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. ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
240 (2020), 1, S. 111-120
| C. Katharina Spieß, Pia S. Schober, Juliane F. Stahl
This study investigates how the durations of childcare leaves taken by mothers and fathers in Germany relate to the gender division of housework and childcare after labour market return. It examines to what extent changes in economic resources because of leave take-up may account for adaptations in the division of domestic work of dual-earner couples. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel ...
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European Societies
21 (2019), 1, S. 158-180
| Pia S. Schober, Gundula Zoch
Economic theory predicts market failure in the market for early childhood education and care (ECEC) due to information asymmetries. We empirically investigate information asymmetries between parents and ECEC professionals in Germany, making use of a unique extension of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SEOP). We compare quality perceptions by parents and by professionals across 734 institutions. We detect ...
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Education Economics
26 (2018), 6, S. 624-646
| Georg F. Camehl, Pia S. Schober, C. Katharina Spieß
This study examines how educational differences in work-care patterns among mothers with young children in Germany changed between 1997 and 2013. Since the mid-2000s, Germany has undergone a paradigm shift in parental leave and childcare policies. Our comparative analysis of East and West Germany provides new evidence on whether the long-standing gender regime differences interact with recent developments ...
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Work, Employment and Society
32 (2018), 4, S. 629-649
| Pia S. Schober, Juliane F. Stahl
This study examines whether children from potentially disadvantaged families attend early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers of lower quality compared to more advantaged children in the universal and strongly state-subsidized ECEC system in Germany. We combine the representative German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with the 2014 K2ID- SOEP extension study on ECEC quality. We run linear and logistic ...
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Early Childhood Research Quarterly
44 (2018), S. 304-317
| Juliane F. Stahl, Pia S. Schober, C. Katharina Spieß
This study investigates whether an expansion of state-subsidized full-day childcare may improve the subjective well-being of mothers of children under school age by acting as a boundary-spanning resource to facilitate the combination of employment and childcare responsibilities. It extends previous studies that showed contradictory results by demonstrating that the relationship with parental subjective ...
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European Sociological Review
32 (2016), 5, S. 593-606
| Pia S. Schober, Juliane F. Stahl