Arbeitspapier

Early Child Development and Parents' Labor Supply

The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the empirical literature. We combine an instrumental variable approach to account for the endogeneity of the development status with a model of non- random labor force participation to identify its impact. A one unit increase in our poor child development index reduces long-term maternal weekly hours worked by 9 hours and weekly income by 215 Australian Dollars. We provide evidence that mothers substitute working time with childcare to compensate for early disadvantages. We do not find any responds of fathers to early child development.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13531

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Thema
child development
maternal labor supply
sample selection
instrumental variables estimation
time use

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Lafférs, Lukáš
Schmidpeter, Bernhard
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Lafférs, Lukáš
  • Schmidpeter, Bernhard
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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