Study Kühn (2018): study DE 1984
- Public
- Mothers, Germany, followed 1984 - 2011
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 2006
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Duration of lone motherhood
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
- 3 years before to up to 9 years after separation
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Happiness in the years before and after transition into lone motherhood
Observed Relation with Happiness
Drop of happiness of about 1,5 point in 3 years before transition to single motherhood, followed by a gradual rise of 0,3 points in the next 9 years.
- being a lone mother or not
- separated or not
- duration of lone motherhood squared
- mothers' age
Similar across age categories of single mothers