Kate C Prickett
Biographic Data
| ID | 127385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate C Prickett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate C |
| FAMILY NAME | Prickett |
| SIGNATURE | PRICKETT K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3827-5013 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Making Holiday Magic
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…
Mothers' work conditions, income, and parenting of young children
Employment Resources and the Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Young Children
This study explored resources from paid employment that could promote women's health during a vulnerable period of motherhood (raising young children). Following theoretical perspectives on work-family interplay and stress, it tested two sets of hypotheses by applying cross-lagged modeling techniques to nationally representative data on mothers from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort ( n = 7450) and occupational conditions from t…
Gender Disparities in Increased Parenting Time During the Covid-19 Pandemic
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’ Job Loss and Their Sensitivity to Young Children’s Development
As the economy diversifies and stratifies, more mothers of young children experience job instability. To advance understanding of the implications of this trend, this study examines the role of job instability in maternal sensitivity, an important component of child development, during their children’s first 3 years of life. Structural equation models with longitudinal multimethod data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Developmen…
Firearm Ownership in High-Conflict Families
Relationship Conflict, Work Conditions, and the Health of Mothers With Young Children
Past research has shown that marital conflict is associated with poorer health among women and that new children come with declines in relationship quality and increased stress. The primary aim of this study was to explore how these two patterns converge-and what might buffer the risks of both to women's health. We do so by examining the potential for paid work, more often thought of as a stressor for women managing family roles and relationships…
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…
Nonstandard Work Schedules, Family Dynamics, and Mother-Child Interactions During Early Childhood
The rising number of parents who work nonstandard schedules has led to a growing body of research concerned with what this trend means for children. The negative outcomes for children of parents who work nonstandard schedules are thought to arise from the disruptions these schedules place on family life, and thus, the types of parenting that support their children's development, particularly when children are young. Using a nationally representat…
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…
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 …
An Update on Identifying Same-Sex Couples in the American Time Use Survey
Our study "A Research Note on Time with Children in Different-and Same-Sex Two-Parent Families" This update informs readers about the identification of same-sex couples in the ATUS
Instability in Parent–Child Coresidence and Adolescent Development in Urban South Africa
There is widespread recognition of the importance of family stability for child development. South Africa presents an interesting context in which to study the consequences of family instability because of the traditionally fluid nature of household composition due to labor migration, child fostering, and non‐marital fertility. More recently, the HIV pandemic has added another source of instability. Within South Africa, however, patterns of insta…
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…
A Research Note on Time With Children in Different- and Same-Sex Two-Parent Families
Public debate on same-sex marriage often focuses on the disadvantages that children raised by same-sex couples may face. On one hand, little evidence suggests any difference in the outcomes of children raised by same-sex parents and different-sex parents. On the other hand, most studies are limited by problems of sample selection and size, and few directly measure the parenting practices thought to influence child development. This research note …
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…
Family Process Correlates of Firearm Ownership and Firearm Storage Among Families with Young Children
State Firearm Laws, Firearm Ownership, and Safety Practices Among Families of Preschool-Aged Children
Objectives. We investigated how state-level firearms legislation is associated with firearm ownership and storage among families with preschool-aged children. Methods. Using 2005 nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (n = 8100), we conducted multinomial regression models to examine the associations between state-level firearms legislation generally, child access prevention (CAP) firearms legislati…
Changes in Young Children’s Family Structures and Child Care Arrangements
Family structure change can disrupt the settings of children’s daily lives. Most scholarship focuses on disruption in the home environment. Moving beyond the home, this study explores the association between changes in family structure and changes in several dimensions of early child care. With longitudinal data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n = 1,298), first-difference models reveal that family structure transit…
Retirement Security for Black, Non-Hispanic White, and Mexican-Origin Women
Changing family patterns and high rates of marital instability mean that women are increasingly responsible for their own retirement security. In this study we compare private retirement coverage among pre-retirement age people using multiple years of the Current Population Survey. We find that women are less likely than men to participate in employer-sponsored retirement plans. Married women are at highest risk of lacking coverage. Minority grou…
Métodos empíricos em pesquisa do envelhecimento entre minorias
