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Parental child care time, income, and subjective well-being : a multidimensional polarization approach for Germany

Merz, Joachim; Peters, Normen - 2019

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is time which enables and restricts individual activities and is a further brick to a more comprehensive picture of individual well-being. In our study we focus on a prominent part...

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Effects of early childhood intervention on fertility and maternal employment : evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Sandner, Malte - 2015

This paper presents the results of a randomized study of a home visiting program implemented in Germany for low-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants’ economic self-sufficiency and family planning. I use administrative data from the German...

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Die Dauer vorschulischer Betreuungs- und Bildungserfahrungen : Ergebnisse auf der Basis von Paneldaten

Buchner, Charlotte; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2007

Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welche Faktoren damit in Zusammenhang stehen, wie viele Jahre ein Kind vor Schuleintritt eine Betreuungs- und Bildungseinrichtung besucht und ob die Dauer des Besuchs von Kindertageseinrichtungen mit dem späteren Schultyp in Verbindung steht. Die empirische...

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Parental Education and Parental Time with Children

Guryan, Jonathan - 2014

Beckerian framework of time allocation with a view toward establishing whether parental childcare appears to be more akin to …

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Center-based care and parenting activities

Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina; Waights, Sevrin - 2021

We examine the relationship between parenting activities and center-based care using time diary and survey data for mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we find that differences in the time spent on specific...

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Birth Order and Delinquency : Evidence from Denmark and Florida

Breining, Sanni - 2017

Birth order has been found to have a surprisingly large influence on educational attainment, yet much less is known about the role of birth order on delinquency outcomes such as disciplinary problems in school, juvenile delinquency, and adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative...

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The Effects of Accountability Incentives in Early Childhood Education

Bassok, Daphna - 2017

In an effort to enhance the quality of early childhood education (ECE) at scale, nearly all U.S. states have recently adopted Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS). These accountability systems give providers and parents information on program quality and create both reputational and...

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Suddenly a stay-at-home dad? : short- and long-term consequences of fathers' job loss on time investment in the household

Hennecke, Juliane; Pape, Astrid - 2020

Commonly described as the "gender care gap", there is a persistent gender difference in the division of domestic responsibilities in most developed countries. We provide novel evidence on the short- and long-run effects of an exogenous shock on paternal availability, through a job loss, on the...

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Intra-household time allocation : gender differences in caring for children

García Mainar, Inmaculada; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2009

This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of … a general efficiency approach, hours spent on childcare by each parent are regressed against individual and household … Household Panel-ECHP (1994-2001). Empirical results show a clear inequality in childcare between fathers and mothers, with this …

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The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education : Evidence from a Failed Policy Experiment

DeCicca, Philip - 2011

We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy experiment in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings imply starting Kindergarten one year late substantially reduces the probability of repeating the third grade, and meaningfully...

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