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6. Juli 2011

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: Trick or treat? – Maternal job loss and children's non-cognitive skills
Trick or treat? – Maternal job loss and children's non-cognitive skills

Termin

6. Juli 2011
12:30 - 13:30

Ort

Ferdinand-Friedensburg-Raum
DIW Berlin
Room 2.3.001
Mohrenstraße 58
10117 Berlin

Frauke Peter (SOEP)

Research on maternal employment decision and its effect on children's abilities have so far produced mixed results. This indicates that the mere association of maternal employment and child outcomes might be spurious and depending on childcare settings and other aspects of mothers' selection into employment, which in turn might also affect child outcome measures. By propensity score matching we first define mother's probability of working and in a second step we analyze involuntary job loss and its influence on children's non-cognitive skills. Research on human capital formation distinguishes between cognitive and non-cognitive skills whereby noncognitive skills have received less attention in empirical work. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we estimate maternal job loss and its effect for preschool children aged five/six and for adolescents aged seventeen. Our analyses so far show that children whose mothers experience an exogenous job loss are more likely to have socioemotional problems and are less likely to believe in self-determination in life.

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