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Title: The Effect of Maternal Employment and Child Care Choices on Children's Cognitive Development
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Bernal, Raquel |
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The Effect of Maternal Employment and Child Care Choices on Children's Cognitive Development Working Paper (April 2005), University of Chicago, Department of Economics, April 2005. Also: http://economics.uchicago.edu/download/Bernal060205.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Chicago Keyword(s): Child Care; Child Development; Endogeneity; Leave, Family or Maternity/Paternity; Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of employment and child care decisions of women after birth in order to evaluate the effects of maternal employment and daycare choices on children's cognitive ability. I use data from the NLSY to estimate the model. Results indicate that the effects of maternal employment and child care on children's ability are negative and rather sizeable. In fact, having a full-time working mother who uses child care during the first 5 years after the birth of her child is associated with a 10.4% reduction in child's ability test scores. Based on the estimates of the model, I assess the impact of policies related to parental leave, child care and other incentives to stay at home after birth on women's decisions and children's outcomes. |
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Bernal, Raquel. "The Effect of Maternal Employment and Child Care Choices on Children's Cognitive Development." Working Paper (April 2005), University of Chicago, Department of Economics, April 2005. |