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The Impact of Domestic Child Care on School Performance
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 123 (2003), Iss. 1 : pp. 189–197
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Hufnagel, Rainer
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The German Socio-Economic Panel asks respondents every year how much time they spend on child care. The time devoted to children in the past can thus be reconstructed and used as a variable for explaining children’s success in primary school. Parents’ education and some socio-economic features are used as further explanatory variables. Parents’ education and the time mothers spent on child care have a significantly positive effect on primary school results. Implications are discussed in a framework given by the New Political Economy.