Abstract

Poverty and its effect on parenting in the context of the family stress model have a long tradition in research, but results are rather mixed. Following this theoretical approach, we analyse whether poverty and financial pressure are associated with disrupted parenting. We draw on data from the German Family Panel pairfam and implement both between and within approaches to test whether parenting behaviours are associated with economic hardship and pressure. While basic between-group regressions confirm the link between economic hardship and parenting as predicted by the family stress model, we do not find a significant association of poverty and parenting when including additional confounders or using fixed-effects models. We conclude that rather than the financial situation itself unobserved heterogeneity causes differences in parenting behaviours between better and worse off families, at least in Germany.

中文翻译：

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经济困难和压力真的会影响育儿吗？

摘要

在家庭压力模型的背景下，贫困及其对养育子女的影响在研究中具有悠久的历史，但结果却参差不齐。按照这种理论方法，我们分析了贫困和经济压力是否与育儿中断有关。我们从德国家庭小组的配对研究中获取数据，并在方法之间和方法内部进行测试，以检验育儿行为是否与经济困难和压力有关。虽然基本的群体间回归确定了家庭压力模型所预测的经济困难与父母养育之间的联系，但是当包括其他混杂因素或使用固定效应模型时，我们没有发现贫困与父母养育之间存在显着关联。