A triangulação, há muito, vem sendo empregada para validar estudos cujos resultados são alvo de críticas por basearem-se em amostras muito pequenas ou por não permitirem generalização. Com um foco especial no uso de múltiplas fontes de dados quantitativos, expandimos o uso da triangulação em um contexto sociológico, argumentando que não só a sociologia é um campo apto ao uso da combinação de diferentes bases de dados, mas que esta é uma ferrament…
The New Health Care Law
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…
A Research Note on Time With Children in Different- and Same-Sex Two-Parent Families
Public debate on same-sex marriage often focuses on the disadvantages that children raised by same-sex couples may face. On one hand, little evidence suggests any difference in the outcomes of children raised by same-sex parents and different-sex parents. On the other hand, most studies are limited by problems of sample selection and size, and few directly measure the parenting practices thought to influence child development. This research note …
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
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…
Nonstandard Work Schedules, Family Dynamics, and Mother-Child Interactions During Early Childhood
The rising number of parents who work nonstandard schedules has led to a growing body of research concerned with what this trend means for children. The negative outcomes for children of parents who work nonstandard schedules are thought to arise from the disruptions these schedules place on family life, and thus, the types of parenting that support their children's development, particularly when children are young. Using a nationally representat…
Instability in Parent–Child Coresidence and Adolescent Development in Urban South Africa
There is widespread recognition of the importance of family stability for child development. South Africa presents an interesting context in which to study the consequences of family instability because of the traditionally fluid nature of household composition due to labor migration, child fostering, and non‐marital fertility. More recently, the HIV pandemic has added another source of instability. Within South Africa, however, patterns of insta…
Changes in Young Children’s Family Structures and Child Care Arrangements
Family structure change can disrupt the settings of children’s daily lives. Most scholarship focuses on disruption in the home environment. Moving beyond the home, this study explores the association between changes in family structure and changes in several dimensions of early child care. With longitudinal data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n = 1,298), first-difference models reveal that family structure transit…
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…
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…
Firearm Ownership in High-Conflict Families
State Firearm Laws, Firearm Ownership, and Safety Practices Among Families of Preschool-Aged Children
Objectives. We investigated how state-level firearms legislation is associated with firearm ownership and storage among families with preschool-aged children. Methods. Using 2005 nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (n = 8100), we conducted multinomial regression models to examine the associations between state-level firearms legislation generally, child access prevention (CAP) firearms legislati…
An Update on Identifying Same-Sex Couples in the American Time Use Survey
Our study "A Research Note on Time with Children in Different-and Same-Sex Two-Parent Families" This update informs readers about the identification of same-sex couples in the ATUS
Métodos empíricos em pesquisa do envelhecimento entre minorias
A triangulação, há muito, vem sendo empregada para validar estudos cujos resultados são alvo de críticas por basearem-se em amostras muito pequenas ou por não permitirem generalização. Com um foco especial no uso de múltiplas fontes de dados quantitativos, expandimos o uso da triangulação em um contexto sociológico, argumentando que não só a sociologia é um campo apto ao uso da combinação de diferentes bases de dados, mas que esta é uma ferrament…
Employment Resources and the Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Young Children
This study explored resources from paid employment that could promote women's health during a vulnerable period of motherhood (raising young children). Following theoretical perspectives on work-family interplay and stress, it tested two sets of hypotheses by applying cross-lagged modeling techniques to nationally representative data on mothers from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort ( n = 7450) and occupational conditions from t…
Relationship Conflict, Work Conditions, and the Health of Mothers With Young Children
Past research has shown that marital conflict is associated with poorer health among women and that new children come with declines in relationship quality and increased stress. The primary aim of this study was to explore how these two patterns converge-and what might buffer the risks of both to women's health. We do so by examining the potential for paid work, more often thought of as a stressor for women managing family roles and relationships…
Retirement Security for Black, Non-Hispanic White, and Mexican-Origin Women
Changing family patterns and high rates of marital instability mean that women are increasingly responsible for their own retirement security. In this study we compare private retirement coverage among pre-retirement age people using multiple years of the Current Population Survey. We find that women are less likely than men to participate in employer-sponsored retirement plans. Married women are at highest risk of lacking coverage. Minority grou…
The New Health Care Law
Métodos empíricos em pesquisa do envelhecimento entre minorias
A triangulação, há muito, vem sendo empregada para validar estudos cujos resultados são alvo de críticas por basearem-se em amostras muito pequenas ou por não permitirem generalização. Com um foco especial no uso de múltiplas fontes de dados quantitativos, expandimos o uso da triangulação em um contexto sociológico, argumentando que não só a sociologia é um campo apto ao uso da combinação de diferentes bases de dados, mas que esta é uma ferrament…
