Thema Familie

Time Spent on School-Related Activities at Home during the Pandemic: A Longitudinal Analysis of Social Group Inequality among Secondary School Students

Substantial educational inequalities have been documented in Germany for decades. In this article, we examine whether educational inequalities among children have increased or remained the same since the school closures of spring 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our perspective is longitudinal: We compare the amount of time children in secondary schools spent on school-related activities at home ...

Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples

Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the wellbeing of work-linked couples. Our study fills this gap by examining the satisfaction differences between work-linked ...

Kindergesundheit im ersten Corona­Lockdown: Weniger Behandlungsfälle und weniger Diagnosen von Infektionen

Während des ersten Corona-Lockdowns im Frühjahr 2020 sind die Behandlungsfälle von Kindern in ambulanten Arztpraxen um bis zu 20 Prozent zurückgegangen. Wie diese Studie auf Basis administrativer Diagnosedaten aller gesetzlichen Krankenkassen in Deutschland zeigt, wurden im zweiten Quartal 2020 im Vergleich zum Vorjahreszeitraum bei ein- bis zwölfjährigen Kindern vor allem deutlich weniger körperliche ...

Gesundheitsprävention in Kitas und Schulen sollte höheren Stellenwert erhalten: Interview

Familien im Fokus der Bundestagswahl: Ein Bekenntnis zur Systemrelevanz von Familien

Nachdem die Familie am Anfang der Pandemie kaum eine Bedeutung hatte, wird inzwischen vielfach über die Belastung der Familien diskutiert. Fakt ist, Familien sind in der Pandemie in mehrfacher Hinsicht stark belastet. Jedoch nicht alle in gleichem Umfang. Das sollte den Parteien im Bundestagswahlkampf 2021 klar sein, wenn es darum geht die Folgen der Pandemie für Familien abzumildern und Versäumtes ...

Trade Shocks, Fertility, and Marital Behavior

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to trade on the fertility and marital behavior of German workers. We find that individuals working in sectors that were more affected by import competition from Eastern Europe and suffered worse labor market outcomes were less likely to have children. In contrast, workers in sectors that benefited from increased ...

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Subjektive Belastung der Eltern durch die Beschulung ihrer Kinder zu Hause zu Zeiten des Corona-bedingten Lockdowns im Frühjahr 2020

Die Corona-bedingten Schulschließungen sowie die Schließung von Kinderbetreuungseinrichtungen im April und Mai 2020 haben viele Eltern vor eine immense Herausforderung gestellt. Plötzlich mussten Kinder ganztags Zuhause betreut und beschult werden. In diesem Beitrag beschäftigen wir uns mit der Frage nach der subjektiven Belastung, der sich Eltern durch die Beschulung ihrer Kinder Zuhause ausgesetzt ...

Employment Responses to Income Effect: Evidence from Pension Reform

For the design of the pension system, it is crucial to disentangle the employment responses related to the substitution effect and the income effect. In this paper, we provide causal evidence regarding the importance of the income effect, which is generally assumed to be small or non-existent. We exploit a pension reform in Germany that raised pension bene- fits related to children. For the identification, ...

Child Health during the First Coronavirus Lockdown in Germany: Fewer Treatment Cases and Fewer Diagnoses of Infections

During the first coronavirus lockdown in Germany in spring 2020, treatment cases of children in outpatient care declined by up to 20 percent. As this study based on administrative diagnosis data of all statutory health insurance companies in Germany shows, there were significantly fewer physical diseases, such as infections, diagnosed in one to 12-year-old children in the second quarter of 2020 compared ...