Journal
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
Volume 80, Issue 4, Pages 1020-1039Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12486
Keywords
child care; employment; family policy; gender roles; longitudinal research; quantitative methodology
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- Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences
- German Research Foundation - DFG [GSC1024]
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This study investigates whether the expansion of public child care for children aged younger than 3years in Germany has been associated with individual-level change in gender ideologies. The authors develop and test a theoretical framework of the short-term impact of family policy institutions on ideology change. The analysis links the German Family Panel pairfam (2008 to 2015) with administrative records on county-level child-care provision for those aged younger than 3years and applies fixed effects panel models. The findings show that the child-care expansion has been associated with moderate changes toward less-traditional gender ideologies only among mothers in West Germany and mostly among mothers without a college degree. In East Germany, the authors found evidence of more traditional gender ideologies among mothers without a college degree as the child-care reform unfolded. The results provide evidence that policy reforms may alter gender ideologies also in the short-term.
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