Maternal employment and child health

By Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

Subjects: Working Women, Health and hygiene, Child Welfare, Family Health, Family relationships, Children of working parents, Working mothers, Mother-Child Relations, Children, health and hygiene, Health Policy, Economics

Description: As women's labor force participation has risen around the globe, scholarly and policy discourse on the ramifications of this employment growth has intensified. This book explores the links between maternal employment and child health using an international perspective that is grounded in economic theory and rigorous empirical methods. Women's labor-market activity affects child health largely because their paid work raises household income, which strengthens families' abilities to finance health care needs and nutritious food; however, time away from children could counteract some of the benefit.