Expansion of Full-Day Childcare and Subjective Well-Being of Mothers
Interdependencies with Culture and Resources
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2236005 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Pia S Schober (0000-0003-1953-1197, German Institute for Economic Research, autor de correspondencia), Juliane F Stahl (German Institute for Economic Research) |
| Año | 2016 |
| Volumen | 32 |
| Número | 5 |
| Páginas | 593-606 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2016-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | European Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0266-7215 • E-ISSN: 1468-2672 |
| Editorial | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/esr/jcw006 |
| OpenAlex | W2292876143 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 20 |
| Referencias citadas | 18 |
This study investigates whether an expansion of state-subsidized full-day childcare may improve the subjective well-being of mothers of children under school age by acting as a boundary-spanning resource to facilitate the combination of employment and childcare responsibilities. It extends previous studies that showed contradictory results by demonstrating that the relationship with parental subjective well-being may vary by local work-care culture and family resources. To this effect, we compare mothers in East and West Germany and mothers with and without a partner in the household, respectively. The empirical analysis links individual-level data from the Socio-Economic Panel for 2007 to 2012 and from the ‘Families in Germany’ Study for 2010 to 2012 with administrative records on day-care provision at the county level. We apply fixed-effects panel models to samples of 3,203 families with a youngest child under school age. Our results show that greater provision of full-day care is modestly positively associated with satisfaction with family life and with life overall among partnered mothers in East Germany but not in West Germany. The level of full-day care availability in a county and take-up of full-day childcare, however, moderate the relationship of maternal transitions to long part-time or full-time employment with satisfaction with family life in West Germany. In both East and West Germany, switching to full-day care for the youngest child is more positively associated with satisfaction with family life for lone mothers than for partnered mothers.
Child care · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Full-time · Interdependence · Life satisfaction · Panel data · Political science · Sociology · Subsidy · Demography · Early Childhood Education and Development · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social and Demographic Issues in Germany · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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| Obras citantes distintas | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 2,22 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 19 |