C Katharina Spiess
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5737461 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | C Katharina Spiess |
| NOMBRES | C Katharina |
| APELLIDO | Spiess |
| FIRMA | SPIESS C K |
| AFILIACIONES | German Institute for Economic Research |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-5932-7022 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 171 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Maternal Life Satisfaction and Child Development from Toddlerhood to Adolescence
We analyse how maternal life satisfaction impacts child development at different ages from toddlerhood to adolescence. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, which captures maternal life satisfaction and various age-specific measures of child development, we identify a strong positive association between mothers’ life satisfaction and their children’s development when these are toddlers (2-3 years), of primary school age (5-10 years) and in adole…
Comparative Population Studies at Fifty
The 50th volume of Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) is a significant milestone in the journal's history, offering us the opportunity to reflect on its development into a key platform for population research, major achievements, and future aspirations. Besides a retrospective, we present a forward-looking perspective, outlining our vision for the journal's trajectory in an ever-changing scientific landscape. Furthermore, we offer insights fro…
How perceived daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment
Not only the quantity of formal daycare provision for young children, but also its quality has become an issue of political concern. This experimental study investigates how a hypothetical improvement in the perceived quality of daycare facilities shapes normative judgements regarding daycare use and working hours for parents with young children in Germany. The analysis is framed with theoretical concepts of ideals and accommodations of childcare…
A new data infrastructure for family research and demographic analysis
This data brief introduces the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA; https://www.freda-panel.de/), a longitudinal, multi-actor database for family research. Major substantive fields addressed in the questionnaire include fertility-related attitudes and behaviours, reproductive health, work-family conflict, couples' division of labour, gender roles, intimate relationships, separation and divorce, parenting and intergenerational relations, a…
Does the Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care Centers Mitigate the Risk of Externalizing Problems? A Genetic-Sensitive Study of Preschoolers in Germany
This paper examines the extent to which quality characteristics of early childhood education and care (ECEC) experienced at ages 4–6 influence externalizing problems at ages 6–8. Based on a random sample of 713 same-sex twins (55% female, 41% with a migration background) in 364 ECEC centers in Germany, the paper not only distinguishes between detailed ECEC quality characteristics but additionally investigates whether these characteristics affect …
Crowded‐out? Changes in informal childcare during the expansion of formal services in Germany
Informal childcare care by grandparents, other relatives or friends is an important source of support in many Western countries, including Germany. Yet the role of this type of care is often overlooked in accounts of social policies supporting families with children, which tend to focus on formal childcare. This article examines whether the large formal childcare expansion occurring in Germany in the last two decades has been accompanied by simil…
Information intervention on long-term earnings prospects and the gender gap in major choice
This study investigates whether an intervention that provided high school seniors with information on costs and economic returns to tertiary education and on the long-term earnings prospects of college graduates from different study fields enhances the probability that male and female students opt for financially more rewarding study fields and for business-related or STEM fields with a lower share of women. It extends our understanding on the po…
Gender gaps in early wage expectations
Day care availability and awareness of gendered economic risks
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 family care. This study conceptualises and empirically investigates how priming respondents with brief media report-like information on existing day care policy entitlements and economic consequences of maternal employment interruptions may change personal normative ju…
Should Mama or Papa Work? Variations in Attitudes towards Parental Employment by Country of Origin and Child Age
