Researchers from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the Institute of Education examined data from two cohort studies to determine whether children’s cognitive and behavourial outcomes at school are associated with their mother's employment during their first year.
Nearly two-thirds of the children in the 1970s British Cohort Study and the US 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth Child had mothers who worked during the first year of their lives.
Around 37 per cent of children in the British study had mothers who worked part-time, less than 30 hours a week, and 28 per cent had a full-time job, 30 or more hours per week.
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