Does maternal employment, while children are very young, affect their development? We
link cognitive and behavioral scores of school-aged children to mothers' employment during …

The last 20 years has seen a huge increase in employment among mothers in the first year
after giving birth in the UK. We examine whether early maternal employment has an adverse …

Background: The increasing employment of mothers of young children in the UK and the
USA is believed to affect children adversely. Maternity leave and part-time employment …

This paper uses data from the ALSPAC cohort of 12000 births to explore the effects of early
maternal employment on child cognitive and behavioural outcomes. The results indicate that …

Using a Danish data set that follows 135,000 Danish children from birth through 9th grade,
we examine the effect of maternal employment during a child's first three and first 15 years …

More mothers with young children are in paid work than in the past. There is a long-running
debate on possible negative effects of maternal employment on child development. For the …

This study assessed the links between early maternal employment and children's later
academic and behavioral skills in Australia and the United Kingdom. Using representative …

We investigated the effects of early maternal employment on children's cognitive outcomes,
using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth on 1,872 children who can be …

This article explores the association between mothers' involvement in paid employment
when their children are young and their later employment prospects. Using 17 waves of the …

This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to explore links
between mothers' returns to work within 12 weeks of giving birth and health and …