consequences of family support policy and stress the need for well-defined policy goals and careful analysis ahead of any reform …

career, especially for women. The recent German Elterngeld reform is one example: By replacing 67 per cent of prepartum … reform by using a natural experiment created by the quick legislative process of the Elterngeld reform: Comparing outcomes of … estimates of the reform effects, because at the time when these children were conceived none of the parents knew that the …

light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare …

childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public daycare. After the … reform, children are 8 percentage points less likely to attend public daycare which implies a compensated price elasticity of …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

Using three representative individual-level datasets for West Germany, we estimate the effect of the extension of …