A5003304547- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Education Systems and Policy
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- School Choice and Performance
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Child and Adolescent Health
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Social Issues and Policies
Columbia University
2015-2024
University School
2009-2024
London School of Economics and Political Science
2003-2023
Bureau of Labor Statistics
2023
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
2022-2023
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
2023
National Bureau of Economic Research
2006-2021
University of Virginia
2011-2021
McCormick (United States)
2011-2021
Stanford University
2021
As the gender gap in pay between women and men has been narrowing, 'family gap' mothers nonmothers widening. One reason may be institutional structure United States, which emphasized equal opportunity policies but not family policies, contrast to other countries that have implemented both. The authors now evidence on links one such policy women's pay. Recent research suggests maternity leave coverage, by raising retention after childbirth, also raises levels of work experience, job tenure,
The author uses data from the 1968-1988 National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women to investigate lower wages mothers. In pooled cross-sectional models, difference and fixed-effects negative effect children on women's is not entirely explained by differences in labor market experience. He considers two alternative explanations for residual penalties associated with having : unobserved pay-relevant between mothers non-mothers, which models show do account child penalty; part-time employment,...
Attendance in U.S. preschools has risen substantially recent decades, but gaps enrollment between children from advantaged and disadvantaged families remain. Using data the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998–1999, we analyze effect participation child care early education on children’s school readiness as measured by reading math skills kindergarten first grade. We find that who attended a center or school-based preschool program year before entry perform better...
With increased numbers of women employed in their children’s first year life and with attention being paid by parents policy makers to the importance early experiences for children, establishing links that might exist between maternal employment child cognitive outcomes is more important than ever. Negative associations during at age 3 (and later ages) have been reported using data from National Longitudinal Survey Youth–Child Supplement. However, it was not known whether these findings...
In the United States and Britain, there is a “family gap” between wages of mothers other women. Differential returns to marital parental status explain 40%–50% gender gap. Another 30%–40% explained by women's lower levels work experience experience. Taking advantage “quasi experiments” in job‐protected maternity leave this article finds that women who had coverage returned after childbirth received wage premium offset negative effects children.
The authors examine black, white, and Hispanic children's differing experiences in early childhood care education explore links between these racial ethnic gaps school readiness. Children who attend center or preschool programs enter more ready to learn, but both the share of children enrolled quality they receive differ by race ethnicity. Black are likely than white children, may experience lower-quality care. much less preschool. types that also differ. Both black Head Start. Public...
<h3>Importance</h3> Child maltreatment is a risk factor for poor health throughout the life course. Existing estimates of proportion US population maltreated during childhood are based on retrospective self-reports. Records officially confirmed have been used to produce annual rather than cumulative counts individuals. <h3>Objective</h3> To estimate children with report (abuse or neglect) that was indicated substantiated by Protective Services (referred as maltreatment) 18 years age....
Abstract This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999 to 2010 and a differences‐in‐differences approach examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave‐taking by mothers following childbirth, as well subsequent labor market outcomes. We obtain robust evidence that California doubled overall use of maternity leave, increasing it an average three six weeks for new mothers—with some particularly large growth less advantaged...
This article investigates the long‐term impact of early maternal employment on children's cognitive and behavioral outcomes. Non‐Hispanic White African American children aged 3 to 4 in 1986 National Longitudinal Survey Youth were followed longitudinally see whether effects that prior studies found at age persist into school‐age years (ages 7 8) or those attenuate over time. The empirical results indicate 1st year a child's life has significant negative These ages 8 for some but not others....
This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to explore links between mothers’ returns work within 12 weeks giving birth and health developmental outcomes for their children. OLS models propensity score matching methods are utilised account selection bias. Considerable associations early children’s found suggesting causal relationships reductions in breastfeeding immunisations, as well increases externalising behaviour problems. These results generally stronger mothers...
Objective. In this article, we use data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey—Kindergarten Cohort to analyze links between preschool attendance and school readiness of children immigrants. Methods. Using Cohort, estimate multivariate regression models for effects on immigrants natives. Results. We find that whose mothers were born outside United States are less likely be enrolled in or center‐based programs than other children. raises reading math scores as much it does Attending also...
Unlike many European countries, the US has no national paternity leave policy giving fathers right to take paid time off work following birth (or adoption) of a child. Despite this, prior research suggests that do some after child is born. However, little known about determinants, circumstances or consequences paternal leave-taking. In this paper, we use first wave data from Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Birth Cohort (ECLS–B), new nationally representative panel study over 10,000...
The employment rate for mothers with young children has increased dramatically over the past 25 years. Estimating effects of maternal on children's development is challenged by selection bias and missing data endemic to most policy research. To address these issues, this study uses propensity score matching multiple imputation. authors compare outcomes across 4 patterns: no work in first 3 years postbirth, only after 1st year, part-time full-time year. Our results demonstrate small but...
Abstract The earnings of mothers make up an important, but difficult to quantify, component parental expenditures on children. This paper compares the long-term women with children, without and men. study conducts separate analyses for less educated, moderately highly educated people in eight Anglo-American, Continental European, Nordic countries. finds that, most part, these countries cluster into three groups, European group experiencing largest differentials, smallest, Anglo-American...