Part-time work and maternal employment after the first year of life more consistently have neutral or positive associations with children’s outcomes (Baum, 2003(1681; Berger, Hill and Waldfogel, 2005|i69j; Brooks-Gunn, Han and Waldfogel, 2002(170]; Ruhm, 2004[ni]). Yet, the economic advantages of mothers entering the workforce for children’s outcomes may be isolated to early childhood: When mothers of older children and adolescents return to work, there do not appear to be benefits for children’s outcomes (Duncan, Magnuson and Votruba-Drzal, 2017(157]). These patterns of findings suggest two things.