C Katharina Spiess

Biographic Data

ID5737461
NAMEC Katharina Spiess
GIVEN NAMESC Katharina
FAMILY NAMESpiess
SIGNATURESPIESS C K
AFFILIATIONSGerman Institute for Economic Research
ORCID0009-0000-5932-7022
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS171
AUTHOR COUNT42
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7

  • Maternal Life Satisfaction and Child Development from Toddlerhood to Adolescence

    Open AccessNabanita Datta Gupta, Jonas Jessen et al.ARTICLEReview of Economics of the…2026

    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

    Open AccessHeike Trappe, Roland Rau et al.ARTICLEComparative Population Studies2025

    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

    Open AccessMarie-Fleur Philipp, Silke Büchau et al.ARTICLEEuropean Sociological Review2025Cited by: 1References: 35

    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

    Open AccessKarsten Hank, Tobias Gummer et al.ARTICLEEuropean Sociological Review2025Cited by: 6References: 48

    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

    Open AccessBastian Mönkediek, Pia S Schober et al.ARTICLEKZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für…2024Cited by: 1References: 54

    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

    Open AccessLudovica Gambaro, Clara Schäper et al.ARTICLESocial Policy and Administration2024Cited by: 2References: 4

    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

    Open AccessFrauke Peters, Pia S Schober et al.ARTICLEEuropean Sociological Review2024References: 55

    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

    Open AccessAndreas Leibing, Frauke Peters et al.ARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2023

  • Day care availability and awareness of gendered economic risks

    Open AccessSilke Büchau, Marie-Fleur Philipp et al.ARTICLEJournal of European Social Policy2023Cited by: 2References: 10

    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

    Open AccessLudovica Gambaro, C Katharina Spie et al.ARTICLEComparative Population Studies2023Cited by: 6References: 8

    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

    Open AccessFrans Willekens, Katrin Schiefer et al.ARTICLEComparative Population Studies2023

    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

    Open AccessMarie-Fleur Philipp, Silke Büchau et al.ARTICLEGender & Society2023Cited by: 4References: 44

    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

    Open AccessJan Berkes, Frauke Peters et al.ARTICLEEconomica2022References: 30

    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

    Open AccessSophia Schmitz, C Katharina Spie et al.ARTICLESocio-Economic Review2022Cited by: 2References: 41

    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

    Open AccessMathias Huebener, Sevrin Waights et al.ARTICLEReview of Economics of the…2021

    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

    Open AccessMara Barschkett, Berthold Koletzko et al.ARTICLEChildren2021

    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

    Open AccessMathias Huebener, C Katharina Spie et al.ARTICLEZeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft2021References: 1

  • Pädagogische Konzeptionen von Kindertageseinrichtungen – Deskription eines pädagogischen Instruments

    Open AccessSusanne Kuger, B Becker et al.ARTICLEZeitschrift für Erziehungswissensch…2020

    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

    Open AccessC Katharina SpiessARTICLESozialer Fortschritt2020

    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

    Open AccessMartin Bujard, Claudia Diehl et al.ARTICLESozialer Fortschritt2020

    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

    C Katharina Spie, Olaf Köller et al.ARTICLEDas Bildungswesen in Deutschland2019Cited by: 7

    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

    Open AccessC Katharina SpiessOTHEREmerging Trends in the Social and…2017

    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

    Open AccessJuliane F Stahl, Pia S Schober et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2017Cited by: 18References: 10

  • Veränderungen in der gruppenspezifischen Nutzung von ganztägigen Schulangeboten - Längsschnittanalysen für den Primarbereich

    Open AccessJan Marcus, Janina Nemitz et al.ARTICLEZeitschrift für Erziehungswissensch…2016

  • Spite and cognitive skills in preschoolers

    Open AccessElisabeth Bügelmayer, C Katharina Spie et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Psychology2014References: 38

    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, …