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