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
- Use of day care
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
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No day-care used: 69.78%
Day-care used half-day: 10.86%
Day-care used more than half-day: 19.36% - Operationalization
- 1: Day care used
a: Usage of half-day care (<5 hours)
b: Usage of more than half-day care
0: No day-care used (Reference)
Observed Relation with Happiness
b-fix controlled for:
- Characteristics of respondents
- 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
- Characteristics 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