Um benachteiligte Familien mit Kindern unter drei Jahren zu unterstützen, wurde im Jahr 2007 das Nationale Zentrum Frühe Hilfen gegründet. Ein Modellprojekt dieses Zentrums ist das Hausbesuchsprogramm 'Pro?Kind', in dem Familienbegleiterinnen transferbeziehende Mütter von der Schwangerschaft...

We investigate the impact of childcare provision on cases of child maltreatment. For identification, we exploit a governmental reform introducing mandatory early childcare in Germany that generated large temporal and spatial variation in childcare coverage at the county-level. Using high-quality...

Background: Home visiting programs constitute an important policy to support vulnerable families with young children. They mainly aim to improve infant-parent relationships, however evidence on their effectiveness based on observational measures is relatively scarce. The present study provides...

Background: Home visiting programs constitute an important policy to support vulnerable families with young children. They mainly aim to improve infant-parent relationships, however evidence on their effectiveness based on observational measures is relatively scarce. The present study provides...

We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health outcomes. Our analysis exploits a randomized controlled trial and combines rich longitudinal survey data with unique administrative health data. In a context in which the...

This paper presents results from a randomized evaluation of a home visiting program for disadvantaged first time mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. At the end of the first year of the program, children in home visited families perform significantly better than...

In seiner Stellungnahme zum Gesetzentwurf der Bundesregierung zur Einführung einer Kindergrundsicherung geht das IAB auf die angestrebten Ziele und deren Erreichbarkeit unter folgenden Aspekten ein: Reduzierung von Kinderarmut, Erhöhung der Inanspruchnahme der den Kindern zustehenden...

Using novel longitudinal data, this paper studies the short- and medium-term effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 on social trust of adolescents in Germany. Comparing adolescents who responded to our survey shortly before the start of the war with those who responded...