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Parental Well-Being in Times of Covid-19 in Germany

Huebener, Mathias - 2020

We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive exogenous shock" to family life. We make use of a novel...

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Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany

Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2020

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Parental well-being in times of COVID-19 in Germany

Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2020

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Factors Influencing the Neighborhood Supply of Childcare in Massachusetts

Witte, Ann Dryden; Queralt, Magaly; Sjostedt, Patricia A. - 1998

the relationship between the socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods and their supply of licensed childcare. We … find that the supply of licensed childcare in Massachusetts is strongly and significantly related to the number of children … in the population: the larger the population of children, the more abundant the community's supply of childcare services …

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Center-Based Care and Parenting Activities

Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina; Waights, Sevrin - 2022

We examine the relationship between parenting activities and center-based care using time diary and survey data for mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we find that differences in the time spent on specific...

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Sharing the Caring? The Gender Division of Care Work During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany

Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina; Waights, Sevrin; … - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of daycare centers and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There is much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany we...

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The Structure of Early Care and Education in the United States : Historical Evolution and International Comparisons

Witte, Ann Dryden - 2004

Most European governments have universal, consolidated, education-based ECE programs that are available from early in the morning to late in the evening throughout the year. European ECE programs are uniformly of high quality, generally last at least three years, and are funded to serve all...

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What Happens When Child Care Inspections and Complaints Are Made Available on the Internet?

Witte, Ann Dryden - 2004

We provide substantial evidence that placing child care provider inspection and complaint reports on the Internet changed the behavior of child care inspectors and improved the quality of child care received by low-income children. We believe that these results were forthcoming in part because:...

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Impacts of Eligibility Expansions and Provider Reimbursement Rate Increases on Child Care Subsidy Take-Up Rates, Welfare Use and Work

Witte, Ann Dryden - 2003

We find that reforms in the Rhode Island subsidized child care program, including income and age eligibility expansions and increases in the reimbursement rates paid to formal providers, significantly increased the likelihood that current and former welfare families: a) would use child care...

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Understanding Day Care Enrolment Gaps

Jessen, Jonas - 2019

We document day care enrolment gaps by family background for children under 3 in Germany. Research demonstrates that children of less-educated or foreign-born parents benefit most from day care, making it important to understand the causes of such enrolment gaps. Using a unique data set that...

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