Do Family Policy Regimes Matter for Childrens Well-Being?
Do Family Policy Regimes Matter for Childrens Well-Being?
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DOI：
10.1093/sp/jxr006
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发表时间：
2011-03-01
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1.9
通讯作者：
Stensoeta, Helena Olofsdotter
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作者：
Engster, Daniel;Stensoeta, Helena Olofsdotter
研究人员研究了不同福利国家制度，特别是家庭政策制度对性别平等的影响。然而，关于不同家庭政策制度与儿童福祉之间的联系的研究很少。本文探讨了20个经合组织国家的不同家庭政策制度如何在儿童贫困、儿童死亡率、教育成就和成就等领域与儿童福祉相关。我们特别关注三项家庭政策：家庭现金和税收优惠、带薪育儿假和公共托儿支持。使用1995年、2000年和2005年的面板数据，我们检验了这些政策与儿童福祉之间的关联，同时保持一些结构和政策变量不变。我们的分析表明，双职工制度结合了对带薪育儿假的高水平支持和公共儿童保育，与低水平的儿童贫困和儿童死亡率密切相关。我们发现家庭政策对教育成就的长期影响不大，但高家庭政策支持与高学历之间存在显著的正相关。我们的结论是，家庭政策对改善儿童福祉有重大影响，双职工制度是促进儿童健康和发展的最佳做法。
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 childrens well-being. This article explores how the different family policy regimes of twenty OECD countries relate to childrens 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 childrens well-being, and that dual-earner regimes represent the best practice for promoting childrens health and development.