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Title: Child Care Choices and Children’s Cognitive Achievement: The Case of Single Mothers
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Bernal, Raquel Keane, Michael P. |
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Child Care Choices and Children’s Cognitive Achievement: The Case of Single Mothers Journal of Labor Economics 29,3 (July 2011): 459-512. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/659343 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Academic Development; Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Child Care; Child Care Arrangements; Child Support; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Parental Investments; Parents, Single; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); Welfare We evaluate the effect of child care versus maternal time inputs on child cognitive development using single mothers from the NLSY79. To deal with nonrandom selection of children into child care, we exploit the exogenous variation in welfare policy rules facing single mothers. In particular, the 1996 welfare reform and earlier state-level policy changes generated substantial increases in their work/child care use. We construct a comprehensive set of welfare policy variables and use them as instruments to estimate child cognitive ability production functions. In our baseline specification, we estimate that a year of child care reduces child test scores by 2.1%. |
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Bernal, Raquel and Michael P. Keane. "Child Care Choices and Children’s Cognitive Achievement: The Case of Single Mothers." Journal of Labor Economics 29,3 (July 2011): 459-512.
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