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Title: The Effects of Maternal Employment on the Initiation of Adolescent Risky Behaviors
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Peng, Handie |
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The Effects of Maternal Employment on the Initiation of Adolescent Risky Behaviors Working Paper, Department of Economics, Emory University, August 2012 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Department of Economics, Emory University Keyword(s): Adolescent Sexual Activity; Age at First Intercourse; Alcohol Use; Body Mass Index (BMI); Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Drug Use; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Maternal Employment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper studies the effects of maternal employment on the initiation of adolescent risky behaviors using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youths 1979 (NLSY79) and its children and young adult supplement. I find that maternal employment after the first few years of the child’s life has a positive and significant impact on the initiation of alcohol, cigarette and marijuana consumption as well as sexual activity during adolescence. These effects remain significant when the average maternal employment over the child’s life is used as the explanatory variable. Subgroup analyses indicate that the positive and significant results appear to be driven mostly by households with higher socioeconomic status. I construct the variables about risky behavior initiation from both NLSY79 Children and NLSY79 YA. Maternal employment measures are collected from NLSY79. All the other explanatory variables come from NLSY79, NLSY79 Children, or NLSY79 YA. The time period this study covers is 1984 to 2008 with biennial availability after 1994. |
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Peng, Handie. "The Effects of Maternal Employment on the Initiation of Adolescent Risky Behaviors." Working Paper, Department of Economics, Emory University, August 2012. |