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
Effect of child care support
Mother had long maternity leave
Working mother