Staying in School
Maternal Employment and the Timing of Black and White Daughters' School Exit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2346405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Loreen T Wolfer (Rowan College of New Jersey), Loreen Wolfer (College of New Jersey), Phyllis Moen (0000-0001-5704-2824, Cornell University) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 540-560 |
| Publication date | 1996-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-513X • E-ISSN: 1552-5481 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/019251396017004006 |
| OpenAlex | W2101006950 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 31 |
Most research examining the influences of maternal employment focuses on the mother and the child at only one stage of the child's life. By contrast, this study examines how temporal and status aspects of mothers' jobs during daughters' early childhood (aged 0 to 6), preadolescence (aged 7 to 12), and adolescence (aged 13 to 18) affect a key transition: the rate that daughters leave school. The sample consists of 246 White and 188 Black daughters aged 18 to 23 in 1990, drawing on data from both mothers and daughters from the 1968-1990 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Findings suggest that part-time maternal employment during any point in childhood increases the likelihood that Black, but not White, daughters will remain in school. Maternal employment characteristics have little influence in determining whether White daughters remain in school
Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Early childhood · Life course approach · Panel Study of Income Dynamics · Preadolescence · Sociology · Demography · Early Childhood Education and Development · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Maternal work early in the lives of children and its distal associations with achievement and behavior problems
Maternal employment and adolescent development
Mom Matters
The Long-Term Effects of Early and Recent Maternal Employment on a Child's Academic Achievement
The Long-Term Effect of Childhood Residential Mobility on Educational Attainment
Parents' jobs and children's lives
Growing up with a single parent
The panel study of income dynamics
The economics of women, men and work
Women's two roles
The employed mother in America
All our kin
Maternal Labor Supply and Children's Cognitive Development
Effects of maternal employment in the two-parent family
The “Effects” of infant day care reconsidered
Adolescents and Maternal Employment
Maternal Employment
Maternal influences upon college women's attitudes toward women and work
The unsupervised child of the working mother
Effects of maternal employment and child-care arrangements on preschoolers' cognitive and behavioral outcomes
The Variable Order of Events in the Life Course
Mother's Occupational Status and Children's Schooling
Women's Educational Attainment and the Timing of Entry into Parenthood
Occupational Experience and Psychological Functioning
Parents' Jobs and Children's Lives
Determining Children's Home Environments
The Effects of Dual-Career Families on Adolescents' Sex-Role Attitudes, Work and Family Plans, and Choices of Important Others
Sex-Differentiated Patterns of Intergenerational Occupational Mobility
Job Conditions and Personality
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2010 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |