Jennifer March Augustine
Biographic Data
| ID | 127384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer March Augustine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer March |
| FAMILY NAME | Augustine |
| SIGNATURE | AUGUSTINE J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1446-8723 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 226 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Who Supports the Ideal Worker Norm? Group Differences and Consequences of Remote Work
Although the COVID-19 pandemic spurred a shift toward remote work, the ideal worker norm, centered on constant availability and physical presence, remains deeply entrenched in U.S. culture. This study examines two unresolved questions regarding the ideal worker norm in the post-pandemic context: how support for the ideal worker norm varies across groups with differing levels of decision-making authority (e.g., age, education, sex, and managerial …
Making Holiday Magic: Mothers’ Triple Shift
Kate Prickett and Jennifer Augustine on a maternal Third Shift
Gender Norms in Transition? Parents' Housework and Childcare Time in the Covid ‐19 Era
Objective We examined whether gender disparities in time spent in childcare and housework in the years after the start of the pandemic increased, decreased, or returned to pre‐pandemic levels. Background At the start of the COVID‐19 pandemic, parents experienced increased time in unpaid labor. Many scholars argued that this increase signaled a return to traditionalism. Others suggested there was potential for greater egalitarianism. Still, others…
The Parental Happiness Gap Before and After the Start of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Scholarship on the “parental wellbeing gap” finds that while parents had tended to report lower levels of subjective wellbeing than non-parents, the parental wellbeing gap had narrowed or disappeared altogether in more recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, presented unprecedented challenges to parents that may have resulted in a widening of this gap once again. This project aims to examine this possibility by drawing on two waves of data …
Parents' Access to Flexible Work Arrangements and Time in Active Caregiving Activities
Greater access to flexible work arrangements is considered a solution to many working parents' challenges balancing the demands of work and family, yet it remains unclear whether such arrangements are associated with parents' time in the active caregiving activities linked to children's development and parents' notions of quality time. We examine this question using data from the American Time Use Survey and Leave and Job Flexibilities Module (20…
Exploring Education Differences in the Parental Well-Being Gap
Increasing evidence suggests that raising minor children is a 'mixed bag' of emotions. Parents with minor children report more positive emotions, but also more negative emotions than adults without children. Little attention, however, has been paid to how this mixed bag varies by one's education level: a key socioeconomic indicator connected to family life and well-being. Drawing on data from the American Time Use Survey Subjective Well-being Mod…
Black-White Differences in Parental Happiness
Lower levels of happiness among Blacks compared with Whites are well documented, as are lower levels of happiness among parents compared with nonparents. Yet it remains unclear whether the parenting happiness gap is larger among Blacks compared with Whites. Drawing on the General Social Survey (2010-2018), the authors investigate this question. The authors find that White mothers reported less happiness compared with their White female nonparent …
Gender Disparities in Increased Parenting Time During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Research Note
Public health measures aimed at curbing the transmission of COVID-19 increased parenting responsibilities during the early stages of the pandemic. This research note examines time-use data from the American Time Use Surveys to provide several fresh insights as to how mothers took on a disproportionate share of this responsibility compared to fathers during this period. First, the gender gap in total parenting time narrowed by 18%. Meanwhile, the …
Trends in Mothers' Parenting Time by Education and Work From 2003 to 2017
Scholars have been increasingly concerned about the rise in “intensive mothering” and its implications for the well-being of children and women and for inequality more broadly. These concerns, however, reflect a key assumption: that socioeconomic disparities in mothers' parenting time observed in earlier eras have continued to grow. Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) from 2003–2005 and 2015–2017 (n = 13,755), we test this assumption by exa…
Mothers' Out-of-Sequence Postsecondary Education and Their Health and Health Behaviors
Ample research suggests that the links between higher education and heath are robust and growing in strength. This research, however, tends to assume education was completed prior to assuming other adult roles. Importantly, the life course framework raises the question of whether 'out-of-sequence' college completion conveys similar health returns. I investigate this question among a population for whom out-of-sequence schooling has grown more com…
Concentrated Poverty in U.S. Schools and Adolescents’ Risk of Being Overweight
The economic segregation of U.S. schools undermines the academic performance of students, particularly students from low-income families who are often concentrated in high-poverty schools. Yet it also fuels the reproduction of inequality by harming their physical health. Integrating research on school effects with social psychological and ecological theories on how local contexts shape life course outcomes, we examined a conceptual model linking …
Unpacking the Parenting Well-Being Gap: The Role of Dynamic Features of Daily Life across Broader Social Contexts
