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Title: Maternal Employment and Children's Cognitive Outcomes: A Latent Trajectory Model
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Greenstein, Theodore N. |
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Maternal Employment and Children's Cognitive Outcomes: A Latent Trajectory Model Presented: Anaheim, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 2001 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Maternal Employment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. To study the effects of family structure and economic circumstances on child cognitive ability, the 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, and 1994 Child Supplements to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth were used to create synthetic cohorts of children ages 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, and 11-12 years. Using these data, a multivariate latent trajectory model of the process through which maternal employment affects child cognitive ability was created and tested. Results suggest that maternal hours of employment have positive effects on child cognitive development: the intercept of the work hours trajectory has positive and statistically-significant effects on both the intercept and the slope of the cognitive ability trajectory, implying that maternal employment during the first years of schooling has positive effects on child cognitive ability, and that continued maternal employment has no effect on the trajectory of child cognitive ability. |
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Greenstein, Theodore N. "Maternal Employment and Children's Cognitive Outcomes: A Latent Trajectory Model." Presented: Anaheim, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 2001. |