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• Events // 31.05.2023

  Effects of Universal and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Child Maltreatment

  maltreatment referrals, they find that an additional $1,000 to families reduces the likelihood that a child is referred to Children’s Services by age 3 by 2.0 percentage points, or about 10 percent, on average [...] cash transfers increase the probability that children live with their mothers and lower mortality by age 5.
• Projects // 01.03.2023

  Dynamic Interaction between Informal Long-Term Caregiving and Social Insurances in Germany

  provision by family members in Germany. Family members are the most important providers of informal outpatient LTC. While two-thirds of eldercare is provided by women, most care is given by women aged 55-70.
• Projects // 01.01.2007

  Kindergarten Attendance and Educational Success - An Analysis Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)

  in Germany. School attainment was measured as secondary school track choice and school grades at age 16. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP) 1984-2005, we assemble a [...] selectivity of the kindergarten decision by controlling for the socio-economic status of the parents and family structure during early childhood. 76 percent of the children in our sample attended kindergarten
• Projects // 01.10.2005

  Private home ownership in the context of old-age provision

  Förderung"). In particular, a model should be constructed that accounts for families specific needs with respect to old age provision, as these households carry a triple burden consisting of contributions [...] comprehensive integration of owner occupied housing in the public support programmes for capital-based old age provision.The goal is to analyse models which allow equal treatment of real estate and monetary [...] expenses related to the upbringing of their children and the accumulation of their own respective old age capital.The research project´s general objective is to develop proposals thatreduce
• Events // 08.03.2023

  Innovation Nation Evidence from Broadening Access to PhD Training in the U.S.

  paper's authors use an event study design to study how the opening of PhD programs during the peak ages of graduate study affects degree receipt of people born in each state. Furthermore, they explore whether [...] expansion of PhD programs on access for minority, immigrant, rural, and lower socioeconomic status families. The authors also study how the location and field of study of the PhD program openings affects
• Events // 31.05.2022

  Like Mother, like Child? The Rise of Women’s Intergenerational Income Persistence in Sweden and the United States

  tional earnings mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States, focusing on prime-age labor incomes of cohorts born between 1952 and 1993. For the commonly estimated father-son association [...] career chances. They also point to the importance of considering either both males and females and/or family incomes for a full understanding of mobility trends. To further understand the factors driving the
• Events // 13.10.2021

  Froebel’s Gifts: How the Kindergarten Movement Changed the American Family

  predictions of a quantity-quality trade-off model, immigrant families exposed to kindergartens significantly reduced fertility. Their offspring at age 10-15 were more likely to attend school, they worked less
• Events // 14.04.2021

  Child Skill Production Accounting for Parental and Market-Based Time and Goods Investments

  production technology for children ages 12 and younger. Their estimates suggest complementarity between parental time and home goods/services inputs as well as between these family-based inputs and market-based [...] substitutability of different investment inputs and the way parental skills affect the productivity of family-based inputs. Third, the authors develop an estimation strategy that exploits infratemporal optimality [...] counterfactual simulations to explore the extent and sources of variation in investments across families, as well as investment responses to changes in input prices. The authors find that variation in
• Events // 18.02.2021

  A Firm-Side Perspective on Parental Leave

  While longer parental leave can help reconcile work and family life for parents, longer worker absences increase the gap in firms' business operations. The paper presented in this ZEW Research Seminar [...] employment gap in the short-run. The paper finds evidence that affected firms hire fewer women of fertile ages in replacement hiring and subsequent hiring, suggesting that firms internalise the costs  of [...] provide support for statistical discrimination in the labour market against women of childbearing age.
• Publications // 06.10.2020

  ZEW expert brief - Rethinking Schooling

  outcomes. Our empirical analysis for primary school aged children shows that school closures could exacerbate inequalities relating to a child’s family-background. Some schools, and particularly dedicated [...] instruction. However, it is precisely in these cases that non-school-related factors, such as the family environment, may become increasingly important once again and reinforce existing inequalities. [...] doing justice to the need for equality even in times of school closures. This will be possible if age-appropriate high-quality instruction no longer needs to be tied to the school as a physical location