A Participação da Mãe no Mercado de Trabalho e o Diferencial de Anos de Estudo por Gênero entre Adolescentes ^♦

Abstract

Currently, the number of children raised by working mothers is significantly higher than in previous generations. This demographic change involves shifts regarding to duration and type of childcare, which may affect children's lives. Accordingly, the objective of this research is to contribute to the debate about the effects regarding mother's labor force participation and the schooling of their children, measured by hours worked. The estimates are also performed using instrumental variables with identification strategy in order to isolate the causal effect between the decision by the mother's labor force and the schooling of their children, in which local labor market conditions are used as instruments. Among the results, it is noteworthy that the fact that the mother's worked hours decreases the children's education. Regarding the educational gender gap, mother's work is not responsible for introducing educational differentials between the sexes.

Keywords
Maternal Employment; Educational Differential between Sexes