The impact of having a young child with disabilities on maternal labor supply by race and marital status

George L Wehby; Robert L Ohsfeldt

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The impact of having a young child with disabilities on maternal labor supply by race and marital status

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The impact of having a young child with disabilities on maternal labor supply by race and marital status

George L Wehby and Robert L Ohsfeldt

Journal of health and human services administration, Vol.30(3), pp.327-351

2007

PMID: 18236707

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Abstract

Data from the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey (NMIHS) with the three-year follow-up survey data were used to assess the impact of having a young child with disabilities on maternal labor supply. The oversampling of low birth-weight and African-American births in NMIHS provides a larger proportion of disabled children and a bigger sample of black mothers than available in data used in prior studies. The empirical analyses examined the impact of child disability on maternal employment participation and conditional intensity by race and marital status using alternative measures of disability based on occurrence of specific health conditions as well as activity performance and general development. Exogeneity of activity-based disability measures was tested using health conditions as instruments and instrumental variable models were used to estimate their impacts on maternal labor supply. The results indicated that activity-based measures are endogenous for black single and white married mothers. Model results suggested large reductions in likelihood of employment participation of black single as well as white single and married mothers. Work intensity of employed black single mothers was also substantially reduced by child disability. Overall, no consistent effects of child disability were observed for black married mothers.

Adult

African Americans - statistics & numerical data

Child, Preschool

Cost of Illness

Disabled Children

Employment - statistics & numerical data

European Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data

Female

Humans

Likelihood Functions

Marital Status

Mothers - statistics & numerical data

United States

Women, Working - statistics & numerical data

Details

Title: Subtitle: The impact of having a young child with disabilities on maternal labor supply by race and marital status
Creators: George L Wehby - Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, USA
Robert L Ohsfeldt
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of health and human services administration, Vol.30(3), pp.327-351
PMID: 18236707
ISSN: 1079-3739
eISSN: 2168-5509
Language: English
Date published: 2007
Academic Unit: Preventive and Community Dentistry; Health Management and Policy; Economics; Public Policy Center (Archive)
Record Identifier: 9984214663502771

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