Abstract
This paper analyses the relation between maternal work hours and the cognitive development of young school-going children. We find that children's language and sorting test scores are higher when their mothers have a large part-time job or even a full-time job. We find no evidence that this can be explained by a richer home environment in terms of the number of parent-child activities provided to the child.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 203-232 |
Number of pages | 30 |
Journal | De Economist |
Volume | 163 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2015 |
Keywords
- Intergenerational human capital investments
- (Non) cognitive skills
- Maternal labour supply
- Home environment
- PARENTAL EMPLOYMENT
- ACHIEVEMENT
- INCOME
- BEHAVIOR
- FAMILY
- METAANALYSIS
- OUTCOMES
- CONTEXT
- MOTHERS
- TERM