TY  - RPRT
A1  - Amann, Erwin
A1  - Rzepka, Sylvi
T1  - The Effect of Goal-Setting Prompts in a Blended Learning Environment
BT  - Evidence from a Field Experiment
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - We investigate how inviting students to set task-based goals affects usage of an online learning platform and course performance. We design and implement a randomized field experiment in a large mandatory economics course with blended learning elements. The low-cost treatment induces students to use the online learning system more often, more intensively, and to begin earlier with exam preparation. Treated students perform better in the course than the control group: they are 18.8% (0.20 SD) more likely to pass the exam and earn 6.7% (0.19 SD) more points on the exam. There is no evidence that treated students spend significantly more time, rather they tend to shift to more productive learning methods. The heterogeneity analysis suggests that higher treatment effects are associated with higher levels of behavioral bias but also with poor early course behavior.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 25 
KW  - natural field experiment
KW  - blended learning
KW  - behavioral economics
KW  - goal-setting
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-493476
SN  - 2628-653X
N1  - The trial is registered in the AEA RCT registry, RCT ID AEARCTR-28790 (https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.2928-1.0).
IS  - 25
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Müller, Kai-Uwe
A1  - Wrohlich, Katharina
T1  - Does subsidized care for toddlers increase maternal labor supply?
BT  - Evidence from a large-scale expansion of early childcare
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - Expanding public or publicly subsidized childcare has been a top social policy priority in many industrialized countries. It is supposed to increase fertility, promote children’s development and enhance mothers’ labor market attachment. In this paper, we analyze the causal effect of one of the largest expansions of subsidized childcare for children up to three years among industrialized countries on the employment of mothers in Germany. Identification is based on spatial and temporal variation in the expansion of publicly subsidized childcare triggered by two comprehensive childcare policy reforms. The empirical analysis is based on the German Microcensus that is matched to county level data on childcare availability. Based on our preferred specification which includes time and county fixed effects we find that an increase in childcare slots by one percentage point increases mothers’ labor market participation rate by 0.2 percentage points. The overall increase in employment is explained by the rise in part-time employment with relatively long hours (20-35 hours per week). We do not find a change in full-time employment or lower part-time employment that is causally related to the childcare expansion. The effect is almost entirely driven by mothers with medium-level qualifications. Mothers with low education levels do not profit from this reform calling for a stronger policy focus on particularly disadvantaged groups in coming years.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 9 
KW  - childcare provision
KW  - mother’s labor supply
KW  - generalized difference-in-difference
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-427727
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 9
ER  -