Determinants of child care participation.

Autor/inn/en	Coneus, Katja; Goeggel, Kathrin; Muehler, Grit
Institution	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung / Projektgruppe Das Sozio-Ökonomische Panel
Titel	Determinants of child care participation. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Determinanten der Inanspruchnahme von Kinderbetreuung.
Quelle	Berlin: German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (2007), 17 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research. 72/2007
Beigaben	Tabellen 4; grafische Darstellungen 4; Formeln
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
ISSN	1864-6689
Schlagwörter	Entscheidung; Familie; Mutter; Kind; Kindertagesstätte; Partizipation; Erwerbstätigkeit; Beruf; Berufstätigkeit; Arbeitszeit; Betreuung; Deutschland
Abstract	"When estimating the determinants of child care participation, the simultaneity in mothers' decision to work and in the decision to use child care is a major challenge. In this study, we provide evidence on the determinants of institutional child care use accounting for the endogeneity of mothers' labor supply by applying an instrumental variables approach. This endogeneity has been neglected in studies on this issue so far, even though the decision to use child care outside the home is strongly connected to mothers' decision to work after childbirth and vice versa. Based on the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP) from 1989{2006 we show that children living in Western Germany have a higher probability to attend institutional care if their mothers increase their actual weekly working time. Estimating the determining factors of child care participation without correcting for simultaneity underestimates the influence of maternal working time by more than a half." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2008/3