Does grandchild care influence grandparents’ self-rated health? Evidence from a fixed effects approach
Copyright policy )Does grandchild care influence grandparents’ self-rated health? Evidence from a fixed effects approach
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.
- University of Cologne Germany
Adult, Aged, 80 and over, Male, Aging, Infant, Middle Aged, Grandparents, Child, Preschool, Germany, Intergenerational Relations, Surveys and Questionnaires, Workforce, Humans, Female, Perception, Child Care, Aged
Adult, Aged, 80 and over, Male, Aging, Infant, Middle Aged, Grandparents, Child, Preschool, Germany, Intergenerational Relations, Surveys and Questionnaires, Workforce, Humans, Female, Perception, Child Care, Aged
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