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Mukherjee, Sumanta Fink, Guenther |
The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child's Mental Health: Evidence from the NLSY-Child Presented: Chicago, IL, Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting, March 14-16, 2008 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Midwest Economics Association Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Mental Health; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Depression (see also CESD); Maternal Employment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. An extensive literature has analyzed the effect of a mother's employment on the cognitive outcomes of her children. However, the role of maternal employment in a childs noncognitive development has received comparatively scant attention. In this paper, data on a panel of children aged four through fifteen are analyzed to explore the effect of maternal employment on a child's mental health outcomes. Using ordinary least squares and fixed effects estimates, we find that mothers who spend more time at home have children with fewer emotional problems: they score lower on the behavioral problems index; they are also less likely to be frequently unhappy or depressed. In addition, children with mothers spending more time at home are less likely to hurt someone, steal something, or skip school. We test and confirm the robustness of our results by using involuntary job losses as alternative identification strategy. |
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Mukherjee, Sumanta and Guenther Fink. "The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child's Mental Health: Evidence from the NLSY-Child." Presented: Chicago, IL, Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting, March 14-16, 2008. |
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Mukherjee, Sumanta Fink, Guenther |
The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child's Mental Health: Evidence from the NLSY-Child Presented: Chicago, IL, Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, November 20-23, 2008 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Southern Economic Association Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Mental Health; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Depression (see also CESD); Maternal Employment An extensive literature has analyzed the effect of a mother's employment on the cognitive outcomes of her children. However, the role of maternal employment in a child's noncognitive development has received comparatively scant attention. In this paper, data on a panel of children aged four through fifteen are analyzed to explore the effect of maternal employment on a child's mental health outcomes. Using ordinary least squares and fixed effects estimates, we find that mothers who spend more time at home have children with fewer emotional problems: they score lower on the behavioral problems index; they are also less likely to be frequently unhappy or depressed. In addition, children with mothers spending more time at home are less likely to hurt someone, steal something, or skip school. We test and confirm the robustness of our results by using involuntary job losses as alternative identification strategy. |
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Bibliography Citation
Mukherjee, Sumanta and Guenther Fink. "The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child's Mental Health: Evidence from the NLSY-Child." Presented: Chicago, IL, Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, November 20-23, 2008. |