Die starken Einschränkungen des Kita und Schulbetriebs infolge der Corona-Pandemie stellen in Deutschland mehr als vier Millionen Familien mit erwerbstätigen Eltern vor große Probleme, was die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie angeht. Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) aus Vorkrisenzeiten zeigen, dass nur in etwas mehr als der Hälfte aller Haushalte mit zwei erwerbstätigen Elternteilen zumindest ...
Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult children’s fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We exploit eligibility ages for early retirement ...
Since 2000, Germany is experiencing an expansion of early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions for children younger than three as well as increasing availability of full-day care for children aged three or older. More and more children attend ECEC centres for increasingly longer hours. Thus, ECEC centres are becoming an increasingly important environment for children and their parents. ...
Longitudinal studies have documented improvements in parents’ life satisfaction due to childbearing, followed by postpartum adaptation back to baseline. However, the details underlying this process remain largely unexplored. Based on past literature, set-point theory, and results from an exploratory sample, we investigated empirically how first childbirth affected satisfaction with specific domains ...
We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive exogenous shock" to family life. We make use of a novel representative survey of parental well-being collected in May and June 2020 in Germany, when schools and day ...
