welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany. …-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants’ economic self-sufficiency and family … effects of the intervention on maternal employment, welfare benefits, and household composition. The study reveals that the …

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children … under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long …

-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, life-satisfaction and well-being. Biannual telephone interviews with … the participating mothers until the third birthday of the child give a rich data source to evaluate these outcomes. I find …

data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in … for the time-invariant variables such as race and maternal education. This would not be feasible with the usual mother …

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in … reading skills of birth cohorts that gained access to mother tongue-based primary education after 1994 improved significantly … by about 11 percentage points. The provision of primary education in mother tongue halved the reading skills gap between …

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in … reading skills of birth cohorts that gained access to mother tongue-based primary education after 1994 improved significantly … by about 11 percentage points. The provision of primary education in mother tongue halved the reading skills gap between …