Household choices in fragile families and their effects on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills
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I present a structural model of labor and child-care options to analyze the impact of single mothers’ decisions on their children’s cognitive and non-cognitive development. Mothers decide on child-care arrangements and allocate their labor supply according to their preferences and constraints. I estimate the parameters of a production function of skills by applying simulation methods with data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Results indicate that maternal time is the most significant factor in the production of skills of young children. Counterfactual exercises show the importance of institutional child care on both cognitive and non-cognitive measures.
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