Ates, Merih (2017). Does grandchild care influence grandparents' self-rated health? Evidence from a fixed effects approach. Soc. Sci. Med., 190. S. 67 - 75. OXFORD: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. ISSN 0277-9536
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The present study aims to identify, whether and how supplementary grandchild care is causally related to grandparents' self-rated health (SRH). Based on longitudinal data drawn from the German Aging Survey (DEAS; 2008-2014), I compare the results of pooled OLS, pooled OLS with lagged dependant variables (POLS-LD), random and fixed effects (RE, FE) panel regression. The results show that there is a positive but small association between supplementary grandchild care and SRH in POLS, POLS-LD, and RE models. However, the fixed effects model shows that the intrapersonal change in grandchild care does not cause a change in grandparents' SRH. The FE findings indicate that supplementary grandchild care in Germany does not have a causal impact on grandparents' SRH, suggesting that models with between variation components overestimate the influence of grandchild care on grandparents' health because they do not control for unobserved (time-constant) heterogeneity. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-215983 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.08.021 | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Soc. Sci. Med. | ||||||||
Volume: | 190 | ||||||||
Page Range: | S. 67 - 75 | ||||||||
Date: | 2017 | ||||||||
Publisher: | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | OXFORD | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0277-9536 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||
Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/21598 |
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