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Direct linkMonahan, Kathryn C.; Steinberg, Laurence; Cauffman, Elizabeth – Child Development, 2013
While research suggests that working more than 20 hr weekly is associated with greater antisocial behavior among middle- and upper-class youth, some have argued that employment benefits at-risk youth and leads to desistance from crime among youthful offenders. This study investigates the relation between hours worked, school attendance, and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Antisocial Behavior, Economic Impact, Working Hours
Morrissey, Taryn W.; Dunifon, Rachel E.; Kalil, Ariel – Child Development, 2011
Previous work has shown that mothers' employment is associated with increases in children's body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight for height. Nonstandard work (working evenings or nights, weekends, or an irregular shift) may also be associated with children's BMI. This article examines the association between maternal work and children's BMI…
Descriptors: Evidence, Working Hours, Body Composition, Mothers
Duncan, Greg J.; Ziol-Guest, Kathleen M.; Kalil, Ariel – Child Development, 2010
This article assesses the consequences of poverty between a child's prenatal year and 5th birthday for several adult achievement, health, and behavior outcomes, measured as late as age 37. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1,589) and controlling for economic conditions in middle childhood and adolescence, as well as demographic…
Descriptors: Poverty, Young Children, Prenatal Influences, Health
Peer reviewedMcHale, Susan M.; Huston, Ted L. – Child Development, 1984
A longitudinal study examined the connection between mothers' and fathers' sex role orientations and employment situations and the parents' involvement in child-oriented activities. Reported are interrelations among measures of husbands' and wives' sex role orientations, association between sex role attributes and extent of participation in the…
Descriptors: Fathers, Infants, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers
Han, Wen-Jui – Child Development, 2005
This paper examined associations between mothers' work schedules and children's cognitive outcomes in the first 3 years of life for approximately 900 children from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care. Both the timing and duration of maternal nonstandard work schedules were examined. Although…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Child Health, Working Hours, Expressive Language
Huston, Aletha C.; Rosenkrantz Aronson, Stacey – Child Development, 2005
This study tested predictions from economic and developmental theories that maternal time with an infant is important for mother-child relationships and children's development, using time-use diaries for mothers of 7- to 8-month-old infants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care (N=1,053).…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Working Hours
