Child-to-Teacher Ratio and Day Care Teacher Sickeness Absenteeism
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Child-to-Teacher Ratio and Day Care Teacher Sickeness Absenteeism. / Gørtz, Mette; Andersson, Elvira.
In: Health Economics, Vol. 23, No. 12, 2014, p. 1430-1442.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Child-to-Teacher Ratio and Day Care Teacher Sickeness Absenteeism
AU - Gørtz, Mette
AU - Andersson, Elvira
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The literature on occupational health points to work pressure as a trigger of sickness absence. However, reliable, objective measures of work pressure are in short supply. This paper uses Danish day care teachers as an ideal case for analysing whether work pressure measured by the child-to-teacher ratio, that is, the number of children per teacher in an institution, affects teacher sickness absenteeism. We control for individual teacher characteristics, workplace characteristics, and family background characteristics of the children in the day care institutions. We perform estimations for two time periods, 2002–2003 and 2005–2006, by using generalized method of moments with lagged levels of the child-to-teacher ratio as instrument. Our estimation results are somewhat mixed. Generally, the results indicate that the child-to-teacher ratio is positively related to short-term sickness absence for nursery care teachers, but not for preschool teacher
AB - The literature on occupational health points to work pressure as a trigger of sickness absence. However, reliable, objective measures of work pressure are in short supply. This paper uses Danish day care teachers as an ideal case for analysing whether work pressure measured by the child-to-teacher ratio, that is, the number of children per teacher in an institution, affects teacher sickness absenteeism. We control for individual teacher characteristics, workplace characteristics, and family background characteristics of the children in the day care institutions. We perform estimations for two time periods, 2002–2003 and 2005–2006, by using generalized method of moments with lagged levels of the child-to-teacher ratio as instrument. Our estimation results are somewhat mixed. Generally, the results indicate that the child-to-teacher ratio is positively related to short-term sickness absence for nursery care teachers, but not for preschool teacher
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - work pressure
KW - sickness absence
KW - day care
U2 - 10.1002/hec.2994
DO - 10.1002/hec.2994
M3 - Journal article
VL - 23
SP - 1430
EP - 1442
JO - Health Economics
JF - Health Economics
SN - 1057-9230
IS - 12
ER -
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