Maternal Work and Children's Development

• Tác giả: Maria C Lo Bue
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 305.43 Womens occupations
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2023
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 308632
• Chủ đề: 1. CHILD DEVELOPMENT; 2. GENDER EQUALITY; 3. HOUSEHOLD INCOME; 4. MATERNAL LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION; 5. MATERNAL WORK REVIEW OF EVIDENCE

Tóm tắt

Maternal work may affect children positively through increased household income, higher control of mothers over available income, and expansion of maternal information networks through work contacts and greater decision-making power of mothers as they become more economically empowered. However, maternal work may reduce maternal time spent with children. If maternal time is not substituted for time of equal quality by other caregivers, children's development may be penalized. Stress associated with work may also decrease the quality of parenting. This review summarizes causal evidence on the relationship between maternal work and children's development. The majority causal studies find positive or 0 impacts of maternal work on children's development.