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Maternal employment and the well-being of children living with a lone mother in Scotland

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Date
18/12/2020
Author
Fiori, Francesca
Keywords
Child well-being
Lone mothers
Maternal employment
Scotland
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
HM Sociology
DAS
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
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Abstract
Background : Previous research has shown that children who do not live with both of their parents fare worse on a variety of outcomes. However, less is known about the heterogeneity of children’s socioeconomic context and the factors that contribute to the negative effect of family structure. Objective : This study examines whether, under which circumstances, and through which mechanisms maternal employment influences the socioemotional well-being of children living with a lone mother in Scotland. Methods : The study uses longitudinal data from Growing Up in Scotland to follow a sub-sample of children living with lone mothers (N = 918). It applies Inverse Probability Weighting to estimate the effect of maternal employment when the child is aged 3 on children’s socioemotional well-being at age 5, net of selection effects; and the KHB decomposition method to assess the mediating role of household income and maternal well-being. Results : Children of working lone mothers are less at risk of having severe socioemotional problems, particularly if their mothers work in medium–high occupational positions. Higher levels of household income and the greater psychological well-being of working mothers partly explain the positive effect of maternal employment. Contribution : This study enhances understanding of the factors associated with the socioemotional well-being of children living with a lone mother by providing a detailed analysis of the role of maternal employment.
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Fiori , F 2020 , ' Maternal employment and the well-being of children living with a lone mother in Scotland ' , Demographic Research , vol. 43 , 57 , pp. 1685-1738 . https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2020.43.57
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Demographic Research
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2020.43.57
ISSN
1435-9871
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2020 Francesca Fiori. This open-access work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany (CC BY 3.0 DE), which permits use, reproduction, and distribution in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are given credit. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/legalcode.
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Author gratefully acknowledges the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which funded the Understanding Inequalities project through which this research was conducted (Grant Reference ES/P009301/1).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/21313

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