Although public debate ensues over whether parents or nonparents have higher levels of emotional well-being, scholars suggest that being a parent is associated with a mixed bag of emotions. Drawing on the American Time Use Survey for the years 2010, 2012, and 2013 and unique measures of subjective well-being that capture positive and negative emotions linked to daily activities, we “unpack” this mixed bag. We do so by examining contextual variati…
Can Increased Educational Attainment Among Lower-Educated Mothers Reduce Inequalities in Children’s Skill Development
A rich tradition of stratification research has established a robust link between mothers’ education and the skills in children that forecast children’s own mobility. Yet, this research has failed to consider that many U.S. women are now completing their education after having children. Such a trend raises questions about whether increases in mothers’ educational attainment can improve their children’s skill development and whether these gains ar…
Gender Disparities in Parenting Time Across Activities, Child Ages, and Educational Groups
Although gender gaps in parenting time endure for parents of young children, and in physical and developmental care, men's changing attitudes toward egalitarian gender roles suggest that gender disparities in parenting time may have closed in some contexts: particularly, in other shared activities with children, when children are school aged or older, and among higher educated parents. We investigate these possibilities using weekday time diary d…
Doing It All? Mothers' College Enrollment, Time Use, and Affective Well-being
The rising share of women in college with dependent children and growing emphasis on two-generation policies for reducing socioeconomic inequality have galvanized research aimed at determining whether mothers' increased education can improve their and their children's well-being. Yet as part of this effort, scholars have overlooked signs that mothers' college enrollment may not be unequivocally good for families. This research brief aims to bring…
Increased educational attainment among U.S. mothers and their children’s academic expectations
Health‐Related Parenting Among U.S. Families and Young Children's Physical Health
Parenting is a constellation of behaviors, yet investigations of the link between parenting and children's health typically focus on singular behaviors. Thus, patterns of health‐related parenting among U.S. families, associations between patterns and children's physical health, and the prevalence of such patterns among different sociodemographic groups remain unknown. Applying latent class analysis to the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Birth …
Associations and Intervening Mechanisms Between Family Structure and Young Children's Obesity
This study examined the links between different family structures-capturing type and stability thereof-and preschool-aged children's likelihood of being obese. We build on the limited number of studies that have pursued this topic by using a large, nationally representative sample of preschool-aged children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey-Birth Cohort ( n = 8,350) and exploring a wide range of mechanisms to explain these links. Resul…
Exploring New Life Course Patterns of Mother’s Continuing Secondary and College Education
Maternal Education and Investments in Children's Health
Maternal education differences in children's academic skills have been strongly linked to parental investment behaviors. This study extended this line of research to investigate whether these same maternal education patterns in parenting are observed among a set of parenting behaviors that are linked to young children's health. Drawing on data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (n = 5,000) and longitudinal models incorporat…
Maternal Education and the Link Between Birth Timing and Children's School Readiness
OBJECTIVE: This study explored whether mothers' education magnified the benefits of their fertility delays for their children. METHODS: Multiple-group path modeling assessed whether and why the positive association between mothers' age at first birth and children's test scores was greater for children of college educated women than children of other women. RESULTS: Older age at first birth was associated with higher math and reading test scores a…
Maternal Education and the Unequal Significance of Family Structure for Children's Early Achievement
Journal Article Maternal Education and the Unequal Significance of Family Structure for Children's Early Achievement Get access Jennifer March Augustine Jennifer March Augustine University of South Carolina Direct correspondence to Jennifer March Augustine, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Sloan College, Room 321, 911 Pickets Street, Columbia, SC 29208; Telephone: 713-743-3946; Email: [email protected]. Search for othe…
Mothers ’ Employment, Education, and Parenting
This study investigates whether mothers’ education moderates the link between their work and parenting quality, differentiating among aspects of work that may negatively and positively influence it. Data came from the National Institute of Child Health and Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development ( n = 1,345). The results revealed that part-time and higher status work were associated with increases in parenting quality for less…
Multigenerational Households and the School Readiness of Children Born to Unmarried Mothers
Following the ongoing increase in nonmarital fertility, policy makers have looked for ways to limit the disadvantages faced by children of unmarried mothers. Recent initiatives included marriage promotion and welfare-to-work programs. Yet policy might also consider the promotion of three generational households. We know little about whether multigenerational households benefit children of unwed mothers, although they are mandated for unmarried te…
