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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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Punching up or punching down? : how stereotyping the rich and the poor impacts redistributive preferences in Germany

Diermeier, Matthias; Fischer, Madeleine L.; Niehues, Judith - 2023

Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific societal groups as 'deserving' or 'undeserving'. The present analysis contributes to this scholarship in a twofold manner. First, it provides a holistic view on the beneficiaries and...

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Do wind turbines have adverse health impacts?

Krekel, Christian; Rode, Johannes; Roth, Alexander - 2023

While wind power is considered key in the transition towards net zero, there are concerns about adverse health impacts on nearby residents. Based on precise geographical coordinates, we link a representative longitudinal household panel to all wind turbines in Germany and exploit their staggered...

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The effect of schooling on parental integration : evidence from Germany

Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie - 2023

Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...

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Minimum wage non-compliance : the role of co-determination

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2023

We analyse in what way co-determination affects non-compliance with the German minimum wage, which was introduced in 2015. The Works Constitution Act (WCA), the law regulating co-determination at the plant level, provides works councils with indirect means to ensure compliance with the statutory...

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