Research in educational economics has shown that parental quality explains a large proportion of the variance in early childhood development. This paper uses the representative SOEP data to study the connection between early childhood development and objective as well as subjective indicators...

More and more children in Germany attend formal day care. How does family policy influence this attendance? Which effect do particular family policies have and in how far do these effects differ among different family types? This question is dealt with in the first part of this contribution. It...

Untersuchungsgegenstand dieses Beitrags ist der Einfluss der regionalen Versorgung mit Kindertageseinrichtungen auf das Erwerbsverhalten von westdeutschen Müttern mit kleinen Kindern, die noch nicht schulpflichtig sind. Basierend auf den Daten des SOEP (1998) und zusätzlichen Informationen der...