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Title: Far Beyond the First Three Years: Parental Employment and Problem Behavior in Early Adolescence
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Romich, Jennifer L. |
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Far Beyond the First Three Years: Parental Employment and Problem Behavior in Early Adolescence Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 2001 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Birth Order; Household Structure; Marital Status; Maternal Employment; Modeling Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper looks at the relationship between parents' amount of work and child behavior for children ages 10-15. Emphasis is placed on quantity of time spent at work and instrumental, as opposed to emotional, ways that work can affect children's lives. Time spent at work is hypothesized to decrease parental availability for childrearing and monitoring, leading to increases in children's problem and deviant behavior. Linking parental employment with child outcomes requires a model of how employment can affect children and careful methodological consideration of unobservable characteristics and parental choice. I outline issues involved in modeling the relationship between parental employment and children's behavior. Using nonexperimental longitudinal data, I describe the relationship and compare models estimating the effects of employment hours. |
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Romich, Jennifer L. "Far Beyond the First Three Years: Parental Employment and Problem Behavior in Early Adolescence." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 2001. |