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Title: Parental Experience of Unemployment and Children's Development
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Wightman, Patrick |
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Parental Experience of Unemployment and Children's Development Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavior, Antisocial; Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Mental Health; Depression (see also CESD); Parental Influences; Unemployment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. I use the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) and the NLSY79 Children and Young Adults Survey (CNLSY) together with a difference-in-difference and fixed-effects research design to investigate the impact of parental job loss and unemployment on children's developmental trajectories. I find that children who experience parental unemployment display higher levels of antisocial and anxious/depressed behavior and that that the magnitude and duration of these responses depend on the age of the child at the time of the employment separation. I find little evidence of a long-term impact on children's cognitive development, i.e. reading and math scores. The magnitude of the association between parental earnings and these outcomes is small and earnings measures fail to mediate the observed job-loss and unemployment effects; the home environment and family relationships appear to be the more likely mechanism. |
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Wightman, Patrick. "Parental Experience of Unemployment and Children's Development." Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016. |