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A Forgotten Issue : Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany
Spiess, C. Katharina; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Wagner, Gert G. - 2021
In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321237
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A forgotten issue: distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001512482
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A forgotten issue: distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela - 2000
In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269212
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A forgotten issue : distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339100
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A forgotten issue : distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433776
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Early child care and child outcomes : the role of grandparents
Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, … - 2014
In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419071
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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299373
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Status preferences and optimal corrective taxes : a note
Beckmann, Klaus; Gattke, Susan - 2008
We take issue with the argument expounded, among others, by Layard (2006, Economic Journal) that status-seeking preferences justify heavier taxation of income because this serves to internalise the negative externality that the pursuit of status imposes on others. In a model where status depends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779044
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The interaction of publications and appointments : new evidence on academic economists in Germany
Beckmann, Klaus; Schneider, Andrea - 2009
Using a new panel dataset comprising publication and appointment data for 889 German academic economists over a quarter of a century, we confirm the familiar hypothesis that publications are important for professorial appointments, but find only a small negative effect of appointments on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003823314
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Genes, legitimacy and hypergamy : another look at the economics of marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901742