Implications of Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorder for Maternal Employment: United States vs. Norway.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

A country's social welfare system may play an important role in maternal employment. This study compared the labor market participation of mothers of children within the United States (U.S.) and Norway to examine whether the child's age and severity of the ASD affected mothers' employment differently between the two countries.

Methods

The 2019 National Survey of Children's Health was used for the U.S. analysis, and the 2019 administrative register data were used for the Norwegian analysis. A logit model was used to analyze the impact of a child's age and ASD severity on maternal employment in the U.S. and Norway. We presented the results as average marginal effects obtained from the logistic regression analyses.

Results

After adjusting for mothers' sociodem

SUBMITTER: Brekke I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11420245 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature