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Studies

Heisig & Zierow (2019): study DE 2000

Publication

Author(s):
Heisig, K.; Zierow, L.
Title:
The Baby Year Parental Leave Reform in the GDR and Its Impact on Children’s Long-Term Life Satisfaction
Source:
Working Paper, Nr. 7806, Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research - CESifo GMBH, Munic, Germany

Investigation

Public
18-36 aged in Germany 2000-2016, born in former East Germany before and after extension of maternity leave in 1986
Survey name
DE-SOEP
Sample
Selection from general population sample
Respondents
N = 1112
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question:

Taking all things together, how satisfied are you with your life these days? Please answer with the help of this scale. For instance, when you are totally satisfied with your life, please tick '10'. When you are totally unsatisfied with your life, please tick '0'. You may use all values in between to indicate that you are neither totally satisfied nor totally unsatisfied."
10 totally satisfied
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0  totally unsatisfied
Classification:
O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-d
Author's label:
Life Satisfaction
Page in publication:
16
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.14 7.15
SD:
1.67 1.67

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Baby year reform