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- Title
The Effects of Parental Work and Maternal Nonemployment on Children's Reading and Math Achievement.
- Authors
Parcel, Toby L.; Nickoll, Rebecca A.; Dupur, Mikaela J.
- Abstract
The article investigates the effects of parental work and maternal non-employment on children's reading and math achievement. The authors build on past research and incorporate theory from researcher M.L. Kohn's work on jobs and personality and researcher J. Coleman's ideas about social capital in the family. Past studies have shown that although maternal employment status alone is insufficient to explain differences in children's cognitive achievement, it may be a contributing factor in studying high school and college outcomes, found that children of non-employed mothers fared about the same as children of the average employed mother but fared worse than children of managerial and professional women. However, previous research on the subject does not explicitly consider both employment status and work characteristics in their effects on cognition in older children. The study by the authors addresses this limitation and add to the understanding of how employment or non-employment of parents affects their children.
- Subjects
FAMILY-work relationship; EMPLOYEES; PARENT-child relationships; UNEMPLOYED women workers; CHILDREN of unemployed parents; SOCIAL capital
- Publication
Work & Occupations, 1996, Vol 23, Issue 4, p461
- ISSN
0730-8884
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0730888496023004007