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    School Entry, Afternoon Care, and Mothers’ Labour Supply

    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 ...

    In: Empirical Economics 57 (2019), 3, S. 769-803 | Ludovica Gambaro, Jan Marcus, Frauke H. Peter
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    The Effect of Increasing Education Efficiency on University Enrollment: Evidence from Administrative Data and an Unusual Schooling Reform in Germany

    We examine the consequences of compressing secondary schooling on university enrollment. An unusual education reform in Germany reduced the length of academic high school while simultaneously increasing the instruction hours in the remaining years. Accordingly, students receive the same amount of schooling but over a shorter period of time. Based on a difference-in-differences approach and using administrative ...

    In: Journal of Human Resources 54 (2019), 2, S. 468-502 | Jan Marcus, Vaishali Zambre
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    Compressing Instruction Time into Fewer Years of Schooling and the Impact on Student Performance

    Is it possible to compress instruction time into fewer school years without lowering education levels? A fundamental reform in Germany reduced the length of academic track schooling by one year, while increasing instruction hours in the remaining school years to provide students with a very similar core curriculum and the same overall instruction time. Using aggregated administrative data on the full ...

    In: Economics of Education Review 58 (2017), S. 1-14 | Mathias Hübener, Jan Marcus
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    Increased Instruction Hours and the Widening Gap in Student Performance

    Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) over almost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves student performance. However, treatment effects ...

    In: Labour Economics 47 (2017), S. 15-34 | Mathias Huebener, Susanne Kuger, Jan Marcus
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    Veränderungen in der gruppenspezifischen Nutzung von ganztägigen Schulangeboten: Längsschnittanalysen für den Primarbereich

    Seit Beginn des Bundes-Investitionsprogramms „Zukunft Bildung und Betreuung“ (IZBB) im Jahr 2003 hat sich der Anteil der Grundschulkinder, die ganztägig eine Schule besuchen, mehr als vervierfacht. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht der vorliegende Beitrag zum einen, welche demografischen und sozioökonomischen Merkmale Kinder aufweisen, die ganztägige Schulangebote nutzen. Zum anderen wird der Frage ...

    In: Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft 19 (2016), 2, S. 415-442 | Jan Marcus, Janina Nemitz, C. Katharina Spieß
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    Wealth Distribution within Couples

    While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German socio-economic panel study. In married and cohabiting couples men's net worth, on average, is 33,000euros higher than women's. We look at five different sets of factors (demographics, ...

    In: Review of Economics of the Household 13 (2015), 3, S. 459-486 | Markus M. Grabka, Jan Marcus, Eva Sierminska
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    Reducing Binge Drinking? The Effect of a Ban on Late-Night-Off-Premise Alcohol Sales on Alcohol-Related Hospital Stays in Germany

    Excessive alcohol consumption among young people is a major public health concern. On March 1, 2010, the German state of Baden-Württemberg banned the sale of alcoholic beverages between 10 pm and 5 am at off-premise outlets (e.g., gas stations, kiosks, supermarkets). We use rich monthly administrative data from a 70% random sample of all hospitalizations during the years 2007–2011 in Germany in order ...

    In: Journal of Public Economics 123 (2015), S. 55-77 | Jan Marcus, Thomas Siedler
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    Does Job Loss Make You Smoke and Gain Weight?

    This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behaviour and body weight using German SOEP data. Baseline non-smokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify smoking. In particular, single individuals and those with lower health or socioeconomic status prior to job loss exhibit high rates of smoking initiation. Job loss increases body weight ...

    In: Economica 81 (2014), 324, S. 626-648 | Jan Marcus
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    The Effect of Unemployment on the Mental Health of Spouses: Evidence from Plant Closures in Germany

    Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on plant closure as entry into unemployment, and combines difference-in-difference and matching based on entropy balancing ...

    In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013), 3, S. 546-558 | Jan Marcus
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    Spillover Effects of Maternal Education on Child's Health and Health Behavior

    This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich German panel data set containing information about three generations. This allows instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on grandparental characteristics. The instrumental variables approach has not yet been used in the intergenerational context ...

    In: Review of Economics of the Household 11 (2013), 1, S. 29-54 | Daniel Kemptner, Jan Marcus
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