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Title: The Implications of the Expansion of Nonstandard Employment for Children's Health
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1. Lim, So-Jung
The Implications of the Expansion of Nonstandard Employment for Children's Health
Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); CESD (Depression Scale); Child Health; Children, Mental Health; Children, Well-Being; Depression (see also CESD); Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Job Characteristics; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Temperament

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Previous studies suggest that characteristics closely associated with nonstandard jobs such as low wages, lack of health insurance, and nonstandard work hours may have negative effects on children's health. However, these relationships have not yet been examined empirically. Using representative longitudinal data on children (NLSY79 Children and Young adults), this study begins to fill this gap by evaluating the extent to which parental employment status, in particular, having a nonstandard job is associated with children's physical and psychological health. The study will also evaluate the mechanisms linking nonstandard jobs of parents and children's health: low wage, lack of health insurance, parental health, and parental involvement, respectively. Considering the potential importance of selection factors and unobserved heterogeneity, I will estimate associations between parental work and children's health with different regression models including a model which controls for the prior health status and fixed-effects models which control for time-constant individual characteristics.
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Lim, So-Jung. "The Implications of the Expansion of Nonstandard Employment for Children's Health." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011.