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Author: Barua, Rashmi
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1. Barua, Rashmi
Children's Academic Achievements and Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence Using State School Entry Age Laws
Ph.D. Dissertation, Boston University, Department of Economics, 2009
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): Geocoded Data; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); School Entry/Readiness; School Progress; State-Level Data/Policy

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This dissertation addresses the issue of optimal school entry age. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and the US Census, this study examines the effect of delaying kindergarten entry on cognitive test scores, educational attainment and maternal labor supply.

The first essay estimates the effect of a one year delay in entering kindergarten on academic performance. To deal with the endogeneity of school entrance age, we exploit the variation in month of birth and state kindergarten entrance age laws. The results suggest that older entrants have higher test scores compared to younger entrants in the same grade and are less likely to repeat grades. However conditional on age, older entrants perform worse because they have completed less schooling. scores, educational attainment and maternal labor supply.

The second essay uses Two Sample Instrumental Variables (TSIV) to estimate the effect of delayed school entry on educational attainment. We show that previous studies that have used instrumental variables to deal with the endogeneity of school entry age are severely biased. In addition, we propose a structural model of optimal kindergarten entry age and use indirect inference simulation methods to estimate the parameters of the model. Further, we use our simulated data to obtain true Local Average Treatment Effect estimates of the effect of school entry age on educational attainment, scores, educational attainment and maternal labor supply.

The third chapter evaluates the effect of delaying kindergarten entry on long run maternal labor supply. I use an exogenous source of variation in maternal net earning opportunities, generated through school entrance age of children, to study intertemporal labor supply behavior. The estimates suggest that delayed school enrollment has long run implications for maternal labor supply. Results point towards significant intertemporal substitution in labor supply. In particular, rough calculations yield an uncompensated wage elasticity of 0.76, wealth elasticity of -0.37 and an intertemporal elasticity of substitution equal to 1.1.

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Barua, Rashmi. Children's Academic Achievements and Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence Using State School Entry Age Laws. Ph.D. Dissertation, Boston University, Department of Economics, 2009.
2. Barua, Rashmi
Intertemporal Substitution in Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence Using State School Entrance Age Laws
Working Paper, Department of Economics, Boston University, November 2007.
Also: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1056323
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Economics, Boston University
Keyword(s): Geocoded Data; Labor Market Outcomes; Maternal Employment; School Entry/Readiness; State-Level Data/Policy

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

In this paper, I propose a new framework to study the intertemporal labor supply hypothesis. I use an exogenous source of variation in maternal net earning opportunities, generated through school entrance age of children, to study intertemporal labor supply behavior. Employing data from the 1980 US Census and the NLSY, I estimate the effect of a one year delay in school attendance on long run maternal labor supply. To deal with the endogeneity of school attendance age, I exploit the variation in child month of birth and state kindergarten entrance age laws.

IV estimates imply that having a 5 year old enrolled in school increases labor supply measures for married women, with no younger children, by between 7 to 34 percent. In contrast to the results for married mothers, I do not find any statistically significant effect on labor market outcomes for single mothers or mothers of 5 year olds with additional younger children. Further, using a sample of 7 to 10 year olds from the NLSY, I investigate persistence in employment outcomes for a married mother whose child delayed school entry. The estimates suggest that delayed school enrollment has long run implications for maternal labor supply. Results point towards significant intertemporal substitution in labor supply. Rough calculations yield an uncompensated wage elasticity of 0.76 and an intertemporal elasticity of substitution equal to 1.1.

Bibliography Citation
Barua, Rashmi. "Intertemporal Substitution in Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence Using State School Entrance Age Laws." Working Paper, Department of Economics, Boston University, November 2007.
3. Barua, Rashmi
Intertemporal Substitution in Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence Using State School Entrance Age Laws
MPRA Paper No. 7923, Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 12 May 2008.
Also: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7923/
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA)
Keyword(s): Census of Population; Endogeneity; Geocoded Data; Human Capital; Labor Market Outcomes; Maternal Employment; School Entry/Readiness; State-Level Data/Policy; Time Use

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

[First posted 25 March 2008.]
[Originally appeared as: Working Paper, Department of Economics, Boston University, November 2007].
In this paper, I propose a new framework to study the intertemporal labor supply hypothesis. I use an exogenous source of variation in maternal net earning opportunities, generated through school entrance age of children, to study intertemporal labor supply behavior. Employing data from the 1980 US Census and the NLSY, I estimate the effect of a one year delay in school attendance on long run maternal labor supply. To deal with the endogeneity of school attendance age, I exploit the variation in child month of birth and state kindergarten entrance age laws. IV estimates imply that having a 5 year old enrolled in school increases labor supply measures for married women, with no younger children, by between 7 to 34 percent. In contrast to the results for married mothers, I do not find any statistically significant effect on labor market outcomes for single mothers or mothers of 5 year olds with additional younger children. Further, using a sample of 7 to 10 year olds from the NLSY, I investigate persistence in employment outcomes for a married mother whose child delayed school entry. The estimates suggest that delayed school enrollment has long run implications for maternal labor supply. Results point towards significant intertemporal substitution in labor supply. Rough calculations yield an uncompensated wage elasticity of 0.76 and an intertemporal elasticity of substitution equal to 1.1.
Bibliography Citation
Barua, Rashmi. "Intertemporal Substitution in Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence Using State School Entrance Age Laws." MPRA Paper No. 7923, Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 12 May 2008.
4. Barua, Rashmi
Intertemporal Substitution in Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence Using State School Entrance Age Laws
Labour Economics 31 (December 2014): 129-140.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537114000852
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Census of Population; Endogeneity; Geocoded Data; Human Capital; Labor Market Outcomes; Maternal Employment; School Entry/Readiness; State-Level Data/Policy; Time Use

Using exogenous variation in maternal net earning opportunities, generated through school entrance age of children, I study intertemporal labor supply behavior among married mothers. Employing data from the 1980 US Census and the NLSY, I estimate the effect of a one year delay in school attendance on long run maternal labor supply. IV estimates imply that having a 5 year old enrolled in school increases labor supply for married women. Further, using a sample of 7 to 10 year olds from the NLSY, I investigate persistence in employment outcomes for a married mother whose child delayed school entry. Results point towards long run intertemporal substitution in labor supply. Rough calculations yield an uncompensated wage elasticity of 0.37 and an intertemporal elasticity of substitution equal to 0.73.
Bibliography Citation
Barua, Rashmi. "Intertemporal Substitution in Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence Using State School Entrance Age Laws ." Labour Economics 31 (December 2014): 129-140.