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Maternal Work and Children’s Development : Examining 20 Years of Evidence

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  • Lo Bue,Maria C.
  • Perova,Elizaveta
  • Reynolds,Sarah

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Maternal work may affect children positively through increased household income, highercontrol of mothers over available income, and expansion of maternal information networks through work contacts andgreater decision-making power of mothers as they become more economically empowered. However, maternal work may reducematernal 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. Thisreview summarizes causal evidence on the relationship between maternal work and children’s development. Themajority causal studies find positive or 0 impacts of maternal work on children’s development.

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  • Lo Bue,Maria C. & Perova,Elizaveta & Reynolds,Sarah, 2023. "Maternal Work and Children’s Development : Examining 20 Years of Evidence," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10305, The World Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:10305
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