Table 3.
The impact of frequency of informal caregiving on caregivers’ subjective well-being in the China family panel studies 2016, 2018,2020
| Variables | Subjective wellbeing | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ordered logit | Fixed effects Ologit | Mixed effects Ologit | |
| Low-frequency of care | 0.940* (0.030) | 0.974** (0.012) | 0.954** (0.023) |
| High-frequency of care | 0.769*** (0.038) | 0.806** (0.088) | 0.782*** (0.031) |
| Age | 0.994*** (0.001) | 0.906 (0.104) | 0.995*** (0.001) |
| Female | 0.958 (0.033) | N.A. | 0.963 (0.034) |
| Married | 1.734*** (0.066) | 1.906*** (0.336) | 1.592*** (0.037) |
| Urban | 0.953 (0.028) | 1.042 (0.189) | 0.926 (0.028) |
| Medical insurance | 1.094** (0.050) | 1.190 (0.152) | 1.118** (0.045) |
| Secondary school | 0.730*** (0.025) | 0.641 (0.211) | 0.737*** (0.033) |
| College and above | 0.756*** (0.034) | 0.417 (0.470) | 0.790*** (0.043) |
| Working status | 1.000 (0.041) | 1.022 (0.137) | 1.004 (0.040) |
| Log of income per capita | 1.006 (0.004) | 1.004 (0.012) | 1.006 (0.004) |
| Chronic diseases | 0.616*** (0.028) | 0.739*** (0.093) | 0.519*** (0.046) |
| Smoking | 0.847*** (0.030) | 0.657*** (0.105) | 0.840*** (0.035) |
| Drinking | 1.017 (0.041) | 0.861 (0.110) | 1.031 (0.040) |
| Living with parents | 0.974 (0.071) | 0.974 (0.227) | 0.972 (0.069) |
| Having children | 0.582 (0.416) | 0.828 (0.962) | 0.536 (0.715) |
| Household size | 1.040*** (0.007) | 1.073** (0.037) | 1.025*** (0.007) |
| One of the parents still alive | 0.948 (0.033) | 0.886 (0.119) | 0.936 (0.052) |
| Pseudo R2 | 0.022 | 0.030 | - |
| Observations | 19,264 | 19,264 | 19,264 |
Note: *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1. Odds Ratio are reported and robust standard errors are in brackets. These models controlled for the dummy variables of year and province