Early Child Care and Illness among Preschoolers
The majority of young American children regularly spend time in nonparental care settings. Such arrangements are associated with their experiences of common childhood illnesses. Why this linkage exists, how it varies across the socioeconomic spectrum, and whether it has implications for how parents arrange care are all important theoretical and policy issues. In this study, therefore, we applied a fixed-effects design within structural equation m…
Gender Disparities in Parenting Time Across Activities, Child Ages, and Educational Groups
Although gender gaps in parenting time endure for parents of young children, and in physical and developmental care, men's changing attitudes toward egalitarian gender roles suggest that gender disparities in parenting time may have closed in some contexts: particularly, in other shared activities with children, when children are school aged or older, and among higher educated parents. We investigate these possibilities using weekday time diary d…
Maternal Education, Early Child Care and the Reproduction of Advantage
The social and human capital that educational attainment provides women enables them to better navigate their children's passages through school. In this study, we examine a key mechanism in this intergenerational process: mothers' selection of early child care. Analyses of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development revealed that maternal education was positively associated with configurations of child-care characteristics (i.e., t…
Maternal Education and the Unequal Significance of Family Structure for Children's Early Achievement
Journal Article Maternal Education and the Unequal Significance of Family Structure for Children's Early Achievement Get access Jennifer March Augustine Jennifer March Augustine University of South Carolina Direct correspondence to Jennifer March Augustine, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Sloan College, Room 321, 911 Pickets Street, Columbia, SC 29208; Telephone: 713-743-3946; Email: [email protected]. Search for othe…
Why Do Poor Men Have Children? Fertility Intentions among Low-Income Unmarried U.S. Fathers
Over the past several decades, nonmarital childbearing rates have risen sharply, especially among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. Recent research suggests that disadvantaged Americans may defer or delay marriage in part because of perceived economic barriers. Yet, childbearing is also costly. Few studies have examined low-income parents' motivations for having children in a context of socioeconomic disadvantage. This study deploys qualita…
Mothers' Depression and Educational Attainment and their Children's Academic Trajectories
In this study, we take a dynamic approach to studying the connections among mothers' education, their depression, and their children's academic trajectories during elementary school. Applying latent growth curve modeling to longitudinal data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,012), we find that maternal depression does not mediate the association between mothe…
Multigenerational Households and the School Readiness of Children Born to Unmarried Mothers
Following the ongoing increase in nonmarital fertility, policy makers have looked for ways to limit the disadvantages faced by children of unmarried mothers. Recent initiatives included marriage promotion and welfare-to-work programs. Yet policy might also consider the promotion of three generational households. We know little about whether multigenerational households benefit children of unwed mothers, although they are mandated for unmarried te…
Maternal Education and Investments in Children's Health
Maternal education differences in children's academic skills have been strongly linked to parental investment behaviors. This study extended this line of research to investigate whether these same maternal education patterns in parenting are observed among a set of parenting behaviors that are linked to young children's health. Drawing on data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (n = 5,000) and longitudinal models incorporat…
Gender Disparities in Increased Parenting Time During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Research Note
Public health measures aimed at curbing the transmission of COVID-19 increased parenting responsibilities during the early stages of the pandemic. This research note examines time-use data from the American Time Use Surveys to provide several fresh insights as to how mothers took on a disproportionate share of this responsibility compared to fathers during this period. First, the gender gap in total parenting time narrowed by 18%. Meanwhile, the …
Trends in Mothers' Parenting Time by Education and Work From 2003 to 2017
Scholars have been increasingly concerned about the rise in “intensive mothering” and its implications for the well-being of children and women and for inequality more broadly. These concerns, however, reflect a key assumption: that socioeconomic disparities in mothers' parenting time observed in earlier eras have continued to grow. Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) from 2003–2005 and 2015–2017 (n = 13,755), we test this assumption by exa…
Unpacking the Parenting Well-Being Gap: The Role of Dynamic Features of Daily Life across Broader Social Contexts
Although public debate ensues over whether parents or nonparents have higher levels of emotional well-being, scholars suggest that being a parent is associated with a mixed bag of emotions. Drawing on the American Time Use Survey for the years 2010, 2012, and 2013 and unique measures of subjective well-being that capture positive and negative emotions linked to daily activities, we “unpack” this mixed bag. We do so by examining contextual variati…
Exploring New Life Course Patterns of Mother’s Continuing Secondary and College Education
