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Cassirer, Naomi Braungart-Rieker, Julie Leclere, Felicia Ziembroski, Jessica |
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Maternal Employment and Children's Behavioral and Cognitive Development Over Time Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March 2001 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Behavioral Development; Cognitive Development; Maternal Employment; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the effects of maternal employment on children's cognitive and behavioral development from preschool through adolescence. Current research offers mixed evidence as to whether maternal employment is harmful, inconsequential, or beneficial for children's outcomes, but is limited by its reliance on cross-sectional research designs to study development outcomes that are dynamic and process-oriented. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a panel study of a national sample of youth aged 14-21 in 1979. In 1986, the NLSY began collecting data on the children of female respondents, including behavioral and cognitive assessments. We use the linked child-mother data and hierarchical growth curve models to examine the effects of maternal work arrangement on children's cognitive and behavioral outcomes at initial assessment and on children's behavioral and cognitive trajectories from 1986 to 1996. |
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Cassirer, Naomi, Julie Braungart-Rieker, Felicia Leclere and Jessica Ziembroski. "Maternal Employment and Children's Behavioral and Cognitive Development Over Time." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March 2001. |