Home with Mom: The Effects of Stay-at-Home Parents on Children's Long-Run Educational Outcomes

Eric Bettinger, Torbjørn Haegeland and Mari Rege

Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, vol. 32, issue 3, 443 - 467

Abstract: In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children under the age of 3. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected the long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using comprehensive administrative data, we estimate a difference-in-differences model that exploits differences in older siblings' exposures to the program. We find a significant positive treatment effect on older siblings' tenth-grade GPA, and this effect seems to be largely driven by mother's reduced labor force participation and not by changes in family income or father's labor force participation.

Date: 2014
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