Can Increased Educational Attainment Among Lower-Educated Mothers Reduce Inequalities in Children’s Skill Development
A rich tradition of stratification research has established a robust link between mothers’ education and the skills in children that forecast children’s own mobility. Yet, this research has failed to consider that many U.S. women are now completing their education after having children. Such a trend raises questions about whether increases in mothers’ educational attainment can improve their children’s skill development and whether these gains ar…
Health‐Related Parenting Among U.S. Families and Young Children's Physical Health
Parenting is a constellation of behaviors, yet investigations of the link between parenting and children's health typically focus on singular behaviors. Thus, patterns of health‐related parenting among U.S. families, associations between patterns and children's physical health, and the prevalence of such patterns among different sociodemographic groups remain unknown. Applying latent class analysis to the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Birth …
Doing It All? Mothers' College Enrollment, Time Use, and Affective Well-being
The rising share of women in college with dependent children and growing emphasis on two-generation policies for reducing socioeconomic inequality have galvanized research aimed at determining whether mothers' increased education can improve their and their children's well-being. Yet as part of this effort, scholars have overlooked signs that mothers' college enrollment may not be unequivocally good for families. This research brief aims to bring…
Increased educational attainment among U.S. mothers and their children’s academic expectations
Maternal Education and the Link Between Birth Timing and Children's School Readiness
OBJECTIVE: This study explored whether mothers' education magnified the benefits of their fertility delays for their children. METHODS: Multiple-group path modeling assessed whether and why the positive association between mothers' age at first birth and children's test scores was greater for children of college educated women than children of other women. RESULTS: Older age at first birth was associated with higher math and reading test scores a…
Parents' Access to Flexible Work Arrangements and Time in Active Caregiving Activities
Greater access to flexible work arrangements is considered a solution to many working parents' challenges balancing the demands of work and family, yet it remains unclear whether such arrangements are associated with parents' time in the active caregiving activities linked to children's development and parents' notions of quality time. We examine this question using data from the American Time Use Survey and Leave and Job Flexibilities Module (20…
Mothers ’ Employment, Education, and Parenting
This study investigates whether mothers’ education moderates the link between their work and parenting quality, differentiating among aspects of work that may negatively and positively influence it. Data came from the National Institute of Child Health and Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development ( n = 1,345). The results revealed that part-time and higher status work were associated with increases in parenting quality for less…
Early Child Care and Illness among Preschoolers
The majority of young American children regularly spend time in nonparental care settings. Such arrangements are associated with their experiences of common childhood illnesses. Why this linkage exists, how it varies across the socioeconomic spectrum, and whether it has implications for how parents arrange care are all important theoretical and policy issues. In this study, therefore, we applied a fixed-effects design within structural equation m…
Exploring Education Differences in the Parental Well-Being Gap
Increasing evidence suggests that raising minor children is a 'mixed bag' of emotions. Parents with minor children report more positive emotions, but also more negative emotions than adults without children. Little attention, however, has been paid to how this mixed bag varies by one's education level: a key socioeconomic indicator connected to family life and well-being. Drawing on data from the American Time Use Survey Subjective Well-being Mod…
Black-White Differences in Parental Happiness
Lower levels of happiness among Blacks compared with Whites are well documented, as are lower levels of happiness among parents compared with nonparents. Yet it remains unclear whether the parenting happiness gap is larger among Blacks compared with Whites. Drawing on the General Social Survey (2010-2018), the authors investigate this question. The authors find that White mothers reported less happiness compared with their White female nonparent …
Mothers' Out-of-Sequence Postsecondary Education and Their Health and Health Behaviors
Ample research suggests that the links between higher education and heath are robust and growing in strength. This research, however, tends to assume education was completed prior to assuming other adult roles. Importantly, the life course framework raises the question of whether 'out-of-sequence' college completion conveys similar health returns. I investigate this question among a population for whom out-of-sequence schooling has grown more com…
Associations and Intervening Mechanisms Between Family Structure and Young Children's Obesity
This study examined the links between different family structures-capturing type and stability thereof-and preschool-aged children's likelihood of being obese. We build on the limited number of studies that have pursued this topic by using a large, nationally representative sample of preschool-aged children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey-Birth Cohort ( n = 8,350) and exploring a wide range of mechanisms to explain these links. Resul…
Why Do Poor Men Have Children? Fertility Intentions among Low-Income Unmarried U.S. Fathers
