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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; 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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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
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 - 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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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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Misallocation and manufacturing TFP in China and India
Chang, Tai Hsieh; Peter, J- Klenow - 2007
Resource misallocation can lower aggregate total factor productivity (TFP).We use microdata on manufacturing establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India versus the United States. We measure sizable gaps in marginal products of labor and capital across...
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The Economics and Econometrics of Gene-Environment Interplay
Biroli, Pietro; Galama, Titus; von Hinke, Stephanie; … - 2022
Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now be informed by the ready availability of genetic data in a growing number of social science datasets. This paper...
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The economic research potentials of the German Socio-Economic Panel study
Schröder, Carsten; König, Johannes; Fedorets, Alexandra; … - In: German Economic Review 21 (2020) 3, pp. 335-371
We provide a concise introduction to a household-panel data infrastructure that provides the international research community with longitudinal data of private households in Germany since 1984: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We demonstrate the comparative strength of the SOEP data in...
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