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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bettinger, Eric; Haegeland, Torbjorn; Rege, Mari
• 署名单位: Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Universitetet i Stavanger
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/675070
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 443-467
• 关键词: early maternal employment; IMPACT; LEAVE; care; expansions; income; cash

摘要

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children under the age of 3. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected the long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using comprehensive administrative data, we estimate a difference-in-differences model that exploits differences in older siblings' exposures to the program. We find a significant positive treatment effect on older siblings' tenth-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.