maternal employment has a positive effect on children's academic performance in all specifications, particularly when women … contexts, and which finds no or a small negative effect of maternal employment on children's cognitive development and academic …Using a Danish data set that follows 135,000 Danish children from birth through 9th grade, we examine the effect of …

parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …

. However, this conceals wide variation: 63 percent of such children reside in families with no child care expenses and 10 …

Recent research has found that maternal employment is associated with an increased risk of childhood obesity. This … American Time Use Survey, that measure the effect of maternal employment on the mother's allocation of time to activities … their children, and playing with their children, and are more likely to purchase prepared foods. We find suggestive evidence …

women with five year olds but no younger children were more likely to be employed once kindergartens were available. The … estimated effect is large, implying that three mothers entered the labor force for every ten children enrolled in public school …. By contrast, I detect no significant labor supply response among other single women with eligible children or among …

policies aiming to increase maternal employment and those maximizing the choices available to families with young children … leave laws) foster both choice and higher levels of employment. …

Do children of employed mothers differ from other children, even before mother's (re)entry to the labor force …? Preexisting differences among children may be an alternative explanation for many apparent daycare outcome effects. Data from the …. Mothers of children with intrauterine growth retardation, birth defects, or extended hospitalization at birth began working …