The effect of maternal employment on children's academic performance.

Autor/inn/en	Dunifon, Rachel; Toft Hansen, Anne; Nicholson, Sean; Palmhoj Nielsen, Lisbeth
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	The effect of maternal employment on children's academic performance. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Auswirkung der Berufstätigkeit von Müttern auf die Schulleistung ihrer Kinder.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass. (2013), 47 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper. 19364
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Kognitive Kompetenz; Familie; Mutter; Sekundarbereich; Schulleistung; Vollzeitarbeit; Beruf; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; Teilzeitbeschäftigung; Auswirkung; Jugendlicher; Dänemark
Abstract	Using a Danish data set that follows 135,000 Danish children from birth through 9th grade, we examine the effect of maternal employment during a child's first three and first 15 years on that child's grade point average in 9th grade. We address the endogeneity of employment by including a rich set of household control variables, instrumenting for employment with the gender- and education-specific local unemployment rate, and by including maternal fixed effects. We find that maternal employment has a positive effect on children's academic performance in all specifications, particularly when women work part-time. This is in contrast with the larger literature on maternal employment, much of which takes place in other contexts, and which finds no or a small negative effect of maternal employment on children's cognitive development and academic performance. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2014/1