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Maternal Employment: Family Structure, and Preschooler's Well-being Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Wisconsin -- Madison, 2002. DAI-A 63/11, p. 4092, May 2003 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Body Mass Index (BMI); Cognitive Development; Families, Two-Parent; Family Income; Family Structure; Maternal Employment; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Preschool Children; Siblings; Social Emotional Development; Temperament This dissertation uses the mother-child data of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to explore the impacts on preschooler's cognitive, socioemotional, and physical development of maternal work, family structure, and family income. In this dissertation, I employ sibling models to control for unobserved mother characteristics. It is found that family income is an important factor for children's cognitive development, while mother's work and family structure affect on children's socioemotional and overweight problems. The negative effects of maternal full-time work on children's cognitive well-being became statistically insignificant, once the mother's unobserved characteristics have been controlled in the sibling models. Part-time mothers are more likely to have children with negative emotions than are full-time mothers, while maternal full-time work associates with child overweight problems. Children who live with a divorced mother are more likely to feel more negative emotions than are children living with married-two-parent families. However, impacts of maternal work and income do not have interaction effects by family structures. |
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Hu, Mei-Chen. Maternal Employment: Family Structure, and Preschooler's Well-being. Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Wisconsin -- Madison, 2002. DAI-A 63/11, p. 4092, May 2003. |