TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rodgers,Yana van der Meulen
TI  - Maternal employment and child health: global issues and policy solutions 
SN  - 1847205100
AV  - HQ777.6 .R63 2011
U1  - 331.44 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA
PB  - Edward Elgar Pub.
KW  - Children of working parents
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Working mothers
KW  - Family relationships
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-207) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -