Angesichts der hohen Kinderarmut in Deutschland sollte die neue Kindergrundsicherung rasch kommen. Doch die Gefahr ist groß, dass das Projekt aus Kostengründen scheitert. Vielen Kindern in Deutschland geht es nicht gut. Denn fast jedes fünfte Kind ist von Armut bedroht. Besonders diese Kinder leiden unter der hohen Inflation. Zudem gehören Kinder und Jugendliche zu den Hauptleidtragenden der Corona-Pandemie. ...
Our paper contributes to the literature studying how household conditions can influence children’s development, focusing on the type of family model where children grow up, defined on the basis of parental employment status and relative earnings. The traditional “male-breadwinner” model is no longer the only type of family that has been observed throughout recent decades; the “dual-breadwinner” family ...
In contemporary households, women often shoulder most organisation and caregiving responsibilities leading them to play a crucial role in family dynamics. While previous research has established that public early childcare affects child outcomes and maternal employment, less attention has been given to its effects on maternal health despite its relevance within the household. This study investigates ...
In this paper we analyse the association between maternal well-being and child development at different ages. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) which captures maternal life satisfaction and numerous cognitive and non-cognitive child development outcomes. We identify a strong positive association between mothers’ life satisfaction and their children’s development when these are ...
Objectives SARS-CoV-2 infections were unequally distributed during the pandemic, with those in disadvantaged socioeconomic positions being at higher risk. Little is known about the underlying mechanism of this association. This study assessed to what extent educational differences in SARS-CoV-2 infections were mediated by working from home.Methods We used data of the German working population derived ...
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation of the individual labor market condition. ...
Wirtschaftskraft soll eigentlich große Rolle für Berechnung des Königsteiner Schlüssels spielen, wird letztlich aber kaum berücksichtigt – Zuweisung etwa von Geflüchteten und Bildungsinvestitionen in vielen Fällen nicht angemessen – Diskussion über bedarfsgerechte Lastenverteilung nötig Der sogenannte Königsteiner Schlüssel verteilt Gelder und Aufgaben zwischen den Bundesländern. Dabei ist eigentlich ...