This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting …

regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education … better care for their children, thus increasing the socioeconomic gap. …

the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we measure parental investments by considering the time parents spend with … their child doing formative activities. By adopting a child fixed-effect instrumental variable estimation to address …

While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … short- and medium-run effects of early child care attendance in Germany using a fuzzy discontinuity in child care starting … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of …

While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio … short- and medium-run effects of early child care attendance in Germany using a fuzzy discontinuity in child care starting … age between December and January. This discontinuity arises as children typically start formal child care in the summer of …

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. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings …