DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12777411 ISSN: 0070-3370
Maternal Employment and Children's Cognitive Ability in a Gender-Inegalitarian Society
Jia Wang, James M. RaymoHighlights
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.