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Maternal Working Hours And The Well-Being Of Adolescent Children, Silvia Mendolia
Maternal Working Hours And The Well-Being Of Adolescent Children, Silvia Mendolia
Faculty of Business - Economics Working Papers
This study investigates how maternal working hours are related to various outcomes in children aged 11–15 using a sample of mothers and adolescents in the British Household Panel Survey. Research that examines the effects of maternal employment on children has been motivated by the rapid increase of female participation rates in the labour market and increased shares of children living in female-headed or single-mother households. The existing literature on this issue is very limited, mostly based on American data, and provides conflicting results. Fixed effects have been used in the present analysis to control for characteristics of children and families …