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Author: Mukherjee, Sumanta
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The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child's Mental Health: Evidence from NLSY-Child Working Paper, University of Kansas, September 2009 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Kansas Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Mental Health; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Household Composition; Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Risk-Taking Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. An extensive literature has analyzed the effect of a mother's employment on cognitive outcomes of her children. However, the role of maternal employment in a child's noncognitive development has received comparatively scant attention. In this paper, data on a panel of children aged four through fifteen are analyzed to explore the effect of maternal employment on a child's mental health outcomes. Using ordinary least squares and fixed effects estimates, we find that mothers who spend more time at home have children with fewer emotional problems: they score lower on the behavioral problems index; they are also less likely to be frequently unhappy or depressed. In addition, children with mothers spending more time at home are less likely to hurt someone, steal something, or skip school. |
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Mukherjee, Sumanta. "The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child's Mental Health: Evidence from NLSY-Child." Working Paper, University of Kansas, September 2009. |
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The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child's Mental Health: Evidence from NLSY-Child Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Mental Health; Cognitive Development; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, OLS; Noncognitive Skills; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Risk-Taking Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. An extensive literature has analyzed the effect of a mother's employment on cognitive outcomes of her children. However, the role of maternal employment in a child's noncognitive development has received comparatively scant attention. In this paper, data on a panel of children aged four through fifteen are analyzed to explore the effect of maternal employment on a child's mental health outcomes. Using ordinary least squares and fixed effects estimates, we find that mothers who spend more time at home have children with fewer emotional problems: they score lower on the behavioral problems index; they are also less likely to be frequently unhappy or depressed. In addition, children with mothers spending more time at home are less likely to hurt someone, steal something, or skip school. |
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Mukherjee, Sumanta. "The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child's Mental Health: Evidence from NLSY-Child." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011. |
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Three Essays on Child Health and Skill Formation: Maternal Employment and Non-Cognitive Skill Formation: Evidence from NLSY79 PhD Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Kansas, April 2011 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Children; Children, Mental Health; Cognitive Development; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Household Composition; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Noncognitive Skills; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Risk-Taking Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation attempts to add to the scholarly literature on parental investments in children. In particular, these essays study a number of ways in which children use their time, and the potential influence of such use of time on the development of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in school-age children in the U.S. and in India. The particular uses of time that this dissertation addresses include participation in lessons and sports, spending time with mothers, and spending time away from school to support family members. The key difficulty in identifying a causal impact of these choices arises from the possibility that a child's human capital acquisition decisions are made jointly with a variety of other decisions. To deal with potential endogeneity in these analyses, I employ a number of empirical techniques: individual fixed effects, sibling fixed effects, and instrumental variables. The first essay examines the impact of parental choices regarding extra-curricular activities on the health and skill acquisition outcomes of school-age children in the US. Using longitudinal time use data from the Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the PSID, I find reduced behavioral problems and enhanced positive development for children that engage in structured activity. Participation in lessons also significantly increases positive behavior and mathematics test scores. In the second essay, data on a panel of children aged five through eighteen from the NLSY-Child (1979) are analyzed to explore the effect of maternal employment on a child's mental health outcomes. Using fixed effects estimates, we find that mothers who spend more time at home have children with fewer emotional problems: they score lower on the behavioral problems index; they are also less likely to be frequently unhappy or depressed. In the final essay, cross-section data drawn from the 50 th Round of National Sample Survey (NSS) from rural India are analyzed to explore the relationship between fertility and child labor. Our results indicate the possibility of a sibling subsidization effect: all else equal, a new child in the family results in increasing the probability of sending an oldest child in the age group 5-14 out to work by over 5 percent. |
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Mukherjee, Sumanta. Three Essays on Child Health and Skill Formation: Maternal Employment and Non-Cognitive Skill Formation: Evidence from NLSY79. PhD Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Kansas, April 2011. |
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Mukherjee, Sumanta Fink, Guenther |
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The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child's Mental Health: Evidence from the NLSY-Child Presented: Chicago, IL, Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting, March 14-16, 2008 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Midwest Economics Association Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Mental Health; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Depression (see also CESD); Maternal Employment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. An extensive literature has analyzed the effect of a mother's employment on the cognitive outcomes of her children. However, the role of maternal employment in a childs noncognitive development has received comparatively scant attention. In this paper, data on a panel of children aged four through fifteen are analyzed to explore the effect of maternal employment on a child's mental health outcomes. Using ordinary least squares and fixed effects estimates, we find that mothers who spend more time at home have children with fewer emotional problems: they score lower on the behavioral problems index; they are also less likely to be frequently unhappy or depressed. In addition, children with mothers spending more time at home are less likely to hurt someone, steal something, or skip school. We test and confirm the robustness of our results by using involuntary job losses as alternative identification strategy. |
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Mukherjee, Sumanta and Guenther Fink. "The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child's Mental Health: Evidence from the NLSY-Child." Presented: Chicago, IL, Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting, March 14-16, 2008. |
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The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child's Mental Health: Evidence from the NLSY-Child Presented: Chicago, IL, Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, November 20-23, 2008 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Southern Economic Association Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Mental Health; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Depression (see also CESD); Maternal Employment An extensive literature has analyzed the effect of a mother's employment on the cognitive outcomes of her children. However, the role of maternal employment in a child's noncognitive development has received comparatively scant attention. In this paper, data on a panel of children aged four through fifteen are analyzed to explore the effect of maternal employment on a child's mental health outcomes. Using ordinary least squares and fixed effects estimates, we find that mothers who spend more time at home have children with fewer emotional problems: they score lower on the behavioral problems index; they are also less likely to be frequently unhappy or depressed. In addition, children with mothers spending more time at home are less likely to hurt someone, steal something, or skip school. We test and confirm the robustness of our results by using involuntary job losses as alternative identification strategy. |
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Mukherjee, Sumanta and Guenther Fink. "The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child's Mental Health: Evidence from the NLSY-Child." Presented: Chicago, IL, Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, November 20-23, 2008. |