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This paper analyzes whether individuals have equal opportunity to achieve happiness (or well-being). Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we estimate sibling correlations and intergenerational correlations in four self-reported measures of well-being: life satisfaction, satisfaction with household income, job satisfaction, and satisfaction with health. We find high sibling ...
In:
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
16 (2016), 1, 125-149
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Christoph Wunder
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In this paper, I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to investigate whether and how a German youth's choice of secondary school (Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium) varies with the timing and duration of poverty experienced in childhood. To investigate what role the timing of poverty plays, I examine the correlation between educational choices and the poverty status of each child's ...
In:
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung
70 (2001), 1, 172-179
| Anke Schöb
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This study investigates how the duration of the work interruption and the labor market status of mothers upon their return affect the division of housework in couples after a birth. By observing several parental leave policy reforms in Britain and West-Germany, this research also explores how extended leave entitlements for mothers influence the division of housework. The analysis uses multilevel multiprocess ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2011,
(SOEPpapers 422)
| Pia S. Schober
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This study investigates how the duration of maternal labor market interruptions and mothers' employment status after return relate to the division of domestic work in couples after childbirth in West Germany, East Germany, and Britain. It extends the literature by considering how these two aspects of postnatal labor market return decisions of mothers may give rise to or counteract growing gender ...
In:
Community, Work & Family
16 (2013), 3, 307-326
| Pia S. Schober
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Following two parental leave reforms in West Germany, this research explores how child care and housework time changed among couples who have just had a child. The reform in 1992 extended the low paid or unpaid parental leave period, whereas the 2007 reform introduced income-dependent compensation and two 'daddy months'. This study contributes to the literature by examining different mechanisms ...
In:
Journal of Social Policy
43 (2014), 2, 351-372
| Pia S. Schober
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This study investigates whether the expansion of day-care places for under-three-year-old children in East and West Germany from 2007 to 2011 has improved the subjective wellbeing for mothers and fathers with a youngest child in this age group. We extend existing cross-sectional country comparisons and single country policy evaluations by comparing regional variations over time in two different contexts ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2013,
(SOEPpapers 602)
| Pia S. Schober, Christian Schmitt
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This study investigates how the availability and expansion of childcare services for children aged under 3 years relate to the subjective wellbeing of German mothers and fathers. It extends previous studies by examining in more detail the relationship between day-care availability and use, maternal employment and parental subjective wellbeing during early childhood in a country with expanding childcare ...
In:
Journal of European Social Policy
27 (2017), 5, 433-446
| Pia S. Schober, Christian Schmitt
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We examine how children aged zero to 6 years with migration background and those who live with lone parents, or on low income or social assistance differ from other less disadvantaged groups in their use of formal ECEC services and nonformal education activities. Previous studies have shown that attendance rates are lower for children in some of these groups, who might benefit disproportionately from ...
In:
Child Indicators Research
6 (2013), 4, 709-735
| Pia S. Schober, C. Katharina Spieß
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By investigating how locally available early childhood education and care quality relates to maternal employment choices, this study extends the literature, which mostly has focused on the importance of day care availability or costs. The authors provide differentiated analyses by the youngest child's age and for West and East Germany to examine moderating influences, such as work-care cultures, ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
77 (2015), 3, 712-729
| Pia S. Schober, C. Katharina Spieß
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In East Germany, prior to reunification, day care provision was widely available to encourage mothers to return to work soon after giving birth. Conversely, in West Germany, child care facilities for the under-threes were few and far between and, at the end of the '80s/beginning of the '90s, the length of parental leave was gradually increased to up to three years following the birth of a ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
4 (2014), 11, 51-58
| Pia S. Schober, Juliane F. Stahl