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Improving the allocation of spots in child care facilities for toddlers in Germany : a mechanism design approach
Carlsson, Sissa; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2015
The undersupply of spots in German daycare facilities for toddlers challenges parents' possibilities to work. To ease the situation, the government implemented a new law entitling every child between ages one and three to daycare supervision for about four hours per day. Nevertheless, the...
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Single motherhood in East and West Germany : what can explain the differences?
Jirjahn, Uwe; Struewing, Cornelia - 2015
The share of single mothers is higher in East Germany than in West Germany. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel … of couples with minor children. Women in East Germany have both a higher probability of out-of-partnership birth and a … East and West Germany. The differences in single motherhood appear to be rather driven by cultural and economic factors. …
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Two steps forward - one step back? : evaluating contradicting child care policies in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - (This version: June 27 2014)
reforms in Germany that were introduced simultaneously in August 2013. First, a legal claim to subsidized child care became …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374162
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Day-care expansion and parental subjective well-being : evidence from Germany
Schober, Pia S.; Schmitt, Christian - 2013
Germany from 2007 to 2011 has improved the subjective wellbeing for mothers and fathers with a youngest child in this age … regionally aggregated data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for 2007 to 2011 and from the 'Families in Germany …'-Study (Familien in Deutschland, FID) for 2010 and 2011. We apply fixed-effects models at the county level. We find that in regions …
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If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands : how do mothers and fathers really feel about child caregiving?
Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - 2013
This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender differences in how men and women who have done some child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009783670
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A multilevel analysis of child care and the transition to motherhood in Western Germany
Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - 2002
in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436265
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Two steps forward - one step back? : evaluating contradicting child care policies in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014
reforms in Germany that were introduced simultaneously in August 2013. First, a legal claim to subsidized child care became …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415793
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Two steps forward : one step back? ; evaluating recent child care policies in Germany ; conference paper
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - This version: March 1st 2014, Preliminary and incomplete
In August 2013, two child care reforms have come into effect at the same time: First, a legal claim to formal child care has been introduced for all children aged one year or older. Second, a new benefit called Betreuungsgeld has been introduced that is granted to families who do not use public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486037
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Does early child care help or hurt children's development?
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2014
More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care before age 3 have better or worse language and motor skills, socio-emotional maturity, and school readiness just before entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000...
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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; … - 2021
parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany we present an empirical analysis that shows greater support for …
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