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Jacob, Marita ORCID: 0000-0002-2674-568X and Kuehhirt, Michael (2021). Mothers' employment and child behaviour: new evidence for Scotland. Longitud. Life Course Stud., 12 (4). S. 551 - 572. BRISTOL: BRISTOL UNIV PRESS & POLICY PRESS. ISSN 1757-9597

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Abstract

Given increasing maternal labour-market participation in many European countries, there is an ongoing scientific and public debate on the potential consequences for children's development. Previous research has used both cross-sectional measures of maternal employment at a particular age of the child and measures capturing maternal employment history. Whereas the former approach cannot capture the cumulative impact of maternal employment on developmental outcomes, studies following the second approach have so far not accounted for the possibility that mothers may repeatedly change their labour-force participation in response to their children's development or other dynamic context factors that are themselves affecting developmental outcomes. The present study combines statistical techniques that can account for time-varying confounders with cumulative measurement of maternal employment to investigate its link with children's behavioural problems around age eight. In addition, our study explores whether the effect of maternal employment history differs by mothers' education. Using data from the Growing Up in Scotland study, we find that children's behavioural problems around age eight are the less pronounced the more years their mothers have worked full-time or part-time. However, these associations reduced in size once we adjusted for potential confounders and they do not significantly differ between mothers with and without a tertiary degree. These results suggest that the association between maternal employment history and behavioural problems around age eight is mostly driven by confounding factors such as maternal education, child health and socio-economic status.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Jacob, Marita UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2674-568X UNSPECIFIED Kuehhirt, Michael UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-573893
DOI:	10.1332/175795920X16057278409033
Journal or Publication Title:	Longitud. Life Course Stud.
Volume:	12
Number:	4
Page Range:	S. 551 - 572
Date:	2021
Publisher:	BRISTOL UNIV PRESS & POLICY PRESS
Place of Publication:	BRISTOL
ISSN:	1757-9597
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT; CONCENTRATED DISADVANTAGE; LONGITUDINAL FINDINGS; EXPOSURE; IMPACT; WORK; RISK Multiple languages Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57389