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Research Project
Are some groups of parents in Germany more likely to choose high quality institutions for their children than others, e.g. because they lack the necessary information or have varying preferences? Are mothers whose children attend high-quality settings more satisfied and more likely to be employed?
These are some of the questions, on which the project ‘Early childhood education and care quality...
Completed Project
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SOEPpapers 600 / 2013
This paper is a contribution to the second World Happiness Report. It makes five main points. 1. Mental health is the biggest single predictor of life-satisfaction. This is so in the UK, Germany and Australia even if mental health is included with a six-year lag. It explains more of the variance of life-satisfaction in the population of a country than physical health does, and much more than unemployment ...
2013| Richard Layard, Dan Chisholm, Vikram Patel, Shekhar Saxena
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SOEPpapers 610 / 2013
Grandparents are regular providers of free child care. Similar to other forms of child care, availability of grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor force participation of women positively. However, grandparent-provided child care requires residing close to parents or in-laws which may imply costly spatial restrictions. We find that mothers residing close to parents or in-laws have ...
2013| Eva García-Morán, Zoë Kuehn
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DIW Economic Bulletin 5 / 2013
For many years, securing equal life opportunities has been a normative goal shared by all democratic societies in the western world. Although, in principle, all citizens enjoy the same rights, in reality, individual life opportunities still vary according to family background which, in turn, shapes the prevailing pattern of social inequality. This is not a specifically German phenomenon. Based on a ...
2013| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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DIW Discussion Papers 1297 / 2013
Negative effects of job loss on adults such as considerable fall in income have long been examined. If job loss has negative consequences for adults, it may spread to their children. But potential effects on children's non-cognitive skills and the related mechanisms have been less examined. This paper uses propensity score matching to analyze maternal involuntary job loss and its potential causal effect ...
2013| Frauke H. Peter
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Externe Working Papers
We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that Kyrgyzstan, like Eastern European middle income transition economies, generally maintained high educational mobility, ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2013,
31 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 7318)
| Tilman Brück, Damir Esenaliev
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SOEPpapers 561 / 2013
The purpose of this paper is to assess if parents exert an influence on the occupation choices of their children. Using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistency of occupational decisions across fathers and children using nested and conditional logit models. To separate effects related to genetic factors (nature) and parental education or role models (nurture), we ...
2013| Bodo Knoll, Nadine Riedel, Eva Schlenker
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SOEPpapers 615 / 2013
In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The expansion in coverage is particularly pronounced for under 3 year-olds. The present paper is concerned with how mothers' mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care usage on mother-child interaction ...
2013| Alexandra Kröll, Rainald Borck
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SOEPpapers 573 / 2013
Wenn es um die Frage der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf geht, wird meist die Betreuungsproblematik von erwerbswilligen und erwerbstätigen Müttern mit Kleinkindern betrachtet. Diese Analysen zeigen jedoch, dass ein Ausbau der Betreuung von Schulkindern in Deutschland ähnliche Effekte erzielen kann wie die vielfach diskutierte und anlysierte Wirkung der Kleinkindbetreuung. Auf Basis der Daten des ...
2013| Verena Tobsch
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SOEPpapers 571 / 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages in Germany, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Educational mismatch has been discussed extensively, mostly by applying OLS wage regressions which are prone to an unobserved heterogeneity bias. This problem is approached by using FE and IV models. As a stability check, the regressions are rerun using data from the International ...
2013| Jan Kleibrink