Maternal Labor Supply and Children's Cognitive Development

Francine Blau and Adam Grossberg

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1992, vol. 74, issue 3, 474-81

Abstract: This paper analyzes the relationship between maternal labor supply and children's cognitive development using a sample of three- and four-year-old children of female respondents from the 1986 National Longitudinal Survey Youth Cohort. Maternal employment is found to have a negative impact when it occurs during the first year of the child's life and a potentially offsetting positive effect when it occurs during the second and subsequent years. The authors' findings suggest that maternal employment throughout a child's first three or four years would have no net effect on the child's cognitive ability. Copyright 1992 by MIT Press.

Date: 1992
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