Parental Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 in Germany.

Autor/inn/en	Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina; Siegel, Nico A.; Wagner, Gert G.
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Parental Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 in Germany.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2020), 40 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA Discussion Paper. 13556
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bildungssoziologie; Individualität; Wohlbefinden; Eltern; Schulschließung; Schüler; Arbeitsmarkt; Heimarbeit; Deutschland
Abstract	The authers examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. They specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive exogenous shock" to family life. They make use of a novel representative survey of parental well-being collected in May and June 2020 in Germany, when schools and day care centers were closed but while other measures had been relaxed and new infections were low. In this descriptive analysis, the authers compare well-being during this period with a pre-crisis period for different groups. In a difference-in-differences design, they compare the change for individuals with children to the change for individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. They find that the crisis lowered the relative well-being of individuals with children, especially for individuals with young children, for women, and for persons with lower secondary schooling qualifications. The results suggest that public policy measures taken to contain Covid-19 can have large effects on family well-being, with implications for child development and parental labor market outcomes. (Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2021/2