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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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Abstract

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
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Ates, Merih UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
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
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language GRANDMOTHERS RAISING GRANDCHILDREN; DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS; CAREGIVING GRANDPARENTS; IMPACT; STRESS; EUROPE; FAMILY; RETIREMENT; GERMANY; TAIWAN Multiple languages Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Social Sciences, Biomedical Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/21598