Podcasts and press
Media
Podcasts and press coverage on childcare and school place allocation, food donations and market design.
Podcasts
The Missing Middle
Game Changer, the podcast by TWS Partners, May 2026. Why childcare allocation in Germany is still mostly uncoordinated despite well-understood theory, and what municipalities need to run matching procedures.
How are school places allocated?
ZEW podcast, September 2026, in German. On early tracking and what academic-track schools do for children from less privileged families, with secondary school pupils from Mannheim.
On Your Spots, Get Set, Go?
ZEW podcast. How KitaMatch allocates childcare places faster and more fairly.
Press
Coverage is in German.
School choice
- MDR Wissen, February 2026
- Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 2026, on early tracking
- Frankfurter Rundschau, October 2023
- Table.Media, October 2023
Childcare allocation
- Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 2023
- Tagesspiegel Background, August 2023
- WirtschaftsWoche, December 2021
- Die Zeit, February 2021
- WirtschaftsWoche, January 2020
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 2019
- Die Rheinpfalz, October 2018
- Westfälische Nachrichten, March 2018
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 2017
Food donations
- Mannheimer Morgen, August 2023
- Mannheimer Morgen, August 2023
- Mannheimer Morgen, August 2023 (comment)
- dpa report, July 2023, carried by Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Welt, Focus and Stern
- Welt am Sonntag, June 2018
For journalists
Interview and background requests: [email protected]. A portrait photo is available here.
