mothers. The data used in this paper are from the 1987 SIPP, the first SIPP panel to utilize an improved probing of child care … contribution is to provide a clear comparison between single mothers and married mothers. A third contribution of this paper is its … for married and single mothers, while increases in the price of care reduce the probability of labor force participation. …

married mothers with young children. We draw on the 1992/93 Survey of Income and Program Participation to estimate two related … to improve the child care options for mothers with young children working in nonstandard jobs. … jointly estimate the work status and child care choice decisions of mothers, we find that the standard versus nonstandard work …

The purpose of this paper is to examine work-family conflict among low-income, unmarried mothers. I examine how social …-2002. Results show that social capital reduces unmarried mothers' reports of work-family conflict, especially for low-income women …. In addition, mothers who report high levels of work-family conflict are less likely to be employed; this pattern holds …

competing interests of public and private coverage for single mothers affect these mothers' willingness to participate in the …

Basing their analysis on the American Time Use Survey, Connelly and Kimmel delve into the time use of mothers of … preteenaged children in the United States and connect their time uses with their children’s development. This leads to interesting …

investments in children may pay off for the state or local area that makes these investments. A surprisingly large proportion of …