In der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) müssen einige Versicherte einen geringeren, andere einen höheren als den versicherungstechnisch äquivalenten Beitrag entrichten. Die dadurch bewirkte Umverteilung wird in der Sozialpolitik als sozialer Ausgleich bezeichnet. Der Beitrag entwickelt...

Recently, early investments in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments have attracted a great deal of attention. In a discrete version of the Mirrlees model with a parents' and a children's generation we show the intra-generational and the inter-generational...

This paper presents evidence from a natural-experiment which evaluates the effectiveness of a student mentoring program. The mentoring includes several compulsory, scheduled, faceto- face appointments between a mentor and a student in the first study year. All mentors are graduated and employed...

This paper presents the results of a randomized study of a home visiting program implemented in Germany for first-time mothers on welfare. A major goal of the program is to increase the participants economic self-sufficiency. I use administrative data from the Federal Employment Agency and...

This paper presents results from a randomized evaluation of a home visiting program for disadvantaged first-time mothers and their families implemented in Germany. 12 months after birth, the intervention increases infants' cognitive development by 0.18 SD. However, the effect fades out after 24...

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. I analysis the impact of the intervention on maternal employment, school attendance, child care use, fertility,...

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...

We investigate the impact of childcare provision on cases of child abuse and neglect in Germany between 2002 and 2014. For identification, we exploit a governmental reform introducing mandatory early child care. The implementation at the county level generated large temporal and spatial...

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...