany...
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Demographic change, endogenous labor supply and the political feasibility of pension reform
Breyer, Friedrich; Stolte, Klaus - 2000
Options for reforming unfunded public pension schemes that are now being discussed all share the feature that the burden induced by demographic change would be shifted towards presently living and away from unborn generations. Existing models of the political economy of pension reform can not...
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Two steps forward - one step back? : evaluating contradicting child care policies in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - (This version: June 27 2014)
We apply a structural model of mothers' labor supply and child care choices to evaluate the effects of two childcare reforms in Germany that were introduced simultaneously in August 2013. First, a legal claim to subsidized child care became effective for all children aged one year or older....
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