Table 2.

Maternal work schedule predicting child’s aggressive behavior

	Model 1: OLS		Model 2: OLS (sample w/schedule Δ)		Model 3: Fixed Effects		Model 4: Residualized Change (DV: age 5 aggressive)
	b	se	b	se	b	se	b	se
Standard only (said no to all nonstandard)	−0.072	0.069	0.000	0.074	0.013	0.069	−0.045	0.078
Mother worked nights	0.198a**	0.065	0.196a**	0.068	0.061	0.064	0.132a†	0.074
Mother worked evenings	−0.040b	0.052	−0.026b	0.055	0.023	0.052	−0.043b	0.059
Mother worked weekends	−0.038b	0.059	−0.010b	0.061	−0.031	0.060	−0.059b	0.068
Mother worked different times each week	−0.002b	0.051	−0.005b	0.052	0.052	0.053	0.048	0.059
Mother worked 1–19 hours per week	0.041	0.089	−0.038	0.097	−0.178†	0.097	−0.075	0.099
Mother worked 20–34 hours per week	0.048	0.077	0.031	0.084	−0.055	0.077	0.012	0.088
Mother worked 35–44 hours per week	0.055	0.071	0.025	0.078	0.072	0.073	0.101	0.083
Mother worked 45+ hours per week	0.153†	0.087	0.083	0.098	0.037	0.088	0.128	0.096
Aggressive CBCL (standardized) (year 3)							0.520***	0.019
Constant	−0.181	0.172	−0.191	0.241	1.276	1.340	0.935*	0.470
Observations	4734		2651		4734		2367
Adjusted R-Squared	0.068						0.326

^***p < 0.001,

^**p < 0.01,

^*p < 0.05,

^†p < 0.10

^aNonstandard shift significantly different from standard schedule at p < .10

^bNonstandard shift significantly different from night shift at p < .10

Notes:

All models control for mother’s race, age, and education, father’s age and education, union status, household composition, child characteristics, maternal mental health, paternal incarceration, health behaviors, nativity, and public housing

Sample sizes for schedule changers vary slightly by imputation. Reported observations reflect the average number of schedule changers across imputations.

Lagged DV model predicts age 5 aggressive behavior, controlling for age 5 work schedule, demographics, and age 3 aggressive behavior