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Child-to-teacher ratio and day care teacher sickness absenteeism

In English

Författare

  • Mette Gortz
  • Elvira Andersson

Summary, in English

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 teachers. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1430-1442

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Health Economics

Volym

23

Issue

12

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ämne

  • Economics

Nyckelord

  • work pressure
  • sickness absence
  • day care

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Essays on the Empirical Relationship between Health Outcomes and Economic Outcomes

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1099-1050