We explore the decline in teen employment in the United States since 2000, which was sharpest for 16–17 year-olds. We consider three main explanatory factors: a rising minimum wage that could reduce employment opportunities for teens and potentially increase the value of investing in schooling; rising returns to schooling; and increasing competition from immigrants that, like the minimum wage, could ...
The availability of childcare is a crucial factor for mothers’ labour force participation. While most of the literature examines childcare for preschool children, we specifically focus on primary school-aged children, estimating the effect of formal afternoon care on maternal labour supply. To do so, we use a novel matching technique, entropy balancing, and draw on the rich and longitudinal data of ...
A person’s socioeconomic status (SES) can affect health (social causation) and health can affect SES (health selection). The findings for each of these pathways may depend on how SES is measured. We study (1) whether social causation or health selection is more important for overall health inequalities, (2) whether this differs between stages of the life course, and (3) between measures of SES. Using ...
Die neueste Ausgabe des Newsletters "Bildung und Familie @ DIW Berlin" ist erschienen, dieses Mal mit dem Schwerpunktthema Privatschulen. Darüber hinaus gibt es unter anderem jede Menge Publikationen aus dem letzten Vierteljahr dieses Jahres, eine Vorausschau auf spannende und hochkarätig besetzte Veranstaltungen im kommenden Frühjahr und ein Interview mit Daniel Schnitzlein, der sich ...
Frau Spieß, wie viele Privatschülerinnen und Privatschüler gibt es in Deutschland und wie hat sich deren Zahl in den vergangenen Jahren entwickelt?Inzwischen besucht fast jedes zehnte Kind in Deutschland eine Privatschule. Dabei stellen wir leichte Unterschiede zwischen West- und Ostdeutschland fest. Das Interessante aber ist die Entwicklung der vergangenen Jahre. Anfang 1992 zum Beispiel ...
Study Objectives: This study examines the change in mothers’ and fathers’ sleep satisfaction and sleep duration across pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, and postpartum up to six years after birth and examines potential protective and risk factors for sleep during that time.Methods: Participants of a large representative panel study from Germany reported sleep satisfaction and sleep duration...
This paper analyzes the impact of the German Parental Leave Reform on mothers' careers in the long run. To identify the causal effect, we use a difference-in-difference approach that compares labor market outcomes of mothers who gave birth just before and right after the reform and net out seasonal effects by including the year before. Using the total population of the Integrated Employment...
