Psychological Barriers to Health and Child Support Benefits in the Netherlands

Comprising a probability sample of 905 individuals from the Dutch population, empirically testing an integral model for healthcare and child support benefits take-up. It applies model averaging with Akaike’s Information Criterion to examine how psychological factors explain take-up behavior.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between perceptions of eligibility and actual take-up for healthcare and child support benefits.
• Examine how factors like executive functions, self-efficacy, and fear of reclaims explain perceived eligibility for healthcare benefits.
• Investigate the explanatory role of perceptions of need in the take-up of healthcare benefits.
• Explore the lack of support for knowledge, support, and administrative burden as factors in benefit take-up.
• Use the data to discuss results in relation to the Capability Opportunity Motivation Behaviour (COM-B) model for behavioral interventions.

Strengths

• Based on a probability sample of 905 individuals from the Dutch population, providing a defined study base.
• Empirically tests an integral model using statistical model averaging with Akaike’s Information Criterion (AICC).
• Examines two distinct types of benefits (healthcare and child support) for comparative analysis.

Limitations

• Sample size of 905 may limit the statistical power for detecting smaller effect sizes or interactions.
• Findings are specific to the Netherlands, limiting generalizability to other countries or welfare systems.
• Relies on self-reported perceptions and survey data, which may be subject to social desirability or recall bias.

Provenance

Source

DataverseNL Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Probability sample of the Dutch population (N = 905).

Freshness

Data was last updated on 2023-12-25.

Geography

Netherlands