ArticleChild development2021
Parental Job Loss and Early Child Development in the Great Recession.
Article in Child development, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Are parents as great as they think they are? A longitudinal study of parent-child perceived parenting discrepancies on adolescent depressive symptoms in U.S. families of Chinese origin.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025Article
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- COVID-19-related financial strain and adolescent mental health.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2022Article
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Abstract
The study examines whether and why parental job loss may stifle early child development, relying on cohort data from the population of children born in Ireland in 2007-2008 (N = 6,303) and followed around the time of the Great Recession (2008-2013). A novel approach to mediation analysis is deployed, testing expectations from models of family investment and family stress. Parental job loss exacerbates problem behavior at ages 3 and 5 (.05-.08 SDs), via the channels of parental income and maternal negative parenting. By depressing parental income, job loss also hampers children's verbal ability at age 3 (.03 SDs). This is tied to reduced affordability of formal childcare, highlighting a policy lever that might tame the intergenerational toll of job loss.
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