Maternity Leave Length and Maternal and Child Health

产假长度与母婴健康

• 批准号: 7305833
• 负责人: PINKA CHATTERJI
• 金额: $ 2.06万
• 依托单位: CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-15 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7305833
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Behavioral; Birth; Breast Feeding; Child; Child Care; Child health care; Childbirth; Cognitive; Data; Developed Countries; Development; Developmental Therapeutics Program; Educational Background; Employment; Ethnic Origin; Face; Family; Gender; Goals; Health; Health behavior; Health behavior outcomes; Home environment; Income; Income Tax; Infant; Knowledge; Left; Length; Life; Longitudinal Studies; Low income; Marital Status; Marketing; Maternal Health; Maternal and Child Health; Maternity leave; Medical; Methods; Modeling; Mothers; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Outcome; Outcome Measure; Parenting behavior; Parents; Personal Satisfaction; Pliability; Policies; Private Sector; Public Policy; Race; Regression Analysis; Research; Route; Sample Size; Score; Social Welfare; Statutes and Laws; Taxes; Testing; Text; Time; United States; Unmarried; Visit; Week; Woman; Work; Youth; base; cohort; depressive symptoms; early childhood; interest; maternal stress; Address; Affect; Behavioral; Birth; Breast Feeding; Child; Child Care; Child health care; Childbirth; Cognitive; Data; Developed Countries; Development; Developmental Therapeutics Program; Educational Background; Employment; Ethnic Origin; Face; Family; Gender; Goals; Health; Health behavior; Health behavior outcomes; Home environment; Income; Income Tax; Infant; Knowledge; Left; Length; Life; Longitudinal Studies; Low income; Marital Status; Marketing; Maternal Health; Maternal and Child Health; Maternity leave; Medical; Methods; Modeling; Mothers; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Outcome; Outcome Measure; Parenting behavior; Parents; Personal Satisfaction; Pliability; Policies; Private Sector; Public Policy; Race; Regression Analysis; Research; Route; Sample Size; Score; Social Welfare; Statutes and Laws; Taxes; Testing; Text; Time; United States; Unmarried; Visit; Week; Woman; Work; Youth; base; cohort; depressive symptoms; early childhood; interest; maternal stress

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This study uses longitudinal data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECC) to investigate how maternity leave length, as well as the flexibility and intensity of work pursued after childbirth, affect maternal outcomes that are important to children's health and development. We focus on mothers who return to work within a year after childbirth. We will estimate the association between the length of maternity leave, the intensity and flexibility of work after childbirth, and the following outcomes measured 6, 15, 24, and 36 months after childbirth: maternal depressive symptoms; breastfeeding initiation and duration; well-child visits; parenting stress; maternal sensitivity; and parenting quality in the home. We also will investigate whether the effects of maternity leave length and work arrangements after childbirth vary by demographic sub-groups. Using SECC data, as sample size permits, we will test whether effects vary by maternal education level, marital status, income, race/ethnicity, child gender, and by whether the maternity leave was paid or unpaid. We then corroborate findings by re-estimating the models developed using the SECC with data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Birth Cohort (ECLS-B). The ECLS-B data provide sufficient sample sizes for separate analyses by marital status, by race/ethnicity, and by whether the mother receives welfare. We use multiple regression analysis along with other empirical methods, including propensity score matching methods and instrumental variables, that address the possibility that maternity leave length is correlated with unobserved factors that also affect maternal health and parenting outcomes. While previous work has focused on how maternal employment affects children's outcomes, the overarching goal of this study is to understand how maternity leave length impacts maternal outcomes that are important to child health and development. This research will contribute to our knowledge of how labor market choices and public policies that affect these choices influence the health and well being of mothers and children.

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究使用NICHD对早期儿童保育和青年发展（SECC）的纵向数据，以研究产妇休假的长度以及分娩后从事的灵活性和工作强度如何影响对儿童健康和发展至关重要的产妇。我们专注于分娩后一年内返回工作的母亲。我们将估计产假的长度，分娩后的工作强度和灵活性与分娩后的6、15、24和36个月的结局：产妇抑郁症状；母乳喂养的启动和持续时间；孩子的访问；育儿压力；母体敏感性；和家中的育儿质量。我们还将调查产假休假的长度和分娩后的工作安排的影响是否因人口统计学子群体而有所不同。使用SECC数据，作为样本量许可，我们将测试效果是否因母亲教育水平，婚姻状况，收入，种族/种族，儿童性别以及是否支付产假或未付。然后，我们通过重新估算使用SECC与儿童早期纵向研究 - 出生队列（ECLS-B）的数据开发的模型来证实发现。 ECLS-B数据提供了足够的样本量，可通过婚姻状况，种族/种族以及母亲是否获得福利来单独分析。我们使用多元回归分析以及其他经验方法，包括倾向得分匹配方法和工具变量，这些方法解决了产妇休假长度与未观察到的也影响孕产妇健康和育儿结果的可能性相关的可能性。虽然先前的工作集中在产妇就业如何影响儿童的结果，但本研究的总体目标是了解产妇休假长度如何影响对儿童健康和发展重要的产妇结果。这项研究将有助于我们了解影响这些选择的劳动力市场选择和公共政策如何影响母亲和儿童的健康和福祉。