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

Eric Bettinger, Torbjørn Hægeland and Mari Rege

No 4274, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents’ incentives to stay home with children under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using comprehensive administrative data, we estimate a difference-in-differences model which exploits differences in older siblings’ exposures to the program. We find a significant positive treatment effect on older siblings’ 10th 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.

Keywords: child development; household production; household specialization; maternal labor force participation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 H31 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Journal Article: Home with Mom: The Effects of Stay-at-Home Parents on Children's Long-Run Educational Outcomes (2014)
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