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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
This study uses administrative data on the universe of students in tertiary education in Germany and shows that university enrollment depends negatively on the local unemployment rate at high school graduation. This finding contradicts common evidence on countercyclical US undergraduate enrollment. Students' financial dependency and loan aversion suggest reduced parental income as dominant...
18.01.2023| Andreas Leibing
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
16.11.2022| Judith Vornberger, University of Würzburg (JMU)
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Externe referierte Aufsätze
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 ...
In:
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
14 (2022), 3, S. 128-165
| Jan Marcus, Thomas Siedler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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Externe referierte Aufsätze
We study the rapidly growing literature on the causal effects of financial education programs in a meta-analysis of 76 randomized experiments with a total sample size of over 160,000 individuals. Many of these experiments are published in top economics and finance journals. The evidence shows that financial education programs have, on average, positive causal treatment effects on financial knowledge ...
In:
Journal of Financial Economics
145 (2022), S. 255–272
| Tim Kaiser, Annamaria Lusardi, Lukas Menkhoff, Carly Urband
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Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge
In:
VoxEU.org
(17.02.2022), [Online-Artikel]
| Lukas Menkhoff, Tim Kaiser, Annamaria Lusardi, Carly Urban
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Externe Monographien
Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several cohorts in Saxony and two neighboring states. Our difference-indifferences estimations show that, even after a ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2021,
64 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 14246)
| Jan Marcus, Thomas Siedler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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Externe referierte Aufsätze
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 ...
In:
European Sociological Review
38 (2022), 1, S. 73–87
| Maik Hamjediers, Paul Schmelzer
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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
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DIW Roundup 140 / 2022
Credit decisions play an important role for the economic wellbeing of households. However, the complexity of products and varying price information display makes it hard for consumers to navigate this field. Empirical evidence has important implications for consumer protection policies, as many people fail to make optimal choices for themselves and struggle to understand credit cost information. Presenting ...
2022| Antonia Gipp