Citation

Gordon RA, Kaestner R, Korenman S. Demography 2007; 44(2): 307-333.

Affiliation

Institute of Government and Public Affairs and Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 525 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Population Association of America, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

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PMID

17583307

Abstract

This article presents estimates of effects of maternal paid work and nonmaternal child care on injuries and infectious disease for children aged 12 to 36 months. Mother-child fixed-effects estimates are obtained by using data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care. Estimates indicate that maternal employment itself has no statistically significant adverse effects on the incidence of infectious disease and injury. However greater time spent by children in center-based care is associated with increased rates of respiratory problems for children aged 12 to 36 months and increased rates of ear infections for children aged 12 to 24 months.

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