Study Baker et al. (2008): study CA Quebec 1994
- Public
- 0-11 year old children of two-parent families, followed 9 years 1994-2003 before and after change in child care policy, Quebec, Canada.
- Survey name
- CA-NLSCY pooled waves
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 14555
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI)
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Child happiness (following change child care policy)
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Pre- policy change T11994-95, T2 1996-97 Post-policy change T4 2000-01 T5 2002-03
- Operationalization
- Quebec $5 a day childcare subsidy introduced in 1997
1: Eligible children (aged 0-4)
0: Non eligible children (aged 6-110
Observed Relation with Happiness
b-fix controled for:
- age and sexe of child
- parental characteristics
- age
- education
- ethinicity
- urban/rural living
- number of sibblings
- province in Canada
- year
b-fix denotes change in child happiness in Quebec relative to change in other provinces in Canada where no such policy changes took place in these years