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Correlational findings

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
Mothers' employment status
Our Classification
Distribution
Mother full-time:         M = 9.15
Mother part-time:        M = 31.54
Mother not employed: M = 51.44
Mother unemployed:  M = 6.44
Operationalization
1: Mother employed
    a: Mother part-time employed
    b: Mother full-time employed
0: Mother not employed (reference)

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-cd b-fix = +.04 ns Mother part-time employed (vs not employed) O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-cd b-fix = +.32 ns Mother full-time employed (vs not employed)

b-fix controlled for:
- Characteristics of respondent
  - mother in education
  - 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
- Characterstics of country
  - county unemployment rate
  - county expenditure per capita
  - dummy of missing county expenditure
  - year dummies and dummies for county border
    reform
  - moving between counties