Take-up of a social benefit is usually defined as receiving a benefit for which an individual or
household is eligible. The take-up rate is the fraction of those eligible for a program who …

This article compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for
disadvantaged children within and across generations. Instead of conducting a standard …

Social norms affect a wide range of behaviors in society. We conducted a representative
experiment to study how beliefs about the existing social norm regarding COVID-19 …

This study examines the role of formal childcare under the age of three in tackling the early
social inequality in children's cognitive and socio-emotional competencies in Germany, by …

We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care.
We send emails from fictitious parents to> 18, 000 early child care centers across Germany …

Family policies not only provide money, time and infrastructure to families, but also convey
normative assumptions about what is considered desirable or acceptable in paid work and …

We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care,
using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n≈ 4 …

This study investigates discrimination against women when searching and applying for
childcare in a nationwide field experiment. We send emails from fictitious parents to 9,313 …

I investigate the effect of teacher subject-specific qualifications on student science
achievement using data from TIMSS 2015, a large-scale assessment of student skills. I …

In the present study, we examine the extent to which demographic factors, including
household subsidy receipt, predict child care access among families with low incomes. To …