To Work or Not to Work? Child Development and Maternal Labor Supply

被引：20
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作者：
Frijters, Paul [2 ]
Johnston, David W. [2 ]
Shah, Manisha [1 ]
Shields, Michael A. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Melbourne, Dept Econ, Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia
[2] Queensland Univ Technol, Sch Econ & Finance, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia
来源：
AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS | 2009年 / 1卷 / 03期
关键词：
HANDEDNESS; HEALTH; DISABILITY; TIME;
D O I：
10.1257/app.1.3.97
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
We estimate the effect of early child development on maternal labor force participation. Mothers of poorly developing children may remain at home to care for their children. Alternatively, mothers may enter the labor force to pay for additional educational and health resources. Which action dominates is the empirical question we answer in this paper. We control for the potential endogeneity of child development by using an instrumental variables approach, uniquely exploiting exogenous variation in child development associated with child handedness. We find that a one unit increase in poor child development decreases maternal labor force participation by approximately 10 percentage points. (JEL J13, J16, J22)
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页码：97 / 110
页数：14
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