Employment among mothers has been rising in recent decades, although mothers of young children often work fewer hours than other women do. Parallel to this trend, approval of maternal employment has increased, albeit not evenly across groups. However, differences in attitudes remain unexplored despite their importance for better understanding mothers’ labour market behaviour. Meanwhile, the employment of fathers has remained stable and attitudes …
The Past, Present and Future of CPoS
In this editorial note, we reflect on the trajectory of Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) over the last decades, highlight major milestones along the road, and sketch our hopes and ideas for its future development. In 1975, the predecessor journal of CPoS named ZfB was established as the scientific journal of the newly founded German Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB). As the Institute grew its international collaborations and th…
Parental Leave Policies, Usage Consequences, and Changing Normative Beliefs
In this study, we conceptualize and provide novel empirical evidence on norm-setting effects of family policies by investigating how priming with parental leave policy-related information may alter normative beliefs regarding the gender division of parental leave in Germany. We implemented a survey experiment in two waves of the representative German GESIS Panel in 2019 and 2020. Respondents received one of three short evidence-based information …
Information Provision and Postgraduate Studies
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 change accordingly; in particular, males ad…
The intergenerational transmission of gender norms-why and how adolescent males with working mothers matter for female labour market outcomes
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, results suggest that women with partners who gre…
Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany
We examine the effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of day care center and school closures, which may be regarded as a “disruptive exogenous shock” to family life. We make use of a novel representative survey of parental well-being collected in May and June 2020 in Germany, when schools and day care centers were closed but while other measures had been re…
Covid-19 Associated Contact Restrictions in Germany
Children have a low risk for severe COVID-19 infections, but indirect consequences of the pandemic may affect their health. We evaluated nationwide data on children's outpatient visits before and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Data from the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians for all children with statutory health insurance and at least one physician's office visit between January 2019 and Jun…
Familien im Fokus der Bundestagswahl
Pädagogische Konzeptionen von Kindertageseinrichtungen – Deskription eines pädagogischen Instruments
Sowohl die Praxisliteratur zum Einrichtungsmanagement als auch der Gesetzgeber sehen pädagogische Konzeptionen als ein probates Mittel zur Steuerung der Qualität von Kindertageseinrichtungen. Die vorliegende Studie untersuchte 583 Kita-Konzeptionen von Einrichtungen aus ganz Deutschland mithilfe eines neu entwickelten Codierschemas und quantitativen Analysemethoden. Im Zentrum stehen zwei Fragen: erstens inwiefern Qualitätsmerkmale in den Dokumen…
Zentren für Familien
Während Kindertageseinrichtungen primär auf Kinder ausgerichtet sind, haben Zentren für Familien die gesamte Familie im Blick. Im Idealfall bilden sie einen Knotenpunkt in einem nachbarschaftlich orientierten Netzwerk. In den letzten Jahren haben entsprechende Ansätze deutschlandweit an Bedeutung gewonnen. Welche empirische Evidenz gibt es für ihre Wirkungen auf Kinder, Eltern und Familien? Dieser Frage widmet sich dieser Beitrag, um der Politik …
Geflüchtete, Familien und ihre Kinder. Warum der Blick auf die Familien und die Kindertagesbetreuung entscheidend ist
Seit 2015 viele Menschen mit Fluchthintergrund nach Deutschland gezogen sind, stand häufig deren Arbeitsmarktintegration im Zentrum des gesellschaftlichen, politischen und wissenschaftlichen Interesses. Lebenslagen und Lebensformen der geflüchteten Familien wurden hingegen viel weniger thematisiert. Dieser Beitrag präsentiert familiendemografische Daten für Geflüchtete der Herkunftsländer Syrien, Afghanistan, Irak und Eritrea und verdeutlicht den…
Das Bildungswesen in Deutschland
Das Werk biete einen aktuellen und umfassenden Überblick des Bildungswesens in Deutschland über die gesamte Lebensspanne hinweg: von der frühen Bildung, Betreuung und Erziehung, über die allgemeinbildende und berufliche Schule, die Hochschule und Weiterbildung bis zur Bildung im Erwachsenenalter. Die bewertende Reflexion über Herausforderungen und Strategien soll Bildungspotenziale - für die Einzelnen wie für die Gesellschaft - besser nutzbar mac…
Early Childhood Education and Care Services and Child Development
