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Author: Casper, Lynne M.
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1. Bianchi, Suzanne M.
Casper, Lynne M.
King, Rosalind Berkowitz
Work, Family, Health, and Well-being
Complex Connections: A Multidisciplinary Look at Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005: pp. 297-312
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ==> Taylor & Francis
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Health; Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC); Work History

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Bibliography Citation
Bianchi, Suzanne M., Lynne M. Casper and Rosalind Berkowitz King. Work, Family, Health, and Well-being. Complex Connections: A Multidisciplinary Look at Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005: pp. 297-312.
2. Casper, Lynne M.
Hogan, Dennis P.
Family Networks in Prenatal and Postnatal Health
Social Biology 37,1-2 (Spring-Summer 1990): 84-101
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Society for the Study of Social Biology
Keyword(s): Birth Outcomes; Child Health; Children, Health Care; Family Structure; Household Composition; Maternal Employment; Mothers; Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Pre/post Natal Health Care; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Support Networks

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This paper examined the effects of kin access on prenatal health practices, birth outcome, and postnatal health practice for infants born to black and white mothers (aged 21-28 yrs) in the U.S. in 1984-86. Data were compiled from (1) the NLSY, (2) the Children of the NLSY, and (3) special kin access data files. There was no evidence supporting the notion that kin access positively affected the prenatal and postnatal health practices of young mothers. Young mothers who resided with their mothers or other adult kin, and those who are in close proximity to them, were no more likely to seek prenatal care during the first trimester or to avoid smoking or drinking during pregnancy. [APA]
Bibliography Citation
Casper, Lynne M. and Dennis P. Hogan. "Family Networks in Prenatal and Postnatal Health." Social Biology 37,1-2 (Spring-Summer 1990): 84-101.
3. Florian, Sandra M.
Casper, Lynne M.
The Impact of Fertility on Women's Work Experience: Evaluating the Motherhood Penalty among Mature Women
Presented: Chicago IL, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2015
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Fertility; Labor Force Participation; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty; Work Experience

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Since the 1970s women's labor force participation significantly increased driven by the rise in the number of mothers who remained employed. The entrance of mothers to the labor market helped reduced the gender gap in labor force participation and occupational outcomes. However, since the 1990s this progress has stalled. Women still experience a series of obstacles to combine work and family life once they become mothers. In this paper, I evaluate the extent to which fertility reduces women's work experience using fixed effects models and recent data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, NLSY 1979-2012. The results indicate that, on average, having children decreases women's work experience by nearly one year per child. However, this effect varies by parity and over the life course, increasing through ages 45-49, then it slightly decreasing but only for parities 2 and lower. The effect of parity continues increasing for higher parity orders. The results suggest that women who have 2 or fewer children are able to make up some of their lost work experience when children grow up. By ages 50-55, having 1 child is associated with 8 fewer months of work experience, and having two children with 1.1 fewer years of work experience. By contrast having 3 or more children is associated with 3.4 fewer years of work experience. Contrary to the specialization theory, being married is instead associated with increased women's work experience.
Bibliography Citation
Florian, Sandra M. and Lynne M. Casper. "The Impact of Fertility on Women's Work Experience: Evaluating the Motherhood Penalty among Mature Women." Presented: Chicago IL, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2015.