Journal
LABOUR ECONOMICS
Volume 15, Issue 5, Pages 958-983Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2007.07.008
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Maternal employment; Adolescent development; Cognitive test scores; Child obesity; Socioeconomic status
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD047215, R01 HD038521-02, R01 HD038521-01A1, R01 HD038521-03, R01 HD047215-02] Funding Source: Medline
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This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the cognitive development and body weight of 10 and 11 year olds, controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited market work benefits Youths who are relatively disadvantaged and even long hours, which occur infrequently, are unlikely to leave them much worse off. By contrast, maternal labor supply is estimated to have more uniformly harmful consequences for advantaged adolescents. The negative cognitive effects for these youths probably partly occur because maternal labor Supply reduces the time spent in enriching home environments. Some of the growth in obesity may be related to determinants of excess weight common to the child and mother. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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