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Published on: September 22, 2023
Maternal Employment, Migration, and Child Development
Haiyong Liu1, Thomas A Mroz, Wilbert van der Klaauw
1Department of Economics, East Carolina University, Brewster A-439, Greenville, NC 27858.
Abstract:
We analyze the roles of and interrelationships among school inputs and parental inputs in affecting child development through the specification and estimation of a behavioral model of household migration and maternal employment decisions. We integrate information on these decisions with observations on child outcomes over a 13-year period from the NLSY. We find that the impact of our school quality measures diminish by factors of 2 to 4 after accounting for the fact that families may choose where to live in part based on school characteristics and labor market opportunities. The positive statistical relationship between child outcomes and maternal employment reverses sign and remains statistically significant after controlling for its possible endogeneity. Our estimates imply that when parental responses are taken into account, policy changes in school quality end up having only minor impacts on child test scores.
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