This essay analyses universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) services from an economic perspective focusing on universal ECEC approaches. First, it examines the effectiveness of ECEC expansions, reviewing research using quasi‐experimental approaches. It then discusses the possible mechanisms underlying the measured effects. These are related to both direct effects from ECEC services on children and indirect ones occurring via maternal …
Parental socio-economic status and childcare quality
Veränderungen in der gruppenspezifischen Nutzung von ganztägigen Schulangeboten - Längsschnittanalysen für den Primarbereich
Spite and cognitive skills in preschoolers
Other-regarding preferences in adults have been examined in depth in the literature. Research has shown that spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation. However, there is little evidence of the factors explaining spiteful behavior in children. We investigate the relationship between children’s cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214 preschoolers aged 5–6 and their mothers. Here, …
The Parental Leave Benefit Reform in Germany
Interactions between care-giving and paid work hours among European midlife women, 1994 to 1996
This paper uses data from the European Community Household Panel surveys of 1994 and 1996 to study the association between changes in care-giving and changes in weekly work hours. Our sample comprises women aged 45–59 years who participated in the labour force in at least one of the two years studied. Controlling for country variation, we find significant relationships between starting or increasing informal care-giving and changes in weekly work…
Barefoot and in a German kitchen
Parental socio-economic status and childcare quality
Kinderbetreuung und Fertilität in Deutschland / Child Care and Fertility in Germany
Eine zentrale Rolle in der Diskussion um eine bessere Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf spielt die Versorgung mit bedarfsgerechter Kinderbetreuung. Eine umfassendes Angebot an Betreuungsplätzen fördert jedoch nicht nur die Müttererwerbstätigkeit, sondern könnte sich auch positiv auf Fertilitätsentscheidungen auswirken. Im vorliegenden Beitrag untersuchen wir auf Basis von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) und der amtlichen Kinder- und…
Early Childhood Education Activities and Care Arrangements of Disadvantaged Children in Germany
Children’s school placement in Germany
Das Bildungswesen in Deutschland
Das Werk biete einen aktuellen und umfassenden Überblick des Bildungswesens in Deutschland über die gesamte Lebensspanne hinweg: von der frühen Bildung, Betreuung und Erziehung, über die allgemeinbildende und berufliche Schule, die Hochschule und Weiterbildung bis zur Bildung im Erwachsenenalter. Die bewertende Reflexion über Herausforderungen und Strategien soll Bildungspotenziale - für die Einzelnen wie für die Gesellschaft - besser nutzbar mac…
A new data infrastructure for family research and demographic analysis
This data brief introduces the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA; https://www.freda-panel.de/), a longitudinal, multi-actor database for family research. Major substantive fields addressed in the questionnaire include fertility-related attitudes and behaviours, reproductive health, work-family conflict, couples' division of labour, gender roles, intimate relationships, separation and divorce, parenting and intergenerational relations, a…
Should Mama or Papa Work? Variations in Attitudes towards Parental Employment by Country of Origin and Child Age
Employment among mothers has been rising in recent decades, although mothers of young children often work fewer hours than other women do. Parallel to this trend, approval of maternal employment has increased, albeit not evenly across groups. However, differences in attitudes remain unexplored despite their importance for better understanding mothers’ labour market behaviour. Meanwhile, the employment of fathers has remained stable and attitudes …
Care of Children in a Low Fertility Setting
Because it may affect a nation's fertility, child care policy is an important policy instrument for low-fertility countries. Designing an effective policy requires an understanding of the determinants of demand for child care. This study uses a descriptive statistical approach to analyze the dynamics of demand for child care for pre-school children in Germany. Age-specific and duration-specific hazard rates for leaving home care and for leaving m…
Parental Leave Policies, Usage Consequences, and Changing Normative Beliefs
In this study, we conceptualize and provide novel empirical evidence on norm-setting effects of family policies by investigating how priming with parental leave policy-related information may alter normative beliefs regarding the gender division of parental leave in Germany. We implemented a survey experiment in two waves of the representative German GESIS Panel in 2019 and 2020. Respondents received one of three short evidence-based information …
Crowded‐out? Changes in informal childcare during the expansion of formal services in Germany
