The relationship between maternal employment and the educational attainment of children is examined using data from the third wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. Because maternal employment is potentially endogenous with respect to child educational attainment, instrumental variable estimation is used. In this analysis, two sets of instruments are used based on whether the mother’s employment was affected by the Marriage Bar that was in place at that time in Ireland. A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. It is found that the probability that a child completes university is between one and three percentage points lower for each additional year of maternal employment during the first 18 years of the child’s life.

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全职母亲的子女的教育程度：来自爱尔兰婚姻律师协会的证据

使用来自爱尔兰纵向老龄化研究第三次浪潮的数据，检验了孕产妇就业与儿童受教育程度之间的关系。由于产妇就业可能对儿童的受教育程度具有内生性，因此使用了工具变量估计。在此分析中，根据母亲当时的职业是否受到爱尔兰当时设立的婚姻酒吧的影响，使用了两组工具。婚姻酒吧是要求从事某些工作的妇女结婚时必须辞职的要求。研究发现，在孩子生命的头18年中，每增加一年的产妇工作，孩子完成大学学习的可能性就会降低1-3个百分点。