Weight, Mental Health, Income and Marital Satisfaction: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth

This study aimed to examine the relationship between maternal economic well-being and children’s mental health outcomes in adulthood and to consider the moderating effect of race/ethnicity. This study used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 for Children and Young Adults. The two datasets were merged, and 4224 pairs were selected for the final sample. Ordinary linear regression and logistic regression analyses were used. Poverty and lower net worth among mothers were positively associated with their children’s depression in young adulthood. Race/ethnicity moderated the relationship between maternal poverty and children’s depression. Therefore, women’s economic resources may be an important factor in the development of mental health issues among their children in young adulthood. Developing anti-poverty policies that target women may assist in reducing depressive symptoms in their children once they reach young adulthood, specifically for non-Hispanic White children.

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Effect of Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy on Offspring's Cognitive Ability: Empirical Evidence for Complete Confounding in the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth

Yearbook of Pediatrics ◽

10.1016/s0084-3954(08)70319-1 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 2008 ◽

pp. 75-77

Author(s):

J.A. Stockman

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Ability ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Maternal Smoking ◽

Longitudinal Survey ◽

National Longitudinal Survey ◽

Smoking During Pregnancy ◽

The Us ◽

Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy

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Youth and the Military Service: 1980 National Longitudinal Survey Studies of Enlistment, Intentions to Serve, Reenlistment and Labor Market Experience of Veterans and Attriters

10.21236/ada185410 ◽

1982 ◽

Author(s):

Choongsoo Kim

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Military Service ◽

Longitudinal Survey ◽

National Longitudinal Survey ◽

Labor Market Experience ◽

Market Experience ◽

The Military

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Depressive Symptom Trajectories and Early Adult Education and Employment: Comparing Longitudinal Cohorts in Canada and the United States

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18084279 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (8) ◽

pp. 4279

Author(s):

Anita Minh ◽

Ute Bültmann ◽

Sijmen A. Reijneveld ◽

Sander K. R. van Zon ◽

Christopher B. McLeod

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Depressive Symptom ◽

Adult Education ◽

The United States ◽

Longitudinal Survey ◽

National Longitudinal Survey ◽

Post Secondary ◽

High School Degree ◽

The Usa ◽

Education And Employment

Adolescent depressive symptoms are risk factors for lower education and unemployment in early adulthood. This study examines how the course of symptoms from ages 16–25 influences early adult education and employment in Canada and the USA. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (n = 2348) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 Child/Young Adult (n = 3961), four trajectories (low-stable; increasing; decreasing; and increasing then decreasing, i.e., mid-peak) were linked to five outcomes (working with a post-secondary degree; a high school degree; no degree; in school; and NEET, i.e., not in employment, education, or training). In both countries, increasing, decreasing, and mid-peak trajectories were associated with higher odds of working with low educational credentials, and/or NEET relative to low-stable trajectories. In Canada, however, all trajectories had a higher predicted probability of either being in school or working with a post-secondary degree than the other outcomes; in the USA, all trajectory groups were most likely to be working with a high school degree. Higher depressive symptom levels at various points between adolescent and adulthood are associated with working with low education and NEET in Canada and the USA, but Canadians are more likely to have better education and employment outcomes.

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Labor Market Effects of Marijuana and Cocaine Use among Young Men

ILR Review ◽

10.1177/001979399204500302 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 435-448 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

Charles A. Register ◽

Donald R. Williams

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Drug Use ◽

Longitudinal Survey ◽

National Longitudinal Survey ◽

Productivity Effect ◽

Cocaine Use ◽

Market Effects ◽

Net Productivity ◽

Using Data

Using data on marijuana and cocaine use from the 1984 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the authors examine the hypothesis that drug use reduces labor market productivity, as measured by wages. From an analysis that controls for the probability of employment and the endogeneity of drug use, they find that although long-term and on-the-job use of marijuana negatively affected wages, the net productivity effect for all marijuana users (both those who engaged in long-term or on-the-job use and those who did not) was positive. No statistically significant association was found between cocaine use and productivity.

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Trajectories of Sport Participation Among Children and Adolescents Across Different Socio-Economic Categories: Multilevel Findings From the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth

Sociology of Sport Journal ◽

10.1123/ssj.2018-0096 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 264-268

Author(s):

Tom Perks

Keyword(s):

Panel Data ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Sport Participation ◽

Economic Status ◽

Empirical Work ◽

Longitudinal Survey ◽

Children And Youth ◽

National Longitudinal Survey ◽

Socio Economic Status ◽

Over Time

Building upon prior theoretical and empirical work, this study explores the sport participation trajectories of children across different socio-economic status (SES) categories to assess the possibility of changes in the SES-sport participation relationship as children age. Using representative panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, a multilevel analysis of 4,858 children aged 6 to 9 suggests that as children age the SES effect on sport participation persists over time. However, the SES effect on sport participation appears to have relatively small predictive import compared to other factors.

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New Estimates of the Effect of Marijuana and Cocaine Use on Wages

ILR Review ◽

10.1177/001979399404700306 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 454-470 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Robert Kaestner

Keyword(s):

Drug Use ◽

Illicit Drug ◽

Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽

Illicit Drug Use ◽

Longitudinal Survey ◽

National Longitudinal Survey ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Cocaine Use ◽

Wage Effects ◽

Positive Effect

Using the 1984 and 1988 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this study provides an update of several previous cross-sectional estimates of the effect of illicit drug use on wages, as well as the first longitudinal estimates of that effect. The cross-sectional results, which are generally consistent with the surprising findings of previous research, suggest that illicit drug use has a large, positive effect on wages. The longitudinal estimates, which control for unobserved heterogeneity in the sample, are mixed: among men, the estimated wage effects of both marijuana and cocaine use are negative, but among women, the effect of cocaine use remains positive and large. Because the longitudinal model is imprecisely estimated, however, those results are inconclusive.

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