Over the past several decades, nonmarital childbearing rates have risen sharply, especially among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. Recent research suggests that disadvantaged Americans may defer or delay marriage in part because of perceived economic barriers. Yet, childbearing is also costly. Few studies have examined low-income parents' motivations for having children in a context of socioeconomic disadvantage. This study deploys qualita…
Maternal Education, Early Child Care and the Reproduction of Advantage
The social and human capital that educational attainment provides women enables them to better navigate their children's passages through school. In this study, we examine a key mechanism in this intergenerational process: mothers' selection of early child care. Analyses of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development revealed that maternal education was positively associated with configurations of child-care characteristics (i.e., t…
Mothers' Depression and Educational Attainment and their Children's Academic Trajectories
In this study, we take a dynamic approach to studying the connections among mothers' education, their depression, and their children's academic trajectories during elementary school. Applying latent growth curve modeling to longitudinal data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,012), we find that maternal depression does not mediate the association between mothe…
Mothers ’ Employment, Education, and Parenting
This study investigates whether mothers’ education moderates the link between their work and parenting quality, differentiating among aspects of work that may negatively and positively influence it. Data came from the National Institute of Child Health and Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development ( n = 1,345). The results revealed that part-time and higher status work were associated with increases in parenting quality for less…
Multigenerational Households and the School Readiness of Children Born to Unmarried Mothers
Following the ongoing increase in nonmarital fertility, policy makers have looked for ways to limit the disadvantages faced by children of unmarried mothers. Recent initiatives included marriage promotion and welfare-to-work programs. Yet policy might also consider the promotion of three generational households. We know little about whether multigenerational households benefit children of unwed mothers, although they are mandated for unmarried te…
Early Child Care and Illness among Preschoolers
The majority of young American children regularly spend time in nonparental care settings. Such arrangements are associated with their experiences of common childhood illnesses. Why this linkage exists, how it varies across the socioeconomic spectrum, and whether it has implications for how parents arrange care are all important theoretical and policy issues. In this study, therefore, we applied a fixed-effects design within structural equation m…
Maternal Education and the Unequal Significance of Family Structure for Children's Early Achievement
Journal Article Maternal Education and the Unequal Significance of Family Structure for Children's Early Achievement Get access Jennifer March Augustine Jennifer March Augustine University of South Carolina Direct correspondence to Jennifer March Augustine, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Sloan College, Room 321, 911 Pickets Street, Columbia, SC 29208; Telephone: 713-743-3946; Email: [email protected]. Search for othe…
Maternal Education and the Link Between Birth Timing and Children's School Readiness
OBJECTIVE: This study explored whether mothers' education magnified the benefits of their fertility delays for their children. METHODS: Multiple-group path modeling assessed whether and why the positive association between mothers' age at first birth and children's test scores was greater for children of college educated women than children of other women. RESULTS: Older age at first birth was associated with higher math and reading test scores a…
Exploring New Life Course Patterns of Mother’s Continuing Secondary and College Education
Maternal Education and Investments in Children's Health
Maternal education differences in children's academic skills have been strongly linked to parental investment behaviors. This study extended this line of research to investigate whether these same maternal education patterns in parenting are observed among a set of parenting behaviors that are linked to young children's health. Drawing on data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (n = 5,000) and longitudinal models incorporat…
Increased educational attainment among U.S. mothers and their children’s academic expectations
Health‐Related Parenting Among U.S. Families and Young Children's Physical Health
Parenting is a constellation of behaviors, yet investigations of the link between parenting and children's health typically focus on singular behaviors. Thus, patterns of health‐related parenting among U.S. families, associations between patterns and children's physical health, and the prevalence of such patterns among different sociodemographic groups remain unknown. Applying latent class analysis to the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Birth …
Associations and Intervening Mechanisms Between Family Structure and Young Children's Obesity
This study examined the links between different family structures-capturing type and stability thereof-and preschool-aged children's likelihood of being obese. We build on the limited number of studies that have pursued this topic by using a large, nationally representative sample of preschool-aged children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey-Birth Cohort ( n = 8,350) and exploring a wide range of mechanisms to explain these links. Resul…
Can Increased Educational Attainment Among Lower-Educated Mothers Reduce Inequalities in Children’s Skill Development
