Evidence from Maternity Leave Expansions of the Impact of Maternal Care on Early Child Development

Autor/inn/en	Baker, Michael; Milligan, Kevin
Titel	Evidence from Maternity Leave Expansions of the Impact of Maternal Care on Early Child Development
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 45 (2010) 1, S.1-32 (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Parent Child Relationship; Social Development; Child Development; Infants; Mothers; Child Rearing; Foreign Countries; Child Care; Psychomotor Skills; Longitudinal Studies; Leaves of Absence; Public Policy; Employed Parents; Environmental Influences; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Soziale Entwicklung; Kindesentwicklung; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Mother; Mutter; Kindererziehung; Ausland; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Lehrerbeurlaubung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Kanada
Abstract	We study the impact of maternal care on early child development using an expansion in Canadian maternity leave entitlements. Following the leave expansion, mothers who took leave spent 48-58 percent more time not working in their children's first year of life. This extra maternal care primarily crowded out home-based care by unlicensed nonrelatives and replaced full-time work. Our estimates suggest a weak impact of this increase in maternal care on indicators of child development. For example, measures of temperament and motor and social development show changes that are small and statistically insignificant. (Contains 17 footnotes, 10 tables, and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10