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Title: Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development
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Ruhm, Christopher J. |
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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development NBER Working Paper No. 10691, National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2004. Also: http://www.nber.org/papers/w10691 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavior, Antisocial; Behavioral Problems; Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Obesity; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Smoking (see Cigarette Use); Substance Use; Weight This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds after controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family background characteristics. The results suggest that the mother's labor supply has deleterious effects on cognitive development, obesity and possibly risky behaviors such as smoking or drinking, while reducing behavior problems. These negative consequences are quite small for the average child, however, and usually restricted to relatively long maternal work hours. Less intensive employment is often associated with favorable outcomes and labor supply after the first three years typically has little effect. By contrast, large adverse consequences are frequently obtained for "advantaged" adolescents, with negative impacts predicted even for limited amounts of maternal labor supply and for work during the child's fourth through ninth year. |
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Ruhm, Christopher J. "Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development." NBER Working Paper No. 10691, National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2004. |