Replication data for: To Work or Not to Work? Child Development and Maternal Labor Supply
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Project Citation:
Frijters, Paul, Johnston, David W., Shah, Manisha, and Shields, Michael A. Replication data for: To Work or Not to Work? Child Development and Maternal Labor Supply. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2009. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113569V1
Project Description
Summary:
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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)
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
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