Early Maternal Employment and Children's Academic and Behavioral Skills in Australia and the United Kingdom.

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    • Subject Terms:
      EMPLOYMENT of mothers; ACADEMIC ability; CHILD behavior; CHILDREN; REPRESENTATIVE samples; FIRST grade (Education); COGNITIVE ability; ABILITY; COGNITION; EMPLOYMENT; INTELLECT; LONGITUDINAL method; MOTHERS; SOCIOECONOMIC factors
    • Subject Terms:
      AUSTRALIA; UNITED Kingdom
    • Abstract:
      This study assessed the links between early maternal employment and children's later academic and behavioral skills in Australia and the United Kingdom. Using representative samples of children born in each country from 2000 to 2004 (Australia N = 5,093, U.K. N = 18,497), OLS regression models weighted with propensity scores assessed links between maternal employment in the 2 years after childbearing and children's skills in first grade. There were neutral associations between maternal employment and children's first-grade skills in both countries. However, there was a slight indication that more time away from parenting was negatively linked to children's behavioral functioning in Australia and employment begun between 9 and 24 months was positively linked to cognitive skills for U.K. children of low-wage mothers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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