Family Process Correlates of Firearm Ownership and Firearm Storage Among Families with Young Children
State Firearm Laws, Firearm Ownership, and Safety Practices Among Families of Preschool-Aged Children
Objectives. We investigated how state-level firearms legislation is associated with firearm ownership and storage among families with preschool-aged children. Methods. Using 2005 nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (n = 8100), we conducted multinomial regression models to examine the associations between state-level firearms legislation generally, child access prevention (CAP) firearms legislati…
Changes in Young Children’s Family Structures and Child Care Arrangements
Family structure change can disrupt the settings of children’s daily lives. Most scholarship focuses on disruption in the home environment. Moving beyond the home, this study explores the association between changes in family structure and changes in several dimensions of early child care. With longitudinal data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n = 1,298), first-difference models reveal that family structure transit…
Retirement Security for Black, Non-Hispanic White, and Mexican-Origin Women
Changing family patterns and high rates of marital instability mean that women are increasingly responsible for their own retirement security. In this study we compare private retirement coverage among pre-retirement age people using multiple years of the Current Population Survey. We find that women are less likely than men to participate in employer-sponsored retirement plans. Married women are at highest risk of lacking coverage. Minority grou…
A Research Note on Time With Children in Different- and Same-Sex Two-Parent Families
Public debate on same-sex marriage often focuses on the disadvantages that children raised by same-sex couples may face. On one hand, little evidence suggests any difference in the outcomes of children raised by same-sex parents and different-sex parents. On the other hand, most studies are limited by problems of sample selection and size, and few directly measure the parenting practices thought to influence child development. This research note …
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…
An Update on Identifying Same-Sex Couples in the American Time Use Survey
Our study "A Research Note on Time with Children in Different-and Same-Sex Two-Parent Families" This update informs readers about the identification of same-sex couples in the ATUS
Instability in Parent–Child Coresidence and Adolescent Development in Urban South Africa
There is widespread recognition of the importance of family stability for child development. South Africa presents an interesting context in which to study the consequences of family instability because of the traditionally fluid nature of household composition due to labor migration, child fostering, and non‐marital fertility. More recently, the HIV pandemic has added another source of instability. Within South Africa, however, patterns of insta…
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…
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 …
Firearm Ownership in High-Conflict Families
Relationship Conflict, Work Conditions, and the Health of Mothers With Young Children
Past research has shown that marital conflict is associated with poorer health among women and that new children come with declines in relationship quality and increased stress. The primary aim of this study was to explore how these two patterns converge-and what might buffer the risks of both to women's health. We do so by examining the potential for paid work, more often thought of as a stressor for women managing family roles and relationships…
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…
Nonstandard Work Schedules, Family Dynamics, and Mother-Child Interactions During Early Childhood
The rising number of parents who work nonstandard schedules has led to a growing body of research concerned with what this trend means for children. The negative outcomes for children of parents who work nonstandard schedules are thought to arise from the disruptions these schedules place on family life, and thus, the types of parenting that support their children's development, particularly when children are young. Using a nationally representat…
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…
Mothers’ Job Loss and Their Sensitivity to Young Children’s Development
As the economy diversifies and stratifies, more mothers of young children experience job instability. To advance understanding of the implications of this trend, this study examines the role of job instability in maternal sensitivity, an important component of child development, during their children’s first 3 years of life. Structural equation models with longitudinal multimethod data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Developmen…
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…
Gender Disparities in Increased Parenting Time During the Covid-19 Pandemic
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 …
Mothers' work conditions, income, and parenting of young children
Employment Resources and the Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Young Children
This study explored resources from paid employment that could promote women's health during a vulnerable period of motherhood (raising young children). Following theoretical perspectives on work-family interplay and stress, it tested two sets of hypotheses by applying cross-lagged modeling techniques to nationally representative data on mothers from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort ( n = 7450) and occupational conditions from t…
Making Holiday Magic
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…
Psychology (17 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Demography (11 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Longitudinal study (6 works)