A rich tradition of stratification research has established a robust link between mothers’ education and the skills in children that forecast children’s own mobility. Yet, this research has failed to consider that many U.S. women are now completing their education after having children. Such a trend raises questions about whether increases in mothers’ educational attainment can improve their children’s skill development and whether these gains ar…
Gender Disparities in Parenting Time Across Activities, Child Ages, and Educational Groups
Although gender gaps in parenting time endure for parents of young children, and in physical and developmental care, men's changing attitudes toward egalitarian gender roles suggest that gender disparities in parenting time may have closed in some contexts: particularly, in other shared activities with children, when children are school aged or older, and among higher educated parents. We investigate these possibilities using weekday time diary d…
Doing It All? Mothers' College Enrollment, Time Use, and Affective Well-being
The rising share of women in college with dependent children and growing emphasis on two-generation policies for reducing socioeconomic inequality have galvanized research aimed at determining whether mothers' increased education can improve their and their children's well-being. Yet as part of this effort, scholars have overlooked signs that mothers' college enrollment may not be unequivocally good for families. This research brief aims to bring…
Concentrated Poverty in U.S. Schools and Adolescents’ Risk of Being Overweight
The economic segregation of U.S. schools undermines the academic performance of students, particularly students from low-income families who are often concentrated in high-poverty schools. Yet it also fuels the reproduction of inequality by harming their physical health. Integrating research on school effects with social psychological and ecological theories on how local contexts shape life course outcomes, we examined a conceptual model linking …
Unpacking the Parenting Well-Being Gap: The Role of Dynamic Features of Daily Life across Broader Social Contexts
Although public debate ensues over whether parents or nonparents have higher levels of emotional well-being, scholars suggest that being a parent is associated with a mixed bag of emotions. Drawing on the American Time Use Survey for the years 2010, 2012, and 2013 and unique measures of subjective well-being that capture positive and negative emotions linked to daily activities, we “unpack” this mixed bag. We do so by examining contextual variati…
Trends in Mothers' Parenting Time by Education and Work From 2003 to 2017
Scholars have been increasingly concerned about the rise in “intensive mothering” and its implications for the well-being of children and women and for inequality more broadly. These concerns, however, reflect a key assumption: that socioeconomic disparities in mothers' parenting time observed in earlier eras have continued to grow. Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) from 2003–2005 and 2015–2017 (n = 13,755), we test this assumption by exa…
Mothers' Out-of-Sequence Postsecondary Education and Their Health and Health Behaviors
Ample research suggests that the links between higher education and heath are robust and growing in strength. This research, however, tends to assume education was completed prior to assuming other adult roles. Importantly, the life course framework raises the question of whether 'out-of-sequence' college completion conveys similar health returns. I investigate this question among a population for whom out-of-sequence schooling has grown more com…
Gender Disparities in Increased Parenting Time During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Research Note
Public health measures aimed at curbing the transmission of COVID-19 increased parenting responsibilities during the early stages of the pandemic. This research note examines time-use data from the American Time Use Surveys to provide several fresh insights as to how mothers took on a disproportionate share of this responsibility compared to fathers during this period. First, the gender gap in total parenting time narrowed by 18%. Meanwhile, the …
Black-White Differences in Parental Happiness
Lower levels of happiness among Blacks compared with Whites are well documented, as are lower levels of happiness among parents compared with nonparents. Yet it remains unclear whether the parenting happiness gap is larger among Blacks compared with Whites. Drawing on the General Social Survey (2010-2018), the authors investigate this question. The authors find that White mothers reported less happiness compared with their White female nonparent …
Parents' Access to Flexible Work Arrangements and Time in Active Caregiving Activities
Greater access to flexible work arrangements is considered a solution to many working parents' challenges balancing the demands of work and family, yet it remains unclear whether such arrangements are associated with parents' time in the active caregiving activities linked to children's development and parents' notions of quality time. We examine this question using data from the American Time Use Survey and Leave and Job Flexibilities Module (20…
Exploring Education Differences in the Parental Well-Being Gap
Increasing evidence suggests that raising minor children is a 'mixed bag' of emotions. Parents with minor children report more positive emotions, but also more negative emotions than adults without children. Little attention, however, has been paid to how this mixed bag varies by one's education level: a key socioeconomic indicator connected to family life and well-being. Drawing on data from the American Time Use Survey Subjective Well-being Mod…
Making Holiday Magic: Mothers’ Triple Shift
Kate Prickett and Jennifer Augustine on a maternal Third Shift
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