Table 3.

The impact on maternal life satisfaction—fuzzy RD estimates

	Maternal life satisfaction
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
	Without controls			With controls
	1st stage	Reduced form	2nd stage	1st stage	Reduced form	2nd stage
Above cut-off age	0.167***	0.088**		0.168***	0.087**
	(0.025)	(0.040)		(0.025)	(0.039)
Childcare attendance			0.528**			0.518**
			(0.222)			(0.220)
Controls	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Nbr. observations	7897	7897	7897	7897	7897	7897
Nbr. mother–child pairs	1743	1743	1743	1743	1743	1743
R-squared	0.64	0.02	0.01	0.64	0.03	0.02

The table displays the first-stage, reduced form and second-stage RD coefficients. All models include a piecewise linear and quadratic age trend and individual fixed effects. Columns 3–5 include the additional set of covariates on the individual level displayed in Table 1 and season and year dummies. Robust standard errors in parenthesis. *10% level of significance, ** 5% level of significance, *** 1% level of significance

Source: SOEP v31, own calculation