Parents under stress: Evaluating emergency childcare policies during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany.

Autor/inn/en	Schüller, Simone; Steinberg, Hannah S.
Titel	Parents under stress: Evaluating emergency childcare policies during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Eltern unter Stress: Bewertung von Maßnahmen zur Kinderbetreuung in Notfällen während des ersten COVID-19-Lockdowns in Deutschland.
Quelle	In: Labour economics, (2022) 78, 19 S. PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0927-5371
DOI	10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102217
Schlagwörter	Soziale Situation; Abweichendes Verhalten; Psychischer Faktor; Zufriedenheit; Familie; Mutter; Vater; Eltern; Kinderbetreuung; Kindertagesstätte; Schule; Stress; Kindererziehung; Gesundheitszustand; Pandemie; Betriebsstilllegung; Ausgeübter Beruf; Beruf; Auswirkung; Krisenmanagement; Zugangsvoraussetzung; Deutschland
Abstract	"What are the effects of school and daycare facility closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on parental well-being and parenting behavior? Can emergency childcare policies during a pandemic mitigate increases in parental stress and negative parenting behavior? To answer these questions, this study leverages cross-state variation in emergency childcare eligibility rules during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany and draws on unique data from the 2019 and 2020 waves of the German AID:A family panel. Employing a triple-differences approach we identify short- to medium-term intention-to-treat effects and find that while emergency care policies did not considerably affect parents' life satisfaction, partnership satisfaction or mental health, they have been effective in diminishing harsh parenting behavior. We find partly gendered effects, specifically on paternal parenting behavior. Our results suggest that decreasing parental well-being likely constitutes a general effect of the pandemic, whereas the observed increase in negative and potentially harmful parenting behavior is largely directly caused by school and daycare facility closures." The study refers to the period 2019-2020 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2025/3