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. 2022 Jun 2;10:874877. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.874877

Table 3.

Effects of parenthood on life satisfaction by stratified labor market group: Gender differences (FE).

Male Female
β s.e. β s.e.
(1) Large ·regular·no child (ref: SME·irregular·child) 0.164*** (0.039) 0.229*** (0.051)
(2) Large·regular·child 0.086*** (0.030) 0.097*** (0.035)
(3) Large·irregular·no child 0.090 (0.089) 0.170* (0.094)
(4) Large·irregular·child 0.065 (0.046) 0.052 (0.039)
(5) SME·regular·no child 0.133*** (0.034) 0.140*** (0.038)
(6) SME·regular ·child 0.069*** (0.026) 0.045* (0.025)
(7) SME·irregular ·no child 0.185*** (0.055) 0.136*** (0.045)
Age −0.029 (0.018) 0.010 (0.021)
Age2 0.000* (0.000) 0.000 (0.000)
Separated (ref: Married) −0.303*** (0.104) −0.085 (0.084)
Divorced −0.315*** (0.052) −0.087* (0.052)
Widowed −0.088 (0.215) −0.347** (0.159)
Subjective health condition 0.195*** (0.008) 0.191*** (0.012)
Middle school graduate (ref: Did not graduate from middle school) 0.172 (0.219) 0.678 (0.472)
High school graduate 0.229 (0.289) 0.635 (0.520)
Graduate of 2-year college 0.195 (0.303) 0.567 (0.524)
Graduate of 4-year college 0.139 (0.305) 0.560 (0.527)
Graduate of graduate school 0.045 (0.311) 0.501 (0.540)
Household income 0.004 (0.007) 0.026** (0.010)
Hourly wage 0.186*** (0.021) 0.067*** (0.026)
Overtime work −0.002*** (0.001) 0.001 (0.001)
Experience 0.000 (0.003) 0.004 (0.005)
Experience2 0.000 (0.000) 0.000 (0.000)
Public enterprise (ref: Private enterprise) 0.012 (0.034) −0.050 (0.039)
Miscellaneous 0.057 (0.119) 0.119 (0.094)
Constant 2.166*** (0.517) 1.623** (0.735)
sigma_u 0.382 0.479
sigma_e 0.446 0.450
Rho 0.423 0.531
N 13,953 7,993
N of group 2,820 2,149

Source: Korean Labor and Income Panel Study(1st−20th).

*

p < 0.1,

**

p < 0.05,

***

p < 0.01. sigma_u: standard deviation of residuals within groups, sigma_e: standard deviation of residuals (overall error term), Rho=(sigmau)2/(sigmau)2+(sigmae)2.