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Title: Maternal Employment and Latchkey Adolescents
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Lopoo, Leonard M. |
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Maternal Employment and Latchkey Adolescents Working Paper, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, June 2004. Also: http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/faculty/lopoo/selectedpapers/policy1.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University Keyword(s): Child Care; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parent Supervision/Monitoring; Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP); Variables, Independent - Covariate Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Social scientists who have estimated the relationship between a mother's work hours and the probability that her children self-care are often limited by cross-sectional data with a limited number of covariates. This study uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and fixed effects and difference-in-differences models to ask if maternal work hours are related to the probability of adolescent self-care. Results demonstrate that previous research may have over-estimated the magnitude of the relationship. Further, findings show that only mothers who work more than 30 hours per week are more likely to allow their adolescents to self-care. This study also examines the relationship between maternal employment and adolescent self-care among a sub-sample of low-income women, a group that has been the target of pro-work social welfare programs in the United States. Results from this sub-sample also suggest that it is only after 30 hours of maternal work in a week that the probability of self-care increases appreciably. The policy implications of these results are discussed. |
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Bibliography Citation
Lopoo, Leonard M. "Maternal Employment and Latchkey Adolescents." Working Paper, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, June 2004. |