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allows mothers to spend more time with their children. The additional childcare time is added to the already existing work …
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climb the job ladder with focus on the effect of children. We attempt to disentangle whether children directly affect … promotions, or whether the effect of children is correlated with effort. We find that the probability to progress on the career … ladder is decreased for women through children, but not for men. These effects are particularly strong at the lower and …
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analyses suggest that we do not estimate an effect for the most advantaged children, as the caring decision in families with …As the number of young children in daycare increases, people start to worry about the effect of early non-parental care … term development. Based on the German national health survey for children, we study the impact of daycare in pre …
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introduced that is granted to families who do not use public or publicly subsidized child care. Both reforms target children of … care has been introduced for all children aged one year or older. Second, a new benefit called Betreuungsgeld has been …
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about 20 percent of the national livestock. Results indicate that cohorts of children exposed to the 2010 winter and who … negative effect of the shock is strongest for children from herding households. Moreover, we explore the role of mitigation … channels to cushion the impact of the weather shock. In households where the head has more experience in herding, children …
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This paper examines the effects of a major change in German parental transfer system on fertility. I use the largely unanticipated reform of 2007 as a natural experiment to assess how an earnings-dependent parental leave benefit effects higher-order fertility. Given the recent introduction, this...
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introduced a set of reforms that led to a substantial expansion of public child care for under three year old children. Using …
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Friedrich Froebel, a German pedagogue, established the first kindergarten worldwide in Thuringia in 1839. We study the spatial dissemination of the kindergarten movement in Germany in the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Spatial dissemination can be explained by the cultural proximity,...
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Increasing mothers labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smooth- ing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...
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Young adults are the most hit by the current economic crisis. This can be observed in high youth unemployment rates in countries like Spain. At the same time fertility is relatively low in the most concerned countries whereas those in their fertile phase experience high unemployment rates. Based...
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