Maternal work conditions and child development

Christina Felfe and Amy Hsin

Economics of Education Review, 2012, vol. 31, issue 6, 1037-1057

Abstract: How do maternal work conditions, such as psychological stress and physical hazards, affect children's development? Combining data from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Occupational Information Network allows us to shed some light on this question. We employ various techniques including OLS with extensive controls, a value added approach and individual fixed effects in order to address potential endogeneity problems. Our results reveal that mothers’ exposure to work-related hazards negatively affects children's cognitive development and to work-related stress negatively affects children's behavioral development. While maternal time investments play a small but significant role in mediating these negative associations, paternal time investments neither reinforce nor compensate these associations.

Keywords: Child development; Parenting behavior; Maternal work conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J22 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2012.06.008

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