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Author: Yarger, Jennifer
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Yarger, Jennifer Brauner-Otto, Sarah |
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Time for Work and Kids? Women’s Work Characteristics and Childbearing Expectations Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Childbearing; Expectations/Intentions; Fertility; Job Characteristics; Occupations; Occupations, Female; Self-Employed Workers; Work Hours/Schedule Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Previous research has shown that employment is an important social context affecting fertility, yet relatively little is known about how work characteristics affect fertility expectations. Using over 25 years of data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we analyzed the associations between work hours and characteristics associated with autonomy at work, including self-employment and managerial/professional occupation, and childbearing expectations among employed women ages 18-45 (N=4,229). Mothers who worked longer hours were less likely to expect more children, while mothers who were self-employed or working in managerial/professional occupations were more likely to expect more children. The work characteristics examined were not significantly associated with non-mothers' childbearing expectations. Among mothers who were self-employed or working in a managerial/professional occupation, work hours were not statistically associated with childbearing expectations, which suggests that autonomy at work may moderate the experience of time-based work-family conflict. |
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Yarger, Jennifer and Sarah Brauner-Otto. "Time for Work and Kids? Women’s Work Characteristics and Childbearing Expectations." Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017. |
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Yarger, Jennifer Brauner-Otto, Sarah |
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Women's Work Characteristics and Fertility Expectations Population Research and Policy Review 43,26 (April 2024). Also: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-024-09866-7 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Keyword(s): Childbearing; Fertility; Occupations, Female; Part-Time Work; Work Hours/Schedule Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Previous research has shown that employment is an important social context affecting fertility, yet relatively little is known about the extent to which work characteristics affect fertility expectations. Using over 25 years of data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we analyzed the associations between part-time work and characteristics associated with autonomy over working time, specifically self-employment and managerial/professional occupation, and childbearing expectations among women ages 18–45 (N = 4,415). Logistic regression models for longitudinal data reveal that work characteristics are significantly associated with fertility expectations, but that the specific nature of the relationship varies by parity. Among women with one child, those working part-time had predicted probabilities of expecting to have additional children that were 2% higher than those working full-time. In contrast, among women without any children, those working part-time had predicted probabilities that were 2% lower than those working full-time. Similar contrasting relationships by parity were found when comparing self-employed women to employees and managers/professionals to those in other occupations. Findings were consistent across racial and ethnic groups. These results suggest that different mechanisms link work characteristics to fertility plans for mothers and non-mothers, specifically that role incompatibility and work-family conflict are more salient for mothers but that financial strain is so for non-mothers. |
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Bibliography Citation
Yarger, Jennifer and Sarah Brauner-Otto. "Women's Work Characteristics and Fertility Expectations." Population Research and Policy Review 43,26 (April 2024).
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