Mechanisms for the Association between Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Development. NBER Working Paper No. 13609

Autor/inn/en	Cawley, John; Liu, Feng
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
Titel	Mechanisms for the Association between Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Development. NBER Working Paper No. 13609
Quelle	(2007) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Employed Women; Cognitive Development; Cognitive Ability; Correlation; Time Factors (Learning); Learning Activities; Parent Child Relationship; Child Development; Cognitive Tests; Child Rearing; Parent Influence; Parents as Teachers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Kognitive Entwicklung; Denkfähigkeit; Korrelation; Lernaktivität; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Kindesentwicklung; Kognitiver Fähigkeitstest; Kindererziehung
Abstract	Recent research has found that maternal employment is associated with worse child performance on tests of cognitive ability. This paper explores mechanisms for that correlation. We estimate models of instrumental variables using a unique dataset, the American Time Use Survey, that measure the effect of maternal employment on the mother's allocation of time to activities related to child cognitive development. We find that employed women spend significantly less time reading to their children, helping with homework, and in educational activities in general. We find no evidence that these decreases in time are offset by increases in time by husbands and partners. These findings offer plausible mechanisms for the association of maternal employment with child cognitive development. (As Provided).
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