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The educational attainment of the children of stay-at-home mothers: evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar
[Evidence from maternity leave expansions of the impact of maternal care on early child development]

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  • Irene MoscaBy
  • Vincent O’Sullivan
  • Robert E Wright

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The relationship between maternal employment and the educational attainment of children is examined using data from the third wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. Because maternal employment is potentially endogenous with respect to child educational attainment, instrumental variable estimation is used. In this analysis, two sets of instruments are used based on whether the mother’s employment was affected by the Marriage Bar that was in place at that time in Ireland. A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. It is found that the probability that a child completes university is 1–3 percentage points lower for each additional year of maternal employment during the first 18 years of the child’s life.

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  • Irene MoscaBy & Vincent O’Sullivan & Robert E Wright, 2021. "The educational attainment of the children of stay-at-home mothers: evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar [Evidence from maternity leave expansions of the impact of maternal care on early child deve," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 73(2), pages 534-560.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:oxecpp:v:73:y:2021:i:2:p:534-560.
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    JEL classification:

    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General

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