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Effects of early childhood intervention on fertility and maternal employment : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Sandner, Malte - 2015
welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391650
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Early child care and child development : for whom it works and why
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2013 - First version: October 2009, This version: December 2012
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children's age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009707612
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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
societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health …, taking into account counterfactual care modes. Our results suggest null or negative effects on children's outcomes: If … children three years and older are in full-time daycare or school and, in addition, cared for by grandparents, they have more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012666701
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Center-based care and parenting activities
Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina; Waights, Sevrin - 2021
We examine the relationship between parenting activities and center-based care using time diary and survey data for mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we find that differences in the time spent on specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798269
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The effect of education on fertility : evidence from a compulsory schooling reform
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - 2012
This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two complementary data sets, we examine different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687925
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Self-productivity in early childhood
Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007
Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630292
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The baby year parental leave reform in the GDR and its impact on children's long-term life satisfaction
Heisig, Katharina; Zierow, Larissa - 2019
children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123526
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The influence of child care on maternal health and mother-child interaction
Kröll, Alexandra; Borck, Rainald - 2013
condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found with regard to mothers' mental health. Overall …, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal care interact with them more frequently. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231576
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Taxing childcare : effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Saß, Björn - 2012 - This version: March, 2012
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541775
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Shared parenting and parents' income evolution after separation - new explorative insights from Germany
Boll, Christina; Schüller, Simone - 2021
Based on panel data from 1997 to 2018, we investigate the socioeconomic preconditions and economic consequences of 'shared parenting (SP)' forms in Germany. Referring to the post-separation year, we build SP groups from information on child residence and fathers' childcare hours during a regular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587604