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Title: Maternal Employment and Academic Achievement: An Empirical Project
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Welding, Kevin |
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Maternal Employment and Academic Achievement: An Empirical Project Masters Thesis, Applied Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, May 2006. Also: http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~kwelding/documents/kevin_final_draft.doc Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Keyword(s): Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper uses the NLSY79 to link mothers to their children and exploit detailed information on child, mother and household characteristics, as well as supplemental area, paternal and income information. Maternal employment was found to have a small, statistically insignificant effect on achievement test scores. The estimates show that maternal employment during the first five years of a child's life has a negative effect on achievement test scores and recent maternal employment has a positive effect, but both estimates are statistically insignificant. The results do not show a significant difference in effects of maternal employment for daughters and sons. The most compelling results occur when maternal employment effects are examined for advantaged and disadvantaged children separately. The estimates provide evidence of neutral and harmful effects of maternal employment for children in higher SES families and neutral and beneficial effects for children in lower SES families. |
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Welding, Kevin. Maternal Employment and Academic Achievement: An Empirical Project. Masters Thesis, Applied Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, May 2006.. |