Maternal Employment and Children's Cognitive Ability in a Gender-Inegalitarian Society
Abstract
Maternal employment in regular full-time work is negatively associated with children's cognitive performance in Japan. The negative association is limited to the employment of mothers with a high school education or less. Mothers' nonstandard employment is unrelated to children's cognitive performance. Analyses examine children's cumulative exposure to mothers' employment. The estimation of marginal structural models facilitates causal inference.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Gender
Labor
and Family Dynamics
Work-Family Balance Challenges
Family Dynamics and Relationships
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Demography
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1179–1209
- Publication date
- 1 August 2026
- Language
- EN