Does Parental Employment Affect Children's Educational Attainment?

Autor/in	Schildberg-Hoerisch, Hannah
Titel	Does Parental Employment Affect Children's Educational Attainment?
Quelle	In: Economics of Education Review, 30 (2011) 6, S.1456-1467 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2011.07.013
Schlagwörter	Employed Parents; Parent Influence; Children; Educational Attainment; Child Care; Family Income; Mothers; Foreign Countries; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Familieneinkommen; Mother; Mutter; Ausland; Deutschland
Abstract	This paper analyzes whether there exists a causal relationship between parental employment and children's educational attainment. We address potential endogeneity problems due to (i) selection of parents in the labor market by estimating a model on sibling differences and (ii) reverse causality by focusing on parents' employment when children are aged 0-3. We use data from the German Socioeconomic Panel that provide information on household income, parental employment, and time spent with child care. Our approach disentangles income and time effects of parental employment. Overall, we find little support that parental employment affects children's educational attainment. Controlling for household income, we can rule out that having a mother who works one hour more per week lowers the probability of high secondary track attendance by more than 0.1%. (Contains 7 tables and 4 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10