Table 1.

Behavioral Changes After Motherhood: Partial Correlation Coefficients

Variable	Germany, 1960–1964	Germany, 1965–1969	Britain, 1965–1969	United States, 1955–1959	United States, 1960–1964
Actual Labor Force Experience	−.496**	−.382**	−.352**	−.152**	−.224**
Duration of Work Interruption	.707**	.727**	.503**	.439**	.493**
Number of Job Changes	−.023	−.059**	.058**	−.061**	−.028**
At reentry	.491**	.507**	.577**	.483**	.551**
Other job changes	−.165**	−.206**	−.116**	−.166**	−.175**
Tenure	−.132**	.067**	−.076**	−.012	−.027**
Level of Education	−.054**	−.063**	−.078**	−.087**	−.162**
Part-time Job	.397**	.417**	.376**	.138**	.114**
SIOPS Occupational Prestige	−.119**	−.099**	−.116**	−.069**	−.070**
Female Occupation	.026	.023	.063**	.017*	.015**
Public Sector	−.073**	−.033*	.050**	−.010	−.011*
Self-employment	.095**	.045**	.073**	.049**	.054**

Notes: Figures are partial correlation coefficients between the change in the number of children and the change in the row variable (within-transformed data), controlling for age and its square, and person and year fixed effects.

Sources: GSOEP 1984–2001; BHPS 1991–2001; and NLSY 1979–1996.

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01