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Building health across generations : unraveling the impact of early childcare on maternal health

Barschkett, Mara; Bosque-Mercader, Laia - 2023

a crucial role in family dynamics. While previous research has established that public early childcare affects child … the household. This study investigates the impact of public early childcare on maternal short- and long-term health. Based … in childcare coverage rates across counties and time induced by a major German early childcare expansion. Our results …

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Cracking under pressure? : gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in times of a pandemic

Danzer, Natalia; Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; … - 2021

suggest that the pandemic not only affected the short-term allocation of housework and childcare, but also reversed recent …

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Culture and gender allocation of tasks : source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US-immigrants

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020

There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...

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A multilevel analysis of child care and the transition to motherhood in Western Germany

Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - 2002

In this paper, we take a multilevel perspective to investigate the role of child care in the transition to motherhood in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child care arrangements should be a central element of the local...

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European mothers' time with children : differences and similarities across nine countries

Joesch, Jutta M.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2002

We use data from the 1996 wave of the European Community Household Panel to present and compare the weekly number of hours mothers of children less than 16 years of age reported looking after children in nine European countries in 1996. In addition, we explore to what extent cross-country...

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For some mothers more than others : how children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - 2012 - Corrected version, November 2012

We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children. Among families with at least one child we identify the...

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Does subsidized care for Toddlers increase maternal labor supply? : evidence from a large-scale expansion of early childcare

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2018

Expanding public or publicly subsidized childcare has been a top social policy priority in many industrialized … this paper, we analyze the causal effect of one of the largest expansions of subsidized childcare for children up to three … temporal variation in the expansion of publicly subsidized childcare triggered by two comprehensive childcare policy reforms …

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Understanding day care enrolment gaps

Jessen, Jonas; Schmitz, Sophia; Waights, Sevrin - 2019

We document day care enrolment gaps by family background for children under 3 in Germany. Research demonstrates that children of less-educated or foreign-born parents benefit most from day care, making it important to understand the causes of such enrolment gaps. Using a unique data set that...

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Paid parental leave and child development : evidence from the 2007 German parental benefit reform and administrative data

Huebener, Mathias; Kuehnle, Daniel; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017

This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth....

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School entry, afternoon care and mothers' labour supply

Gambaro, Ludovica; Marcus, Jan; Peter, Frauke - 2016

Most literature on the relationship between childcare availability and maternal labour force participation examines … childcare for preschool aged children. Yet families must continue to arrange childcare once their children enter primary school … highlight how childcare availability shapes maternal employment patterns well after school entry. …

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