Public childcare provision and fertility behavior : a comparison of Sweden and Germany /

The author analyzes the relationship between the availability of public childcare for children under age three and the decision to have a first child. One would expect that providing women with the option of returning to work soon after childbirth would reduce the anticipated negative effects of hav...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Krapf, Sandra
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leverkusen, Germany : Budrich UniPress Ltd., 2014.
Subjects:
Child care services > Europe.
Child care services.
Babysitting.
Child care.
Garde des enfants > Europe.
Garde des enfants.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Work.
Child care
Babysitting
Europe.
Childcare
family planning
fertility
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Public Childcare Provision and Fertility Behavior. A Comparison of Sweden and Germany
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Theoretical considerations
  • 2.1 Welfare regimes, childcare, and fertility
  • 2.1.1 Esping-Andersenâ€?s three worlds of welfare capitalism
  • 2.1.2 Gendered welfare regimes
  • 2.1.3 Coherent family policies
  • 2.1.4 The opportunities and the limits of welfare regime typologies as analytical tools
  • 2.2 Childcare services and fertility behavior on the micro level
  • 2.2.1 The economic view: direct and indirect costs of children2.2.2 The sociological view: role compatibility and gender equality
  • 2.2.3 The opportunities and the limits of micro-level approaches
  • 2.3 Integrating fertility determinants and childcare policies: the Theory of Planned Behavior
  • 2.3.1 The Theory of Planned Behavior
  • 2.3.2 A model of childcare, attitudes, and childbearing
  • 2.3.3 How childcare interacts with attitudinal and institutional aspects
  • 2.3.4 Summary and research hypotheses
  • 3 Previous research on childcare, coherent policies, attitudes, and fertility behavior3.1 Empirical evidence: childcare and fertility
  • 3.1.1 Country level studies
  • 3.1.2 Individual level studies
  • 3.2 Empirical evidence: institutional settings and policy uptake
  • 3.3 Empirical evidence: attitudes and fertility behavior
  • 4 Fertility development and the institutional context in Sweden and Germany
  • 4.1 Fertility development
  • 4.2 Family policies in Sweden: dual-earner support
  • 4.3 Family policies in Germany: departure from male breadwinner support
  • 5 Excursus: Who uses public childcare? The policy context in Sweden and western Germany5.1 Coherent family policies and public childcare usage
  • 5.2 Prior research on the determinants of childcare usage
  • 5.3 Method and data
  • 5.4 Regression results
  • 5.5 Discussion
  • 6 How do attitudes and childcare availability affect fertility in Germany and Sweden?
  • 6.1 Method: multilevel discrete-time hazard model
  • 6.2 Case study: Germany
  • 6.2.1 Data and sample selection
  • 6.2.2 Dependent variable and data structure
  • 6.2.3 Childcare availability
  • 6.2.4 Attitudes toward children and family life6.2.5 Control variables
  • 6.2.6 How important is public childcare in the decision to have a child?
  • 6.2.7 Regression results
  • 6.3 Case study: Sweden
  • 6.3.1 Data and sample selection
  • 6.3.2 Dependent variable and data structure
  • 6.3.3 Childcare enrollment
  • 6.3.4 Attitudes toward family and career
  • 6.3.5 Control variables
  • 6.3.6 Regression results
  • 6.4 Summary of findings
  • 7 Conclusions
  • 7.1 Research contribution and key findings
  • 7.2 Critical reflections and research perspectives

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