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The situation is serious, but not hopeless - evidence-based considerations on the intracouple division of childcare before, during and after the Covid-19 lockdown
Boll, Christina; Schüller, Simone - 2020
Drawing on data from the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) for 2018, we use a sample of 2,145 heterosexual couples with children below age 13 to investigate the paternal involvement in domestic childcare and the relation of the underlying mechanisms to the two job-related "Covid-19 factors" systemic...
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Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany
Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2020
We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive exogenous shock" to family life. We make use of a novel...
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Psychische Gesundheit im zweiten Covid-19 Lockdown in Deutschland
Entringer, Theresa Margareta; Kröger, Hannes - 2021
Lockdown. Beide Werte blieben aber weiterhin deutlich über dem Vor-Pandemie Niveau. Die Einsamkeit der in Deutschland lebenden … Deutschland im zweiten Covid-19 Lockdown (Januar/Februar 2021) mit der Situation im ersten Lockdown (März bis Juli 2020). Im … Menschen war auch im zweiten Lockdown im Vergleich zum Vor-Pandemie Niveau noch stark erhöht, stieg jedoch im Vergleich zum …
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Coronavirus & care: how the coronavirus crisis affected fathers' involvement in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Zinn, Sabine - 2020
Background: As a response to the spread of the coronavirus in Germany, day care centres and schools closed nationwide, leaving families to grapple with additional child care tasks. In Germany, as in many other societies, women shoulder the lion's share of housework and child care...
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Subjektive Belastung der Eltern durch Schulschließungen zu Zeiten des Corona-bedingten Lockdowns
Zinn, Sabine; Bayer, Michael - 2020
Die Corona-bedingten Schulschließungen sowie die Schließung von Kinderbetreuungseinrichtungen im April und Mai 2020 haben viele Eltern vor eine immense Herausforderung gestellt. Plötzlich mussten Kinder ganztags Zuhause betreut und beschult werden. In diesem Beitrag beschäftigen wir uns mit...
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Gender, loneliness and happiness during COVID-19
Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; … - 2022
We analyse a measure of loneliness from a representative sample of German individuals interviewed in both 2017 and at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Both men and women felt lonelier during the COVID-19 pandemic than they did in 2017. The pandemic more than doubled the gender...
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Evolution and determinants of rent burdens in Germany
Backhaus, Teresa; Gebers, Kathrin; Schröder, Carsten - 2015
The affordability of housing has become a major topic of discussion in Germany among both social scientists and the public at large. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we provide rent-income ratios over more than two decades and show how they change with households’...
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How a universal music education program affects time use, behavior, and school attitude
Hille, Adrian - 2015
It is still widely debated how non-cognitive skills can be affected by policy intervention. For example, universal music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries. These are intended to give children from poor families the...
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Working-time mismatch and mental health
Otterbach, Steffen; Wooden, Mark; Fok, Yin King - 2016
Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working-time mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours) on mental health, as measured by the Mental Component Summary Score from the SF-12. Fixed effects and...
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Non-take-up of student financial help : a microsimulation for Germany
Herber, Stefanie P.; Kalinowski, Michael - 2016
This paper estimates the percentage of students who do not take up their federal need-based student financial aid entitlements and sheds light on determinants of this behavior. Against the background that educational mobility in Germany is low although extensive student financial aid for needy...
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