This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence …. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation … interpretation of the estimates. On the one hand, we found a nil effect for parental unemployment on mental health. On the other hand …

This paper estimates the causal effect of increased availability of early childcare on maternal health. We focus on a … substantial expansion of childcare for children under three years in West Germany from 2006 to 2019. By matching county …-level childcare attendance rates with individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we are able to quantify the …

-lasting effects on fathers' involvement in childcare and housework. Effects on maternal labor supply are also significantly positive …

This study investigates the employment and childcare use behaviour of migrant and non-migrant mothers in Germany. We … identify significant associations between migration background and employment probability, working hours, and childcare usage … potential endogeneity of childcare use. We do not find an additional contribution of a migrant background to mothers' use of …

children below age 13 to investigate the paternal involvement in domestic childcare and the relation of the underlying … constellations which are most likely to manifest an increase in the proportion of paternal childcare in the post-pandemic period …

residence and fathers' childcare hours during a regular weekday. We explore the short-term gender and SP group associations with … childcare even in shared parenting settings and/or fail to redirect released childcare time to the labor market. Our data …

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model … childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed …

Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new … and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response ist strongest for single parents and low …