abstract: 'This article evaluates the effects of maternal vs. alternative care

  providers'' time inputs on children''s cognitive development using the

  sample of single mothers in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.

  To deal with the selection problem created by unobserved heterogeneity

  of mothers and children, we develop a model of mother''s employment and

  childcare decisions. We then obtain approximate decision rules for

  employment and childcare use, and estimate these jointly with the

  child''s cognitive ability production function. To help identify our

  selection model, we take advantage of the plausibly exogenous variation

  in employment and childcare choices of single mothers generated by the

  variation in welfare rules across states and over time created by the

  1996 welfare reform legislation and earlier State waivers. (C) 2009

  Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Keane, MP (Corresponding Author), POB 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia.

  Bernal, Raquel, Univ Los Andes, Dept Econ, Bogota, Colombia.

  Bernal, Raquel, Univ Los Andes, CEDE, Bogota, Colombia.

  Keane, Michael P., Univ Technol Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia.

  Keane, Michael P., Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA.'
author: Bernal, Raquel and Keane, Michael P.
author-email: michael.keane@uts.edu.au
author_list:
- family: Bernal
  given: Raquel
- family: Keane
  given: Michael P.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.09.015
eissn: 1872-6895
files: []
issn: 0304-4076
journal: JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS
keywords: 'Child cognitive development; Childcare; Human capital; Female labor

  supply'
keywords-plus: 'WELFARE EFFECTS CONSISTENT; EARLY MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT; PARTICIPATION;

  INCOME; PRESCHOOLERS; MOTHERS; FAMILY; WORK'
language: English
month: MAY
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '41'
orcid-numbers: 'Keane, Michael P/0000-0002-3918-1377

  '
pages: 164-189
papis_id: 7192d6a5fe17f3c25dd95c2e3d3621e4
ref: Bernal2010quasistructuralestim
researcherid-numbers: 'Keane, Michael P/O-2840-2013

  Keane, Michael/R-6329-2019'
times-cited: '60'
title: Quasi-structural estimation of a model of childcare choices and child cognitive
  ability production
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000277219000012
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '24'
volume: '156'
web-of-science-categories: 'Economics; Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications;
  Social Sciences,

  Mathematical Methods'
year: '2010'