Informal childcare care by grandparents, other relatives or friends is an important source of support in many Western countries, including Germany. Yet the role of this type of care is often overlooked in accounts of social policies supporting families with children, which tend to focus on formal childcare. This article examines whether the large formal childcare expansion occurring in Germany in the last two decades has been accompanied by simil…
Day care availability and awareness of gendered economic risks
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 family care. This study conceptualises and empirically investigates how priming respondents with brief media report-like information on existing day care policy entitlements and economic consequences of maternal employment interruptions may change personal normative ju…
The intergenerational transmission of gender norms-why and how adolescent males with working mothers matter for female labour market outcomes
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, results suggest that women with partners who gre…
Maternal Life Satisfaction and Child Outcomes
Barefoot and in a German kitchen
How perceived daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment
Not only the quantity of formal daycare provision for young children, but also its quality has become an issue of political concern. This experimental study investigates how a hypothetical improvement in the perceived quality of daycare facilities shapes normative judgements regarding daycare use and working hours for parents with young children in Germany. The analysis is framed with theoretical concepts of ideals and accommodations of childcare…
Does the Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care Centers Mitigate the Risk of Externalizing Problems? A Genetic-Sensitive Study of Preschoolers in Germany
This paper examines the extent to which quality characteristics of early childhood education and care (ECEC) experienced at ages 4–6 influence externalizing problems at ages 6–8. Based on a random sample of 713 same-sex twins (55% female, 41% with a migration background) in 364 ECEC centers in Germany, the paper not only distinguishes between detailed ECEC quality characteristics but additionally investigates whether these characteristics affect …
The Impact of Child and Maternal Health Indicators on Female Labor Force Participation after Childbirth
This paper analyzes the influence of child health and maternal physical and mental health on female labor force participation after childbirth in Germany. Our analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which enables us to measure child health based on the occurrence of severe health problems including mental and physical disabilities, hospitalizations, and preterm births. Since child health is measured in SOEP at…
Barefoot and in a German kitchen
Barefoot and in a German kitchen
Care of Children in a Low Fertility Setting
Because it may affect a nation's fertility, child care policy is an important policy instrument for low-fertility countries. Designing an effective policy requires an understanding of the determinants of demand for child care. This study uses a descriptive statistical approach to analyze the dynamics of demand for child care for pre-school children in Germany. Age-specific and duration-specific hazard rates for leaving home care and for leaving m…
Children’s school placement in Germany
Interactions between care-giving and paid work hours among European midlife women, 1994 to 1996
This paper uses data from the European Community Household Panel surveys of 1994 and 1996 to study the association between changes in care-giving and changes in weekly work hours. Our sample comprises women aged 45–59 years who participated in the labour force in at least one of the two years studied. Controlling for country variation, we find significant relationships between starting or increasing informal care-giving and changes in weekly work…
Betwixt and Between’
Late-coming involves benefits as well as costs. As one of the latest surfers on the‘Third Wave of Democratisation’ South Africa can draw on a much more supportive international environment as it struggles towards democratic consolidation than most of its post-colonial predecessors. At the same time, it is faced with a shift towards an ever-growing diminution of the roles of the state, as liberalisation, deregulation and privatisation become the t…
Kinderbetreuung und Fertilität in Deutschland / Child Care and Fertility in Germany
Eine zentrale Rolle in der Diskussion um eine bessere Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf spielt die Versorgung mit bedarfsgerechter Kinderbetreuung. Eine umfassendes Angebot an Betreuungsplätzen fördert jedoch nicht nur die Müttererwerbstätigkeit, sondern könnte sich auch positiv auf Fertilitätsentscheidungen auswirken. Im vorliegenden Beitrag untersuchen wir auf Basis von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) und der amtlichen Kinder- und…
