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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.

Journal of Econometrics

|May 5, 2010

Summary

Parental choices in housing and employment significantly influence child development. Policies on school quality have minor effects on test scores when parental responses are considered.

Area of Science:

Child Development
Behavioral Economics
Educational Policy

Background:

Child development is influenced by various factors, including school and parental inputs.
Understanding the interplay between these inputs is crucial for effective policy.
Previous research often overlooks parental decision-making in response to environmental factors.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze the roles and interrelationships of school and parental inputs on child development.
To estimate a behavioral model of household migration and maternal employment decisions.
To assess the impact of these decisions on child outcomes over time.

Main Methods:

Specification and estimation of a behavioral model.
Integration of household decisions with child outcome data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY).

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Analysis of child outcomes over a 13-year period.

Main Results:

School quality measures' impact diminishes significantly when accounting for family location choices based on school and labor market characteristics.
The positive relationship between maternal employment and child outcomes reverses sign after controlling for endogeneity.
Parental responses to policy changes substantially moderate the effects on child test scores.

Conclusions:

Family migration and maternal employment decisions are key mediators of school input effects on child development.
Policy interventions focused solely on school quality may have limited impact due to parental adaptation.
A comprehensive approach considering parental behavior is necessary for improving child outcomes.