Fig. 1

Source: DJI-RKI (2020); own calculations. Note: Utilized daycare capacity represents the share of children who are currently attending daycare among those children who were registered in daycare by March 2020. DJI-RKI (2020) reports these shares weekly by federal state based on communications of the respective federal state ministries; we subsequently aggregate those shares to the national level. We define the timing of transition from emergency childcare to extended emergency childcare and from extended emergency childcare to the phase of (restricted) normal operation as the week where more than five observed federal states switch status, based on information from DJI-RKI (2020, Table 1)