Does mother's employment conflict with child development? Multilevel analysis of British mothers born in 1958

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 665-692

  Verropoulou, Georgia ^a   Joshi, Heather ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child development; Intergenerational transmission; Maternal employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349139451     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-007-0157-4     Document Type: Article

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