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This study investigates whether the expansion of day-care places for under-three-year-old children in East and West …, personal income, and life overall, whereas fathers' subjective well-being was less affected. In East Germany, for mothers the …
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effects prevail even after controlling for labour market and income-related factors. The findings are pronounced in Germany …
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This paper analyzes the extent to which intergenerational upward and downward mobility in earnings are related to individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study - whether the taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the hypothesis that after leaving the educational system, labour market integration has a causal effect on first-birth decisions. The analysis focuses on two major research questions: First, how is the timing of first parenthood associated with previous...
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This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children’s far right … the strongest and most important predictor for young people’s right-wing extremism are parents’ right-wing extremist …
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Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time … children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We … parent's early retirement significantly increases the probability of childbirth for adult children. However, parental …
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high school students and, if so, whether the effect on individuals from low-income households is particularly strong. We … decrease of around eight percentage points (ten percent). Individuals from low-income households mainly drive the results. This …
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting the staggered implementation of a compulsory schooling reform in West Germany, this article finds that an additional year of schooling lowers the probability of being very concerned about immigration to Germany by around six...
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-intact family and children's civic, social and political engagement as adults. We argue that this finding is consistent with …
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Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...
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