Home with Mom: The effects of stay-at-home parents on children's long-run educational outcomes

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In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that substantially 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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 739

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Analysis of Education
• Subject: Chas-for-care ; Parental time ; School performance

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bettinger, Eric ; Hægeland, Torbjørn ; Rege, Mari
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Statistics Norway, Research Department
• (where): Oslo
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/192721
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET