Bisherige Untersuchungen zur Bedeutung des Besuchs einer Kindertageseinrichtung (Kita) für die kindliche Entwicklung analysieren vorrangig den Einfluss quantitativer Aspekte (beispielsweise des Platzangebots). Wichtig sind aber auch qualitative Aspekte, die aktuell im Zug des Kita-Ausbaus vermehrt diskutiert werden. Die Diskussion beschränkt sich jedoch häufig auf eine Förderung der Fähigkeiten von ...
There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for ‘children’ who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of values and behaviors known to be associated with happiness (Headey et al. in Proc Natl Acad Sci 107(42):17922–17926, ...
Bei der Erwerbsentscheidung von Müttern mit jungen Kindern ist es von großer Bedeutung, ob ihnen einen Platz in einer Kindertageseinrichtung zur Verfügung steht. Dies wurde vielfach untersucht. Dabei blieb bislang jedoch die Frage außen vor, inwiefern die Qualität der Betreuungseinrichtungen für mütterliche Erwerbsentscheidungen relevant ist. Dieser Forschungsfrage gehen wir auf der Basis von Daten ...
We analyze the effect of the receipt of remittances on the education and health of children in Kyrgyzstan during a volatile period of their recent history, 2005–2009. The country experienced revolution in 2005 and the global financial crisis beginning in 2008. Both events impact human capital investment, and the changes vary by region of the country. We use fixed effects estimation and fixed effects, ...
How to best provide incentives for a more gender-equal division of domestic work has entered policy debates in many Western countries. Growing evidence suggests that a gender-traditional division of household labor may result in lower fertility rates and greater risk of relationship breakdown and correlates with gender employment and wage gaps. Partly in response, many European countries have implemented ...
We provide new evidence on the impact of one severe weather shock on child height in Mongolia. Our focus is on the extremely harsh winter – locally referred to as dzud – of 2009/10, which caused more than 23 percent of the national livestock to perish. This resulted in a food insecurity situation for many Mongolian households. Our analysis identifies causal effects by exploiting exogenous variation ...
Paper 1: Estimating Heterogeneous Returns to Education in Germany via Conditional HeteroskedasticityIn this paper I investigate the causal returns to education for different educational groups in Germany by employing a method by Klein and Vella (2010) that bases identification on the presence of conditional heteroskedasticity. Compared to IV methods, key advantages of this approach are unbiased estimates ...