Wem gehört die Familie der Zukunft
Die verhaltenswissenschaftliche Weiterentwicklung des Erhebungsprogramms des Soep
Haushaltspanels wurden weltweit vorwiegend zu dem Zweck begonnen, die Dynamik der Einkommensverteilung und -armut abzubilden; die erste Panelstudie, die 1968 begonnene PSID, führt diesen Aspekt sogar im Namen: Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Entsprechend liegen sehr viele Veröffentlichungen auf der Basis von Haushaltspanels vor, die primär auf Stabilität wie Veränderungen in Aggregatindikatoren der Einkommensungleichheit einer Gesamtbevölkerung (…
Democracy and Party Systems in Developing Countries
Introduction 1. One-Party-Dominance in Changing Societies: Conceptual, Methodological and Theoretical Aspects of the Study 2. The Regional Context 3. The 'Achievement' of One-Party-Dominance in India and South Africa: Actors, Structures and Institutions 4. Maintenance of One-Party-Dominance in India and South Africa: Mechanisms of Control and Competition 5. Effects and Functions of One-Party-Dominance in India and South Africa 6. Comparison and C…
Obesity and skill attainment in early childhood
The Parental Leave Benefit Reform in Germany
The Impact of Child and Maternal Health Indicators on Female Labor Force Participation after Childbirth
This paper analyzes the influence of child health and maternal physical and mental health on female labor force participation after childbirth in Germany. Our analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which enables us to measure child health based on the occurrence of severe health problems including mental and physical disabilities, hospitalizations, and preterm births. Since child health is measured in SOEP at…
Does distance determine who attends a university in Germany?
Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf – wie wirksam sind deutsche ,,Care Policies“?
The objective of making it easier for parents to successfully balance career and family has recently taken on heightened importance for German family policy. In the last few years, reforms have been implemented in German care policies. In this contribution, we systematically review and evaluate German care policies before and after the implementation of these reforms. We start by discussing international research and then explore German evaluatio…
The intergenerational transmission of health in early childhood—Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study
Maternal Life Satisfaction and Child Outcomes
Bildungsökonomische Perspektiven frühkindlicher Bildungsforschung
Early Childhood Education Activities and Care Arrangements of Disadvantaged Children in Germany
Spite and cognitive skills in preschoolers
Other-regarding preferences in adults have been examined in depth in the literature. Research has shown that spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation. However, there is little evidence of the factors explaining spiteful behavior in children. We investigate the relationship between children’s cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214 preschoolers aged 5–6 and their mothers. Here, …
Veränderungen in der gruppenspezifischen Nutzung von ganztägigen Schulangeboten - Längsschnittanalysen für den Primarbereich
Early Childhood Education and Care Services and Child Development
This essay analyses universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) services from an economic perspective focusing on universal ECEC approaches. First, it examines the effectiveness of ECEC expansions, reviewing research using quasi‐experimental approaches. It then discusses the possible mechanisms underlying the measured effects. These are related to both direct effects from ECEC services on children and indirect ones occurring via maternal …
Parental socio-economic status and childcare quality
Das Bildungswesen in Deutschland
Das Werk biete einen aktuellen und umfassenden Überblick des Bildungswesens in Deutschland über die gesamte Lebensspanne hinweg: von der frühen Bildung, Betreuung und Erziehung, über die allgemeinbildende und berufliche Schule, die Hochschule und Weiterbildung bis zur Bildung im Erwachsenenalter. Die bewertende Reflexion über Herausforderungen und Strategien soll Bildungspotenziale - für die Einzelnen wie für die Gesellschaft - besser nutzbar mac…
Pädagogische Konzeptionen von Kindertageseinrichtungen – Deskription eines pädagogischen Instruments
Sowohl die Praxisliteratur zum Einrichtungsmanagement als auch der Gesetzgeber sehen pädagogische Konzeptionen als ein probates Mittel zur Steuerung der Qualität von Kindertageseinrichtungen. Die vorliegende Studie untersuchte 583 Kita-Konzeptionen von Einrichtungen aus ganz Deutschland mithilfe eines neu entwickelten Codierschemas und quantitativen Analysemethoden. Im Zentrum stehen zwei Fragen: erstens inwiefern Qualitätsmerkmale in den Dokumen…
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