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Author: Rabon, John Stuart
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1. Rabon, John Stuart
Fertility, Maternal Employment, and the Effect on a Child's Cognitive Achievement
Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina, March 2011
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Keyword(s): Achievement; Cognitive Development; Fertility; Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading)

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Here I present a model of the female life-cycle decision making process, focusing on fertility and maternal employment, and the pathways through which she affects her children's cognitive outcomes. Previous analyses which model cognitive achievement are more limited in scope through modeling fewer endogenous decisions and/or use a limited sample to discover the effect of specific government policies. Here, I explicitly account for the relationship between a woman's family-size and career preferences and how those preferences affect her child's cognitive outcomes.
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Rabon, John Stuart. "Fertility, Maternal Employment, and the Effect on a Child's Cognitive Achievement." Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina, March 2011.