Study Schober & Schmitt (2017): study DE 2007
- Public
- Parents, partnered and single, Germany, 2007 - 2012
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 2378
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Rate of day-care children under 3 years in county
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- After World War 2 Germany was divided into West (BRD) and East (DDR) Germany. West Germany was oriented on the Western world while East Germany was part of the Russian dominated communist world of these days. Germany was reunited in 1989/1990.
- Distribution
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West Germany: M = 14.99 (6.16)
East Germany: M = 45.69 (7.96) - Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Percentage of children under 3 years attending day-care institutions in county
Observed Relation with Happiness
b-fix controlled for:
- mother in education
- mother unemployed
- childcare support from relatives
- childcare and housework hours of fathers
- fathers’ employment status
- ln of household income
- maternal health
- marital status
- age of youngest child
- number of children
- county unemployment rate
- county expenditure per capita
- dummy of missing county expenditure
- year dummies and dummies for county border reform
- moving between counties