Myrskyla & Margolis (2013): study DE 2003
Publication
- Author(s):
- Myrskyla, M.; Margolis, R.
- Title:
- Parental Benefits Improve Parental Well-being: Evidence from a 2007 Policy Change in Germany.
- Source:
- MPIDR WORKING PAPER, 2013, No. 10, 1 - 38, Rostock, Germany
Investigation
- Public
- New parents, Germany,before and after policy change, 2003-2005 or 2008-2010
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP
- Sample
- Selection from general population sample
- Respondents
- N = 1113
- Non Response
- 410
- 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
- Remarks:
- Last interview Mean and SD
- Page in publication:
- 12
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.21 -
- SD:
- 1.66 -
Correlational Findings
Socio-economic treatment
Change happiness following events
Effect of change in family policy
Time since first child