Maternal employment, migration, and child development

We analyze the roles of and interrelationships among school inputs and parental inputs in affecting child development through the specification and estimation of a behavioral model of household migration and maternal employment decisions. We integrate information on these decisions with observations...

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Published inJournal of econometrics Vol. 156; no. 1; pp. 212 - 228
Main Authors Liu, Haiyong, Mroz, Thomas A., van der Klaauw, Wilbert
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.05.2010
Elsevier
Elsevier Sequoia S.A
SeriesJournal of Econometrics
Subjects
Child development
Correlation analysis
Decision making
Economics of education
Education production function
Education production function Migration Maternal Employment School choice
Employment
Maternal Employment
Migration
School choice
Schooling
Studies
Working mothers
R23
School choice
Maternal Employment
J60
Education production function
Migration
I21
J22
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Summary:We analyze the roles of and interrelationships among school inputs and parental inputs in affecting child development through the specification and estimation of a behavioral model of household migration and maternal employment decisions. We integrate information on these decisions with observations on child outcomes over a 13-year period from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY). We find that the impact of our school quality measures diminishes by factors of 2 to 4 after accounting for the fact that families may choose where to live in part based on school characteristics and labor market opportunities. The positive statistical relationship between child outcomes and maternal employment reverses sign and remains statistically significant after controlling for its possible endogeneity. Our estimates imply that when parental responses are taken into account, policy changes in school quality end up having only minor impacts on child test scores.
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ISSN:0304-4076
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DOI:10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.09.018