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SOEPpapers 1159 / 2022
Background: The transition to parenthood is characterized by far-reaching changes in life. However, little prospective-longitudinal evidence from general population samples exists on changes of general physical and mental health in the years around the birth of a child among mothers and fathers. Methods: Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this study examined continuous and ...
2022| Eva Asselmann, Susan Garthus-Niegel, Susanne Knappe, Julia Martini
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SOEPpapers 1155 / 2021
We examine the relationship between parenting activities and center-based care using time diary and survey data for mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we find that differences in the time spent on specific activities such as reading, talking, and playing with the child are relatively small or zero. The pattern of results ...
2021| Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spiess, Sevrin Waights
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
09.11.2022| Julie Tréguier
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyze whether changing the duration of one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit the introduction of short school years (SSYs) in Germany in 1966–1967, which compressed the education phase without affecting the curriculum. Based on difference-in-differences ...
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CESifo Economic Studies
68 (2022), 1, S. 1-45
| Josefine Koebe, Jan Marcus
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century. While small-scale experiments change behaviors among adults in the short-run, we know little about the effectiveness of large-scale policies or the longer-run impacts due to habit formation among children. To nudge primary school children into a long-term habit of exercising, the German state of Saxony distributed ...
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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
14 (2022), 3, S. 128-165
| Jan Marcus, Thomas Siedler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Two competing theories of social support and role specialization have been invoked to explain how marital status affects labour market outcomes. Whereas evidence of beneficial labour market outcomes among married men and employed married women favours a social support perspective, evidence of married women’s reduced labour market participation corresponds to a role specialization perspective. We make ...
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European Sociological Review
38 (2022), 1, S. 73–87
| Maik Hamjediers, Paul Schmelzer
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
The part-time wage penalty is a key contributor to the gender wage gap. In this paper, I study how the part-time penalty decomposes in a lack of promotions to higher paying levels of the career ladder and a lack of wage growth conditional on the career level. I develop a dynamic model of labor supply that distinctly features hierarchical wage structures and promotions. I estimate the...
26.10.2022| Boryana Ilieva
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Long periods of part-time work lead to a stagnation of wage growth. In this paper, I study how the wage stagnation decomposes in lack of career development and the lack of wage growth conditional on the career level. I develop a dynamic choice model of labor supply which distinctly incorporates vertical career moves to jobs paying higher wages as a function of the choice of hours of work. I...
15.06.2022| Boryana Ilieva
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper examines how culture impacts within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting thesetting of Germany’s division and reunification, I compare child penalties of East Germans whowere socialised in a more gender egalitarian culture to West Germans socialised in a gendertraditionalculture. Using a household panel, I show that the long-run child penalty on thefemale income share is 23.9 percentage ...
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European Economic Review
150 (2022), 104310, 18 S.
| Jonas Jessen
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Diskussionspapiere 2006 / 2022
It is often argued that institutionalized after-school care (ASC) can benefit children lacking adequate homework support at home and, hence, foster equality of opportunity. However, despite considerable policy interest, it is unclear whether these afternoon programs are beneficial for child development and if selection into them is efficient, i.e., whether students benefiting most from the programs ...
2022| Laura Schmitz