By investigating how locally available early childhood education and care quality relates to maternal employment choices, this study extended the literature which has mostly focused on the importance of day-care availability or costs. We provided differentiated analyses by the youngest child's...

Diese Studie untersucht die unterschiedlichen Betreuungsformen von Kindern und die Arbeitsmarktsituation von Müttern in Deutschland. Einen besonderen Schwerpunkt nimmt dabei der Zusammenhang zwischen der Form der Kinderbetreuung und dem Erwerbsverhalten der Mütter ein.

Not only the quantity of formal daycare provision for young children, but also its quality has become an issue of political concern. This experimental study investigates how a hypothetical improvement in the quality of daycare facilities shapes normative judgements regarding daycare use and...

Germany is known to have one of the lowest fertility rates among Western European countries and also relatively low employment rates of mothers with young children. Although these trends have been observed during the last decades, the German public has only recently begun discussing these...