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This study investigates whether the expansion of day-care places for under-three-year-old children in East and West Germany from 2007 to 2011 has improved the subjective well-being for mothers and fathers with a youngest child in this age group. We extend existing cross-sectional country...
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on parents carried over to the entire family, making special groups of children worse off than others? To answer this …
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-raising benefit, a higher benefit and two additional months extending the reference period if both parents participate in child …
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In this paper, we use SOEP data to explore whether parents' employment has an extra effect on the school achievement of … of income or parents' unemployment determine children's school achievements. Second, we analyze the effect of job …
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In this paper the relationship between parental unemployment at time of children's labor market entrance on the quality of their children's first job is analyzed. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1991-2012 the quality of the first job in terms of wage,...
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particular, the investigation considers the significance of Identity Economics when applied to parents experiencing a reduction … the effects of becoming “empty nest” parents in a systematic way …
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and gender. In particular, among better educated parents, the richer see the arrival of a child more negatively. Parental … in terms of preferences among different groups of parents, and work and family balance …
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We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their … children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …
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This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence...
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We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three...
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