Rebekah Levine Coley|Caitlin McPherran Lombardi
Does Maternal Employment Following Childbirth Support or Inhibit Low?Income Children’s Long?Term Development?
Boston College|Boston College
study assessed whether previous findings linking early maternal employment lower cognitive behavioral skills among middleclass white children generalized groups using representative sample urban lowincome predominantly african american hispanic families n 444 ordinary least squares regression propensity score matching models assessed links maternal employment 2 years childbearing childrens functioning age 7 children whose mothers employed early particularly first 8 months showed enhanced socioemotional functioning compared peers whose mothers remained nonemployed protective associations emerged parttime fulltime employment driven african american children neutral effects hispanics informal homebased child care also heightened positive links