Do family policy regimes matter for children's well-being?

Autor/inn/en	Engster, Daniel; Olofsdotter Stensöta, Helena
Titel	Do family policy regimes matter for children's well-being?
Quelle	In: Social politics, 18 (2011) 1, S. 81-124 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1072-4745; 1468-2893
DOI	10.1093/sp/jxr006
Schlagwörter	Bildungsbeteiligung; Erziehungsurlaub; Familienleistungsausgleich; Familienpolitik; Eltern; Kind; Kinderbetreuung; Schulleistung; Armut; Sterblichkeit; Steuerentlastung; Wohlfahrtsstaat; Investition; Öffentliche Ausgaben; Dual Career Couple; Internationaler Vergleich; Auswirkung; Typologie; Unterstützung; OECD (Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung); Individuum; Australien; Belgien; Deutschland; Dänemark; Finnland; Frankreich; Griechenland; Großbritannien; Irland; Italien; Kanada; Neuseeland; Niederlande; Norwegen; Portugal; Schweden; Schweiz; Spanien; USA; Österreich
Abstract	"Researchers have studied the impact of different welfare state regimes, and particularly family policy regimes, on gender equality. Very little research has been conducted, however, on the association between different family policy regimes and children's well-being. This article explores how the different family policy regimes of twenty OECD countries relate to children's well-being in the areas of child poverty, child mortality, and educational attainment and achievement. We focus specifically on three family policies: family cash and tax benefits, paid parenting leaves, and public child care support. Using panel data for the years 1995, 2000, and 2005, we test the association between these policies and child well-being while holding constant for a number of structural and policy variables. Our analysis shows that the dual-earner regimes, combining high levels of support for paid parenting leaves and public child care, are strongly associated with low levels of child poverty and child mortality. We find little long-term effect of family policies on educational achievement, but a significant positive correlation between high family policy support and higher educational attainment. We conclude that family policies have a significant impact on improving children's well-being, and that dual-earner regimes represent the best practice for promoting children's health and development." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Querschnitt; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1995 bis 2005. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2011/3