2019
DOI: 10.31124/advance.9958760
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Deciding on the timing of early public childcare in Germany. An application of rational choice theory.

Abstract: This study investigates some of the mechanisms, which lead to social inequalities in the usage of early childhood education and care (ECEC) by focusing on a recent period of public childcare expansion in Germany. Based on sociological rational educational decision models, we model the decision to use ECEC as a rational cost-benefit investment strategy, which simultaneously affects the human capital of mothers and children. We test our assumptions with data from the new-born cohort of the German National Educat… Show more

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