TY - JOUR
T1 - Maternal work hours and adolescents' school outcomes among low-income families in four urban counties
AU - Gennetian, Lisa A.
AU - Lopoo, Leonard M.
AU - London, Andrew S.
N1 - Funding Information:
Gennetian gratefully acknowledges funding by the William T. Grant Foundation and Grant 1 RO3 HD047034-01A1 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Many thanks to Greg Duncan, Wen-Jui Han, Aletha Huston, Virginia Knox, Pamela Morris, and Nandita Verma for comments on early drafts, to Erika Lundquist for careful data preparation and analysis, and to Francesca Longo for research assistance support. All opinions and errors are the sole responsibility of the authors. This study is part of MDRC’s Next Generation project, which examines the effects of welfare, antipoverty, and employment policies on families and children. Data for this study were collected under the auspices of MDRC’s Project on Devolution and Urban Change.
PY - 2008/2
Y1 - 2008/2
N2 - We examine how changes in maternal work hours affect adolescent children's school participation and performance outcomes using data from interviews in 1998 and 2001 with approximately 1,700 women who, in May 1995, were welfare-reliant, single mothers of adolescents living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty in Cuyahoga (Cleveland), Los Angeles, Miami-Dade, and Philadelphia counties. Analyses control for a broad array of mothers 'characteristics, including their psychological and physical health, experiences with domestic violence and substance abuse, as well as unobserved time-invariant characteristics. In fixed-effects models, we find unfavorable effects of increased maternal work hours on three of six outcomes: skipping school, performing above average, and parental contact about behavior problems. Adolescent-aged sons seem to be particularly sensitive to changes in mothers 'hours of work.
AB - We examine how changes in maternal work hours affect adolescent children's school participation and performance outcomes using data from interviews in 1998 and 2001 with approximately 1,700 women who, in May 1995, were welfare-reliant, single mothers of adolescents living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty in Cuyahoga (Cleveland), Los Angeles, Miami-Dade, and Philadelphia counties. Analyses control for a broad array of mothers 'characteristics, including their psychological and physical health, experiences with domestic violence and substance abuse, as well as unobserved time-invariant characteristics. In fixed-effects models, we find unfavorable effects of increased maternal work hours on three of six outcomes: skipping school, performing above average, and parental contact about behavior problems. Adolescent-aged sons seem to be particularly sensitive to changes in mothers 'hours of work.
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U2 - 10.1353/dem.2008.0003
DO - 10.1353/dem.2008.0003
M3 - Article
C2 - 18390290
AN - SCOPUS:44449112605
SN - 0070-3370
VL - 45
SP - 31
EP - 53
JO - Demography
JF - Demography
IS - 1
ER -