[Objectives of the study] This survey report summarizes main information on the data collection process within the study 'Early childhood education and care quality in the Socio-Economic Panel' (SOEP-ECEC Quality). The project reran from September 2013 to April 2017 and was funded by the Jacobs...

Following the major expansion of day care provision in Germany in recent years, the quality of these programs has increasingly also been the subject of public debate. When evaluating the quality of German day care centers, experts have frequently concluded that there is considerable room for...

Nach dem starken Ausbau der Kapazitäten von Kindertageseinrichtungen in den letzten Jahren wird in jüngster Vergangenheit in der Öffentlichkeit auch vermehrt über die Qualität dieser Angebote diskutiert. Vielfach beurteilen Experten die Qualität in deutschen Kindertageseinrichtungen...

Economic theory predicts market failure in the market for early childhood education and care (ECEC) due to information asymmetries. We empirically investigate information asymmetries between parents and ECEC professionals in Germany, making use of a unique extension of the German Socio-Economic...

Economic theory predicts market failure in the market for early childhood education and care (ECEC) due to information asymmetries. We empirically investigate information asymmetries between parents and ECEC professionals in Germany, making use of a unique extension of the Socio-Economic Panel...

Since 2000, Germany is experiencing an expansion of early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions for children younger than three as well as increasing availability of full-day care for children aged three or older. More and more children attend ECEC centres for increasingly longer...

Economic theory predicts market failure in the market for early childhood education and care (ECEC) due to information asymmetries. We empirically investigate information asymmetries between parents and ECEC professionals in Germany, making use of a unique extension of the German Socio-Economic...

This study investigates whether an expansion of state-subsidized full-day childcare may improve the subjective well-being of mothers of children under school age by acting as a boundary-spanning resource to facilitate the combination of employment and childcare responsibilities. It extends...

Die Erwartungen der Menschen nach dem Mauerfall vor 25 Jahren und der Wiedervereinigung 1990 waren enorm. Die Regierung versprach, innerhalb weniger Jahre ,,blühende Landschaften" zu schaffen. Die Euphorie der Wiedervereinigung kam nicht nur durch den Wunsch zustande, endlich wieder ein Land...

In Ostdeutschland wurde vor der Wende durch eine weitreichende Verfügbarkeit von Kindertagesbetreuung eine rasche Rückkehr von Müttern in die Erwerbstätigkeit gefördert. In Westdeutschland existierte kaum institutionelle Kindertagesbetreuung für unter Dreijährige, und Ende der 80er und...