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Title: Maternal Labor Supply and Children's Cognitive Development
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Blau, Francine D. Grossberg, Adam J. |
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Maternal Labor Supply and Children's Cognitive Development NBER Working Paper No. 3536, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1990. Also: http://nber.nber.org/papers/W3536 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Child Care; Child Development; Children, Academic Development; Fathers, Absence; Gender Differences; General Assessment; Maternal Employment; Mothers, Education; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) This paper analyzes the relationship between maternal labor supply and children's cognitive development, using a sample of three- and four-year old children of female respondents from the 1986 NLSY. Respondents of the NLSY were aged 21-29 in 1986; thus the sample consists of children of relatively young mothers. The authors show that for this group the impact of maternal labor supply depends upon when it occurs. Maternal employment is found to have a negative impact when it occurs in the first year of the child's life and a potentially offsetting positive effect when it occurs during the second and subsequent years. Some evidence was found that boys are more sensitive to maternal labor supply than girls, though the gender difference is not significant. The negative first-year effect is not mitigated to any great extent by the increased maternal income that accompanies it, though the increase in maternal income does appear to play an important role in producing the positive effect in the second and later years. |
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Blau, Francine D. and Adam J. Grossberg. "Maternal Labor Supply and Children's Cognitive Development." NBER Working Paper No. 3536, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1990. |