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Mother's Autonomy and Child Welfare : A New Measure and Some New Evidence
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2011
on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy and welfare outcomes. We argue that omitted variables that may drive education and autonomy are likely to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131165
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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit
Gonzalez, Libertad - 2011
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July 1, 2007. The regression discontinuity-type design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120131
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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey
Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2011
new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … effects of the education policy on the time until marriage and first-birth persist beyond the completion of compulsory …-birth. Finally, we find that the education policy was more effective in reducing early marriage than a change in the Civil Code aimed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121743
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Labor Supply Heterogeneity and Demand for Child Care of Mothers with Young Children
Apps, Patricia F. - 2012
This paper introduces a static structural model of hours of market labor supply, time spent on child care and other domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior is taken as given. The main goal is to analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097858
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Smoking Bans, Maternal Smoking and Birth Outcomes
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2012
An important externality of smoking is the harm it might cause to those who do not smoke. This paper examines the impact on birth outcomes of children of female workers who are affected by smoking bans in the workplace. Analyzing a 2004 law change in Norway that extended smoking restrictions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097859
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The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of Their Children : Evidence for Europe
Navarro, Maria - 2012
schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity framework to isolate the transmission from teen motherhood per se. Our … findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097870
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Birth Order and Child Outcomes : Does Maternal Quality Time Matter?
Monfardini, Chiara - 2012
Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are due to unequal allocation of the particular resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099745
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The Effect of Breastfeeding on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Development
Borra, Cristina - 2012
This paper uses propensity score matching methods to investigate the relationship between breastfeeding and children's cognitive and noncognitive development. We find that breastfeeding for four weeks is positively and statistically significantly associated with higher cognitive test scores, by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104046
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Maternal Gender Role Attitudes, Human Capital Investment, and Labour Supply of Sons and Daughters
Johnston, David W. - 2012
sons' education outcomes and labour supply. However, we find that mothers' attitudes are significantly correlated with sons …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104663
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The Impact of Non-Parental Child Care on Child Development : Evidence from the Summer Participation 'Dip'
Herbst, Chris M. - 2013
Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive development, few studies deal convincingly with the potential endogeneity of child care choices. Using a panel of infants and toddlers from the Birth cohort of the Early Childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089394