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Title: Single Mothers' Employment Dynamics and Adolescent Well-Being
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Kalil, Ariel Ziol-Guest, Kathleen M. |
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Single Mothers' Employment Dynamics and Adolescent Well-Being Presented: Boston, MA, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2004 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): School Dropouts; School Progress; Self-Esteem Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Researchers have been concerned with the largely unaddressed question of the links between single mother job characteristics and child well-being. In this paper, we use data from a nationally-representative sample of single mothers whose employment experiences we observe over a two-year period during the mid-to-late 1990's. We link employment patterns to change over time in multiple measures of child well-being. Controlling for background characteristics and potential selection factors, we find that, relative to being continuously employed in a good job, teens whose mothers lose a job without re-employment show a decline in self-esteem; those whose mothers are continually employed in a bad job are more at risk for grade repetition; and those whose mothers are persistently out of the labor force or lose more than one job show an increased likelihood of school drop-out. These effects are largely unexplained by changes in family income over the two-year period. |
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Kalil, Ariel and Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest. "Single Mothers' Employment Dynamics and Adolescent Well-Being." Presented: Boston, MA, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2004. |