@article{ref1,
title="Maternal input choices and child cognitive development: testing for reverse causality",
journal="Applied economics letters",
year="2019",
author="Nazarov, Zafar",
volume="26",
number="20",
pages="1659-1663",
abstract="I assess whether the results of child achievement tests affect maternal employment and the child-care choices of mothers with prekindergarten children. To test this hypothesis, I use a quasi-structural approach to form approximations to the mother's employment and child-care decision rules and jointly estimate them with the child cognitive development production function and wage equation. Using a sample of single mothers from the NLSY79, I find evidence that maternal employment and child-care decisions are sensitive to past achievement scores. In particular, a mother whose child has taken the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test before entering kindergarten and whose child's standardized test score is above a certain threshold intends to use childcare more and work more part-time hours immediately after observing the child's performance on the achievement test.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1350-4851",
doi="10.1080/13504851.2019.1591588",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2019.1591588"
}