Study Schober & Stahl (2016): study DE 2007
- Public
- Mothers with <6 aged children, Germany, followed 5 years 2007 - 2012
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP combined waves
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 3203
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- County full day care rate
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Data: Youth Welfare Office Daycare was expanded in West Germany in these years to the level that existed already in East Germany.
- Distribution
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M = 20.93, SD = 20.61 (partnered mothers per weekday)
M = 31.20, SD = 23.33 (single mothers) - Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- % children in county in daycare for >7 hours per weekday
Observed Relation with Happiness
Differences between single and partnered mothers are 0 both in East and in West Germany.
b-fix controlled for CHANGE in:
- employment status of mother
- care by relatives
- fathers self-reported childcare & housework hours
- mothers health status
- age youngest child
- county-level unemployment rates & public expenditures per capita
- moved between counties
- county border reform