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Title: Trajectories of Human Capital Accumulation after Women's Transition to Motherhood in the US: Determinants and Consequences
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Zhang, Weihui |
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Trajectories of Human Capital Accumulation after Women's Transition to Motherhood in the US: Determinants and Consequences Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany, 2021 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Birthweight; Child Health; Depression (see also CESD); Gender Attitudes/Roles; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Human Capital; Motherhood; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Socioeconomic Status (SES); Vocational Training Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation intends to propose three interrelated studies that investigate the possible trajectories of human capital accumulation after women's transition to motherhood, the determinants of these trajectories, and the implications for women and their children's wellbeing. Driven by the life course perspective, the cumulative advantage and disadvantage theory, and Bourdieu's cultural framework, this dissertation uses mothers' vocational training experiences to identify distinct trajectories over time in the first study. This dissertation then investigates how mothers' cumulative training experiences affect children's well-being in the second study. Finally, the third empirical study assesses whether the latent trajectories influence women's health in later life through socioeconomic status. This dissertation project utilizes the longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort (NLSY79) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Children and Young Adults (NLSYCYA). I use latent profile analysis and multi-nominal regression with multiple imputations to explore the latent trajectories and their determinants. Furthermore, to fully exploit the longitudinal nature of data, I employ individual-specific fixed-effects models to assess the impacts of mother's cumulative vocational training on children's physical health, mental health, and cognition. Regarding the long-term effect of latent trajectories on women's health in mid-to-late life, I conduct mediation analysis to examine whether women's socioeconomic status mediates the relationship between latent trajectories and health in later life. The results of this dissertation may offer insights into how women's human capital continues to develop after the transition to motherhood and shed light on how human capital erodes or perpetuates inequalities within and between generations. |
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Zhang, Weihui. Trajectories of Human Capital Accumulation after Women's Transition to Motherhood in the US: Determinants and Consequences. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany, 2021. |