Child Care Choices in Western Germany Also Correlated with Mother's Personality

The expansion of formal child care, particularly for children under the age of three, has resulted in more and more children from this age group attending day care facilities. This formal child care setting is frequently combined with care provided by grandparents or other individuals. The combination and number of child care settings made use of is influenced by a variety of socio-economic factors and the range of options available. Maternal personality can also explain differences in child care choices, if only to a relatively limited extent and predominantly in families residing in western Germany. Analyses based on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) show that mothers in western Germany who are very open to new experiences are more likely to combine the use of formal with informal child care. Mothers, who classify themselves as conscientious, in line with personality research, are less likely to use this setting as the sole additional type of child care alongside parental care. The analyses emphasize just how different parental preferences are. A policy that is focused on freedom of choice and on creating the conditions for this by expanding the child care infrastructure should take these differences into account.Child care, personality factors, maternal employment

Child care choices in Western Germany also correlated with mother's personality

The expansion of formal child care, particularly for children under the age of three, has resulted in more and more children from this age group attending day care facilities. This formal child care setting is frequently combined with care provided by grandparents or other individuals. The combination and number of child care settings made use of is influenced by a variety of socio-economic factors and the range of options available. Maternal personality can also explain differences in child care choices, if only to a relatively limited extent and predominantly in families residing in western Germany. Analyses based on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) show that mothers in western Germany who are very open to new experiences are more likely to combine the use of formal with informal child care. Mothers, who classify themselves as conscientious, in line with personality research, are less likely to use this setting as the sole additional type of child care alongside parental care. The analyses emphasize just how different parental preferences are. A policy that is focused on freedom of choice and on creating the conditions for this by expanding the child care infrastructure should take these differences into account

Forvaltningens organisering og mediernes placering af det politiske ansvar

Under what conditions and to what extent is a minister attributed responsibility in the media when things go wrong within an agency or an enterprise that belongs to the jurisdiction of the minister’s department? This question about delegation and responsibility is important, but has never been subject to systematic empirical analysis. Based on a coding of more than 5,000 Danish national newspaper articles about the Danish national railway company (DSB) from 1995 to 2007, this paper examines the role of the minister of transportation more closely.

Politik og produktivitet. En diskussion af Produktivitetskommissionens anbefalinger

I skrivende stund har Produktivitetskommissionen offentliggjort seks delrapporter, mere end ti baggrundsrapporter og en række baggrundsnotater. Læg dertil adskillige debatpublikationer, kronikker, afholdelse af debatarrangementer, m.v. Det er ganske enkelt imponerende, hvad kommissionen har nået, siden den blev nedsat for mindre end to år siden

Wahl der Kinderbetreuung hängt in Westdeutschland auch mit der Persönlichkeit der Mütter zusammen

Mit dem Ausbau der außerhäuslichen Betreuungsangebote, insbesondere für Kinder unter drei Jahren, nutzen immer mehr Kinder dieser Altersgruppe Kindertageseinrichtungen. Diese formelle Betreuung wird häufig mit der Betreuung durch Großeltern oder andere Personen kombiniert. Welche Betreuungskombinationen und wie viele genutzt werden, hängt mit einer Vielzahl von sozioökonomischen Merkmalen und dem Angebot zusammen. Die Persönlichkeit der Mutter kann darüber hinaus Unterschiede in der Betreuungswahl erklären - wenn auch nur einen relativ geringen Anteil und vorrangig bei Familien, die in Westdeutschland leben. Analysen auf der Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) haben für Westdeutschland gezeigt, dass Mütter, die sehr offen für Neues sind, eher die Nutzung einer Kindertageseinrichtung mit Formen informeller Betreuung kombinieren. Mütter, die sich im Sinne der Persönlichkeitsforschung als gewissenhaft einstufen, nutzen diese Angebote seltener als alleinige Betreuungsform neben der elterlichen Betreuung. Die Analysen zeigen einmal mehr, wie unterschiedlich die Präferenzen von Eltern sind. Eine Politik, die auf Wahlfreiheit setzt und durch einen Ausbau der Betreuungsinfrastruktur die Voraussetzungen dafür schafft, kann diesen Unterschieden gerecht werden.Child care, personality factors, maternal employment

Designing mixed metal halide ammines for ammonia storage using density functional theory and genetic algorithms

New superior ammonia storage materials are suggested from computational screening. Global optimum of 27 000 mixtures identified testing only ∼1.5% of the candidates, proving the success of the genetic algorithm.</p