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Title: Maternal Input Choices and Child Cognitive Development: Testing for Reverse Causality
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Nazarov, Zafar |
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Maternal Input Choices and Child Cognitive Development: Testing for Reverse Causality Applied Economics Letters 26,20 (2019): 1659-1663. Also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504851.2019.1591588 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Routledge ==> Taylor & Francis (1998) Keyword(s): Achievement; Child Care; Maternal Employment; Parental Investments; Parents, Single; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) I assess whether the results of child achievement tests affect maternal employment and the child-care choices of mothers with prekindergarten children. To test this hypothesis, I use a quasi-structural approach to form approximations to the mother's employment and child-care decision rules and jointly estimate them with the child cognitive development production function and wage equation. Using a sample of single mothers from the NLSY79, I find evidence that maternal employment and child-care decisions are sensitive to past achievement scores. In particular, a mother whose child has taken the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test before entering kindergarten and whose child's standardized test score is above a certain threshold intends to use childcare more and work more part-time hours immediately after observing the child's performance on the achievement test. |
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Nazarov, Zafar. "Maternal Input Choices and Child Cognitive Development: Testing for Reverse Causality." Applied Economics Letters 26,20 (2019): 1659-1663.
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