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Title: The Relationships between Mothers’ Work Pathways and Physical and Mental Health
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Frech, Adrianne Damaske, Sarah |
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The Relationships between Mothers’ Work Pathways and Physical and Mental Health Journal of Health and Social Behavior 53,4 (December 2012): 396-412. Also: http://hsb.sagepub.com/content/53/4/396.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): First Birth; Health, Mental/Psychological; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Labor Force Participation; Life Course; Maternal Employment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We contribute to research on the relationships between gender, work, and health by using longitudinal, theoretically driven models of mothers’ diverse work pathways and adjusting for unequal selection into these pathways. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Youth-1979 (N = 2,540), we find full-time, continuous employment following a first birth is associated with significantly better health at age 40 than part-time work, paid work interrupted by unemployment, and unpaid work in the home. Part-time workers with little unemployment report significantly better health at age 40 than mothers experiencing persistent unemployment. These relationships remain after accounting for the unequal selection of more advantaged mothers into full-time, continuous employment, suggesting full-time workers benefit from cumulating advantages across the life course and reiterating the need to disentangle health benefits associated with work from those associated with pre-pregnancy characteristics. |
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Frech, Adrianne and Sarah Damaske. "The Relationships between Mothers’ Work Pathways and Physical and Mental Health." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 53,4 (December 2012): 396-412.
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