The relationships between mothers' work pathways and physical and mental health.
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SUBMITTER: Frech A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4120870 | biostudies-literature | 2012
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The relationships between mothers' work pathways and physical and mental health.
Frech Adrianne A Damaske Sarah S
Journal of health and social behavior 20120101 4
We contribute to research on the relationships between gender, work, and health by using longitudinal, theoretically driven models of mothers' diverse work pathways and adjusting for unequal selection into these pathways. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Youth-1979 (N = 2,540), we find full-time, continuous employment following a first birth is associated with significantly better health at age 40 than part-time work, paid work interrupted by unemployment, and unpaid work in the home. Pa ...[more]
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