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Maternal employment and children's outcomes: Evidence from Indonesia

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  • Ervin Dervisevic
  • Maria C. Lo Bue
  • Elizaveta Perova

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Is maternal employment beneficial or harmful for child development? Maternal employment generates income, which is needed to provide core inputs for children's health and education. However, maternal employment comes at the cost of time spent with children, which is also a critical input into children's development. The net impact is therefore theoretically ambiguous. Maternal employment, through mothers' exposure to wider social networks and greater bargaining may also be associated with how the family uses income.

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  • Ervin Dervisevic & Maria C. Lo Bue & Elizaveta Perova, 2021. "Maternal employment and children's outcomes: Evidence from Indonesia," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2021-186, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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