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Title: Mother's Home Time and the Production of Child Quality
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Fleisher, Belton M. |
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Mother's Home Time and the Production of Child Quality Demography 14,2 (May 1977): 197-212. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/f21v14272148p723/ Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Men Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Children; Earnings; Educational Attainment; Family Background and Culture; Family Resources; I.Q.; Mothers; Time Use; Work Experience Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper deals with the effect of mother's time spent out of the labor force, and presumably in the home, on the "production" of child quality, where child quality is measured by intelligence (IQ), level of schooling attained, and market earning power. The results indicate that mother's home time is most effective in producing (male) child quality for mothers who have attained relatively high levels of schooling. The results suggest that education programs which devote equal school resources to all (male) children do not necessarily provide equal educational opportunity and that the influence of family background on economic success is indirect, operating through home investments in children. |
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Fleisher, Belton M. "Mother's Home Time and the Production of Child Quality." Demography 14,2 (May 1977): 197-212.
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