Trial reportJournal of health economics2010
Maternal employment and the health of low-income young children.
Trial report in Journal of health economics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Welfare-to-work interventions and their effects on the mental and physical health of lone parents and their children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Welfare-to-work interventions and their effects on the mental and physical health of lone parents and their children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Association between maternal employment and child stunting in Kenya.BMC public health · 2026Article
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- A cross-sectional study on selected child health outcomes in India: Quantifying the spatial variations and identification of the parental risk factors.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Alternative causal inference methods in population health research: Evaluating tradeoffs and triangulating evidence.SSM - population health · 2020Article
- The health status and well-being of low-resource, housing-unstable, single-parent families living in violent neighbourhoods in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Health & social care in the community · 2017Article
- Chaos as a social determinant of child health: Reciprocal associations?Social science & medicine (1982) · 2013Article
- Multiple childcare arrangements and health outcomes in early childhood.Maternal and child health journal · 2013Article
- Effects of welfare and maternal work on recommended preventive care utilization among low-income children.American journal of public health · 2012Article
- Getting a Job is Only Half the Battle: Maternal Job Loss and Child Classroom Behavior in Low-Income Families.Journal of policy analysis and management : [the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management] · 2011Article
- Meeting the Basic Needs of Children: Does Income Matter?Children and youth services review · 2010Article
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Abstract
This study examines whether maternal employment affects the health status of low-income, elementary-school-aged children using instrumental variables estimation and experimental data from a welfare-to-work program implemented in the early 1990s. Maternal report of child health status is predicted as a function of exogenous variation in maternal employment associated with random assignment to the experimental group. IV estimates show a modest adverse effect of maternal employment on children's health. Making use of data from another welfare-to-work program we propose that any adverse effect on child health may be tempered by increased family income and access to public health insurance coverage, findings with direct relevance to a number of current policy discussions. In a secondary analysis using fixed effects techniques on longitudinal survey data collected in 1998 and 2001, we find a comparable adverse effect of maternal employment on child health that supports the external validity of our primary result.
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