Does Early Maternal Employment Harm Child Development? An Analysis of the Potential Benefits of Leave Taking

Baum, Charles L.

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“…Given that the policy has been introduced very recently, we focus on the short-run consequences for child development here. Earlier studies suggest that maternal employment in the first year is associated with lower verbal and math test scores though the results are not always robust (Anderson and Levine 2000;Baum 2003;Berger et al 2005;Blau and Grossberg 1992;Ruhm 2004;Waldfogel et al 2002). 3 After a child's first birthday, the effects of non-parental childcare appear to be negligible or even positive (see e.g.…”

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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children

Gathmann

Sass

2018

Journal of Labor Economics

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Section: Related Literaturementioning

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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children

Gathmann

Sass

2018

Journal of Labor Economics

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“…Four studies use the same US data set, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), that covers young mothers with an average age of 22 when giving birth [3], [4], [5], [6]. The authors mainly focus on maternal employment during a child's first three years, measuring, for example, whether mothers worked at all, or the average number of hours worked per week or year.…”

Section: The Effect Of Maternal Employment On Children's Short-term Omentioning

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“…highly educated mothers or especially poor mothers). One study uses an instrumental variable approach that predicts maternal labor supply by using local labor market conditions (which are independent from a mother's individual characteristics, but still an important predictor of whether a mother works) and provides results based on predicted maternal labor supply [3]. Two other studies use family fixed effects, i.e.…”

Section: The Effect Of Maternal Employment On Children's Short-term Omentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The few studies that do aim at separating time and income effects provide mixed evidence; some of them do not find a significant positive effect of, for example, monthly or yearly household income on children's cognitive outcomes [1], [6], while others (tend to) do [3], [4]. There is some (limited) evidence that the pure time effect of parental employment becomes more negative for the child's outcome than the overall effect when separating the time and (positive) income effects of parental employment [3]. This suggests that the overall effect of parental employment can indeed be decomposed into a time effect and an income effect that may independently affect children's educational attainment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…[3], [4], [5], and [6]) use the same data set, NLSY data, and as such, they cannot provide independent estimates of the relation between parental employment and child outcomes. Additionally, NLSY data are not a representative sample, since they cover only young mothers with an average age of 22.…”

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