Eine Studie des ifo Instituts zeigt, dass der staatliche Ausbau von Krippenplätzen einen positiven Effekt auf die Anzahl der Geburten hat. Ein Anstieg der Betreuungsquote um 10 Prozentpunkte lässt die Anzahl der Geburten pro 1 000 Frauen um 1,2 steigen, dies entspricht einem Anstieg der...

Eine Studie des ifo Instituts zeigt, dass der staatliche Ausbau von Krippenplätzen einen positiven Effekt auf die Anzahl der Geburten hat. Ein Anstieg der Betreuungsquote um 10 Prozentpunkte lässt die Anzahl der Geburten pro 1 000 Frauen um 1,2 steigen, dies entspricht einem Anstieg der...

What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform generating large temporal and spatial variation in child care coverage for children under the age of three. Our precise and robust estimates on birth register data reveal that...

Over the last several decades, there has been a widespread decrease in civic engagement coinciding with a breakdown in traditional family structures in many countries throughout the developed world. According to Putnam in Bowling alone (2000), however, none of the major declines in civic...

What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform generating large temporal and spatial variation in child care coverage for children under the age of three. Our precise and robust estimates on birth register data reveal that...

In many parts of the developed world, governments devote a significant share of public funds to unconditional family cash transfers in an attempt to promote the economic well-being of households. But how successful are such policies? Germany has one of the world’s most generous child benefit...

Parenting practices play a crucial role in child development. We evaluate the impact of a free digital stress management and positive parenting intervention designed to reduce the prevalence of child maltreatment in El Salvador. Drawing on the prior success of in-person interventions, we study...