The Relation Between Maternal Work Hours and the Cognitive Development of Young School-Aged Children

Annemarie Künn-Nelen, Andries de Grip and Didier Fouarge

De Economist, 2015, vol. 163, issue 2, 203-232

Abstract: This paper analyses the relation between maternal work hours and the cognitive development of young school-going children. We find that children’s language and sorting test scores are higher when their mothers have a large part-time job or even a full-time job. We find no evidence that this can be explained by a richer home environment in terms of the number of parent–child activities provided to the child. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Intergenerational human capital investments; (Non) cognitive skills; Maternal labour supply; Home environment; D10; J13; J22; J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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