that an increase in employment opportunities for men leads to an improvement in children's cognitive achievement as …-specific employment growth on children's Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test scores and in home environment in the year of birth. We find an …

status in which women raise their children and the family context in which children are raised. We refer to family context as … the combination of womens marital status and the type of households in which children reside. We combine references to the … change empirically, we focus on women aged 25 to 29 and children aged 7 to 16. For reasons that will be displayed during the …