Study Sandner (2013): study DE 2006
- Public
- Participants in a support program for disadvantaged first-time mothers, followed from pregnancy until 2 years after birth of first child, Germany, 2006-2009
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 755
- Non Response
- > 50%
- Assessment
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Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
Biannual telephone interviews with the mothers are used as the main data source to examine the impact of Pro Kind on maternal life course
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Pro Kind Family Policy
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Home visits by midwives, nurses of social pedagogues. Average family got 45 visits of average 82 minutes. Major aims were to improve - economic self-ufficiency - family planning - finishing education - finding a job
- Distribution
- N = 1: 237, 0: 195
- Operationalization
- 1: Participants in Pro Kind program
0: Controls
Observed Relation with Happiness
Controls M = 7,13 SD = 2,10
- difference +0,31 -0,19
- community fixed effects
- age of the treatment child
Controls M = 3,66 SD = 0,90
- difference +0,10 -0,02
- community fixed effects
- age of the treatment child
Happiness assessed in 28th month after birth of first child
Next to this positive efect on happiness the program resulted in higher fertility and had no effect on maternal employment, school attendance and child-care use.