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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 Review of Economics and Statistics 74,3 (August 1992): 474-481. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2109492 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Harvard University Press Keyword(s): 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) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. 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 National Longitudinal Survey Youth Cohort. Maternal employment is found to have a negative impact when it occurs during the first year of the child's life and a potentially offsetting positive effect when it occurs during the second and subsequent years. The authors' findings suggest that maternal employment throughout a child's first three or four years would have no net effect on the child's cognitive ability. |
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Blau, Francine D. and Adam J. Grossberg. "Maternal Labor Supply and Children's Cognitive Development." Review of Economics and Statistics 74,3 (August 1992): 474-481.
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