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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2021
" adolescents. Particularly striking are the reductions in cognitive test scores and increases in excess body weight predicted by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318383
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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Self-Care
Lopoo, Leonard M. - 2011
Mounting evidence shows that self-care produces deleterious consequences for adolescents in the U.S. Since descriptive … and adolescent self-care. Findings suggest that the adolescents of mothers who work full-time spend an additional 43 … minutes per week in self-care compared to the adolescents of mothers who work part-time. Further, a standard deviation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183322
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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Risky Behavior
Aughinbaugh, Alison; Gittleman, Maury - 2011
This paper examines the impact of maternal employment during a child's first three years and during adolescence on his or her decisions to engage in a range of risky behaviors: smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, using marijuana and other drugs, engaging in sex and committing crimes. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088654
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Maternal employment and adolescent development
Ruhm, Christopher J. (contributor) - 2005
" adolescents. Particularly striking are the reductions in cognitive test scores and increases in excess body weight predicted by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003011515
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Understanding Child Outcomes : An Application to Child Abuse and Neglect
Seiglie, Carlos - 2012
Recently, there have been several empirical studies exploring the effects of abortion on child outcome by correlating the availability of abortion to a mother at the time of a child's birth. This paper presents a model that helps explain the process, as well as establish that the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197921
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Can't buy mommy's love? : universal childcare and children's long-term cognitive development
Felfe, Christina; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - 2013
What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year olds mainly crowds out maternal care? To answer this question we exploit a natural experiment framework and employ a difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690712
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The impact of teenage motherhood on the education and fertility of their children : evidence for Europe
Navarro, María; Walker, Ian - 2012
This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665567
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Does labor force participation rates of youth vary within the business cycle? : evidence from Germany and Poland
Dunsch, Sophie - 2016
Unemployment rates, especially among youth, have increased in various countries of Europe over the last years. As labor force participation rate is one key influence on unemployment, I estimate country specific coefficients for the responsiveness of the labor force participation rates to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528912
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Can't buy mommy's love? : universal childcare and children's long-term cognitive development
Felfe, Christina; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - 2012
What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year olds mainly crowds out maternal care? To answer this question we exploit a natural experiment framework and employ a difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009680996
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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey
Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2011
This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the new education policy reduces the probability of marriage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121743