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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This study examines how inheritance and gift tax systems in combination with gendered parental transfer behavior strengthen gender wealth inequalities. Gender differences in transfers can be reproduced if men benefit differently than women from tax exemptions. This might happen when men and women receive different types of assets where only some are tax exempted. To investigate gendered parental...
31.05.2023| Daria Tisch, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
We study the local evolution of female labour supply and cultural norms in West Germany in reaction to the sudden presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with high rates of maternal employment, whereas West German families mostly followed the traditional breadwinner-housewife model. We find that West German women increase their labour supply and ...
In:
The Economic Journal
(2021), im Ersch.
| Jonas Jessen, Sophia Schmitz, Felix Weinhardt
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Externe Monographien
In dieser Dissertation werden verschiedene Möglichkeiten analysiert, wie politische Entscheidungsträger die Bildung von Humankapital und die Entstehung von Ungleichheiten in diesem Bereich beeinflussen können. Sie besteht aus vier in sich abgeschlossenen empirischen Forschungsarbeiten, die jeweils einen Beitrag zur bildungsökonomischen Analyse der Bildung von Humankapital leisten. Unter Berücksichtigung ...
Berlin:
Freie Universität Berlin,
2023,
XXII, 219 S.
| Laura Schmitz
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full-time earnings of more than 15%. We decompose this early gender gap and find that especially differences in coefficients help explain different expectations. In particular, the effects of having time for family as career motive and being first-generation college student are associated ...
In:
Economics of Education Review
94 (2023), 102398
| Andreas Leibing, Frauke Peter, Sevrin Waights, C. Katharina Spieß
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Social norms are put forward as a prominent explanation for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational transmission of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early socialization of women but also that of their partner. Using large representative panel data sets from West Germany, ...
In:
Socio-Economic Review
20 (2022), 1, S. 281-322
| Sophia Schmitz, C. Katharina Spiess
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This is the first paper to examine experimentally effects of information provision on beliefs about pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns of postgraduate education, enrolment intentions and realized enrolment. We find that our treatment causally affects beliefs measured six months after treatment. The effects on beliefs differ by gender and academic background, and we find that stated enrolment intentions ...
In:
Economica
89 (2022), 355, S. 627-646
| Jan Berkes, Frauke Peter, C. Katharina Spieß, Felix Weinhardt
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Diskussionspapiere 2016 / 2022
I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impact of the benefit amount available to high-earning women after their first childbirth on subsequent within-couple earnings inequality. Lower benefit amounts result in a reduced earnings gap that persists beyond the benefit period for at least nine years after the birth. The longer-term impacts are driven by ...
2022| Sevrin Waights
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of day care centres and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There has been much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany from spring 2020 and winter 2021 we present an empirical analysis that shows that although gender inequality ...
In:
German Economic Review
23 (2022), 4, S. 641–667
| Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spiess, Sevrin Waights, Katharina Wrohlich
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Referierte Aufsätze 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 ...
In:
European Economic Review
150 (2022), 104310, 18 S.
| Jonas Jessen
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
23.06.2021| Katharina Wrohlich