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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2004
This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds after controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family background characteristics. The results suggest that the mother's labor supply has deleterious effects on cognitive development,...
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The Effect of Maternal Depression and Substance Abuse on Child Human Capital Development
Frank, Richard G. - 2009
abuse on children born to mothers in the initial cohort of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a national … home and parental mental health can have notable impacts on skill development in children that may affect the stock of … household survey of high school students aged 14-22 in 1979. We follow 1587 children aged 1-5 in 1987, observing them throughout …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463336
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Typically Unobserved Variables (TUVs) and Selection into Prenatal Inputs : Implications for Estimating Infant Health Production Functions
Reichman, Nancy E. - 2006
We examine the extent to which infant health production functions are sensitive to model specification and measurement error. We focus on the importance of typically unobserved but theoretically important variables (TUVs), other non-standard covariates (NSCs), input reporting, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466667
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Maternal Mortality Risk and Spousal Differences in the Demand for Children
Ashraf, Nava - 2020
Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which an initial gender gap in ideal fertility prevents effective communication between spouses about the costs of childbearing incurred by women. This mechanism is likely to further widen the spousal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482439
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Teen Births Keep American Crime High
Hunt, Jennifer - 2003
slowly. Children of teenagers may experience difficult childhoods and hence be more likely to commit crimes subsequently. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469066
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Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from College Openings and Longitudinal Data
Currie, Janet - 2002
We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth outcomes: use of prenatal care, smoking behavior,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469345
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The Health Effects of Cesarean Delivery for Low-Risk First Births
Card, David - 2018
Cesarean delivery for low-risk pregnancies is generally associated with worse health outcomes for infants and mothers … use birth records from California, merged with hospital and emergency department (ED) visits for infants and mothers in … significant effects on mothers' hospitalizations or ED use after birth, or on subsequent fertility, but we find a ripple effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453222
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Parental Work Hours and Childhood Obesity : Evidence using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility
Courtemanche, Charles - 2017
effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the … National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked to the Child and Young Adult Supplement. We first show that mothers' work hours … increase gradually as the age of the youngest child rises, whereas mothers' spouses' work hours exhibit a discontinuous jump at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455305
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Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Skills in Rural China
Leight, Jessica - 2016
education; less educated mothers appear to reinforce differences in non-cognitive skills between their children, while more … to catch-up in non-cognitive skills over time for children of more educated mothers … in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456442
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Does grief transfer across generations? In-utero deaths and child outcomes
Black, Sandra - 2014
two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies--augmented with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458685