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Shared Parenting and Parents’ Income Evolution after Separation: New Explorative Insights from Germany

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  • Christina Boll
  • Simone Schüller

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Based on panel data from 1997 to 2018, we investigate the socioeconomic preconditions and economic consequences of ‘shared parenting (SP)’ forms in Germany. Referring to the post-separation year, we build SP groups from information on child residence and fathers’ childcare hours during a regular weekday. We explore the short-term gender and SP group associations with economic well-being as well as, for mothers only, its medium-term associations in the five years after separation. Our findings indicate that around separation, intense SP is a superior strategy in terms of equivalized household income. This also holds true for mothers in the medium-term, but their earnings barely improve during that time. Mothers stay highly involved in childcare even in shared parenting settings and/or fail to redirect released childcare time to the labor market. Our data support the notion that even high resources do not shield mothers against remaining trapped in economic dependence post-separation.

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  • Christina Boll & Simone Schüller, 2021. "Shared Parenting and Parents’ Income Evolution after Separation: New Explorative Insights from Germany," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 1131, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
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    Keywords

    union dissolution; shared parenting; childcare; child residence; household income; earnings; household composition; SOEP;
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    JEL classification:

    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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