作者：Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Shah, Manisha; Shields, Michael A.
作者单位：University of Melbourne; Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
摘要：We estimate the effect of early child development on maternal labor force participation. Mothers of poorly developing children may remain at home to care for their children. Alternatively, mothers may enter the labor force to pay for additional educational and health resources. Which action dominates is the empirical question we answer in this paper. We control for the potential endogeneity of child development by using an instrumental variables approach, uniquely exploiting exogenous variatio...
