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TY - JOUR
T1 - The educational attainment of the children of stay-at-home mothers
T2 - evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar
AU - O'Sullivan, Vincent
AU - Mosca, Irene
AU - Wright, Robert
N1 - This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Oxford Economic Papers following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Irene Mosca, Vincent O’Sullivan, Robert E Wright, The educational attainment of the children of stay-at-home mothers: evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar, Oxford Economic Papers, 73, 2, is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/oep/article-abstract/73/2/534/5897193
PY - 2021/4/30
Y1 - 2021/4/30
N2 - The relationship between maternal employment and the educational attainment of children is examined using data from the third wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. Because maternal employment is potentially endogenous with respect to child educational attainment, instrumental variable estimation is used. In this analysis, two sets of instruments are used based on whether the mother’s employment was affected by the Marriage Bar that was in place at that time in Ireland. A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. It is found that the probability that a child completes university is between one and three percentage points lower for each additional year of maternal employment during the first 18 years of the child’s life.
AB - The relationship between maternal employment and the educational attainment of children is examined using data from the third wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. Because maternal employment is potentially endogenous with respect to child educational attainment, instrumental variable estimation is used. In this analysis, two sets of instruments are used based on whether the mother’s employment was affected by the Marriage Bar that was in place at that time in Ireland. A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. It is found that the probability that a child completes university is between one and three percentage points lower for each additional year of maternal employment during the first 18 years of the child’s life.
KW - Marriage
KW - Marital Dissolution
KW - Family Structure
KW - Domestic Abuse
KW - Economics of Gender
KW - Non-labor Discrimination
KW - General
U2 - 10.1093/oep/gpaa031
DO - 10.1093/oep/gpaa031
M3 - Journal article
VL - 73
SP - 534
EP - 560
JO - Oxford Economic Papers
JF - Oxford Economic Papers
SN - 0030-7653
IS - 2
ER -