Household Choices and Child Development

By Daniela Del Boca, Christopher J. Flinn, Matthew Wiswall. Social Science Research Network, 2010

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The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show that mother's time spent with children has declined in the last decade, while the indicators of children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes have worsened. The objective of our research is to estimate a model of the cognitive development process of children nested within an otherwise standard model of household life cycle behavior. The model generates endogenous dynamic interrelationships between the child quality and employment processes in the household, which are found to be consistent with patterns observed in the data. The estimated model is used to explore the effects of schooling subsidies and employment restrictions on household welfare and child development.

Subfields: Education, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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2017-03 Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family (2012, unknown): “This learning productivity may vary across dynasties at any point in time or within dynasties across generations, creating a potentially important source of inequality and social mobility (Becker and Tomes 1979, 1986, Cunha and Heckman 2007).15 The human capital production function f(·, ·) is strict”
Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act II (2018, unknown): “Set against these generally positive findings is the paper by Del Boca, Flinn, and Wiswall (2014) which estimates a structural model based on observational data from a variety of data sets.”
The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility (2014, unknown): “(10) 65See, however Becker and Barro (1988), Gayle et al. (2013), and Del Boca et al. (2014).”
Early Maternal Time Investment and Early Child Outcomes (2016, methodology): “2 Using a small sample of children and parents from the Child Development Supplement of the PSID, Del Boca et al. (2014) estimate a structural model of cognitive child development with both maternal and paternal time inputs. They find that mother’s time is the most productive input for young childre”
The Career Costs of Children (2017, unknown): “See Del Boca, Flinn, and Wiswall (2014) for a model of child quality and parental inputs, which, however, does not consider fertility choices, savings, occupational choices, and depreciation of skills.”
Families in Macroeconomics (2016, unknown): “Del Boca et al. (2014) find that both paternal and maternal time input are essential inputs into child development.”