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Do children from welfare families obtain less education?
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Demography (2003) 40 (1): 151–170.
Published: 01 February 2003
...Inhoe Ku; Robert Plotnick Abstract In this study, we analyzed whether parents’ receipt of welfare affects children’s educational attainment in early adulthood, independent of its effect through changing family income. We used data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics with information on parents...
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Family structure and dependency: Early transitions to female household headship
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 February 1988
... point during adolescence are more likely to be come household heads and to go on welfare than offspring of two-parent families. Differences in the incomes of one- and two-parent families can account for up to 25 percent of the difference in offspring behaviors. None of the hypotheses, however, provides...
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Is Child Schooling A Poor Proxy for Child Quality?
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 August 1987
...Jere R. Behrman 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1987 1987 Inequality Aversion Parental Preference Child Quality Parental Welfare Poor Proxy References Arrow , K. J. ( 1971 ). A utilitarian approach to the concept of equality in public expenditure...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1791–1813.
Published: 01 December 2023
... and emotional adjustment and the material goods that parents purchase to stimulate their children's skill development. The results suggest that welfare reform did not affect the amount of time and material resources mothers devoted to cognitively stimulating activities with their young children. However...
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The foster care crisis: What caused caseloads to grow?
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 309–335.
Published: 01 May 2006
... that increases in female incarcerations and reductions in cash welfare benefits played dominant roles in explaining the growth in foster care caseloads over this period. Our results highlight the need for child welfare policies designed specifically for the children of incarcerated parents and parents who...
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The Deserving Poor, the Family, and the U.S. Welfare System
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 729–749.
Published: 06 June 2015
... system has encouraged nonmarital childbearing and the formation of single-parent families, and whether it has discouraged work. These issues are important in and of themselves but also because if family and work behaviors have been influenced by the welfare system, this could bias trends in support...
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Is Parental Divorce Homogamy Associated With a Higher Risk of Separation From Cohabitation and Marriage?
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2219–2241.
Published: 01 December 2021
... underestimating the consequences of parental divorce for demographic behavior and associated socioeconomic outcomes. Parental divorce homogamy additively increases separation risk to a greater extent in marriages than in cohabitations—even in a generous welfare state with liberal family values, such as Finland...
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The impact of welfare reform on marriage and divorce
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 213–236.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Marianne P. Bitler; Jonah B. Gelbach; Hilary W. Hoynes; Madeline Zavodny Abstract The goal of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act was to end needy parents’ dependence on governmental benefits, in part by promoting marriage. The prereform welfare system...
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Understanding racial differences in the economic costs of growing up in a single-parent family
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 75–90.
Published: 01 February 2005
... efficiently. We found that the economic costs of living with a single parent are larger for black children than for white children. Most of the discrepancy can be attributed to differences in remarriage rates, marital stability, welfare participation, and female labor supply. 15 2 2011 ©...
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Gender, Turning Points, and Boomerangs: Returning Home in Young Adulthood in Great Britain
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 257–276.
Published: 02 November 2013
..., reflecting the differential welfare support in Great Britain for single parents compared with nonresident fathers and childless young adults. Our findings highlight the need to consider the interconnections between transitions and turning points in different domains across life course. In particular, we...
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Can Family Policies Enhance Fertility? An Ex Ante Evaluation Through Factorial Survey Experiments
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Demography (2025) 62 (1): 311–334.
Published: 01 February 2025
... respondents attributed to more generous and gender-equal parental leaves in the first vignette gradually declined in the subsequent ones, whereas the opposite occurred for child benefits. In this article, we prioritize policies constituting the core of welfare-state policies related to childbearing...
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Childhood events and circumstances influencing high school completion
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Demography (1991) 28 (1): 133–157.
Published: 01 February 1991
... stresses that parents set examples for their children. Hence a parent with more education and greater earnings acts as a model to encourage similar behavior by his or her offspring. Finally, the intergenerational welfare transmission literature emphasizes the negative influence of growing up in a family...
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The Evolution of Family Complexity from the Perspective of Nonmarital Children
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 957–982.
Published: 14 June 2011
...-income mothers who eventually apply for some welfare benefit. Also, nonmarital relationships are frequently unstable, and many resident parents seek child support orders regardless of their own income level. Finally, a portion of the funding states receive from the federal government to administer...
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Diverging destinies: How children are faring under the second demographic transition
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 607–627.
Published: 01 November 2004
... of parents’ time and money, those who were born to the least-educated women are losing resources. The forces behind these changes include feminism, new birth control technologies, changes in labor market opportunities, and welfare-state policies. I contend that Americans should be concerned about the growing...
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Does developmental ecology mediate demographic influences? Significant line...
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coefficients significant at p < .05 are shown. Base model includes only variable(s) named (separate models conducted for teen parent, welfare and repeated grade, child race/ethnicity, and nativity); controls model adds controls from Table 5 , Model 2; mediated model then adds developmental ecology
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National Estimates of Cohabitation
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 615–625.
Published: 01 November 1989
.... Multivariate analysis reveals higher rates of cohabitation among women, whites, persons who did not complete high school, and those from families who received welfare or who lived in a single-parent family while growing up. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1989 1989 Divorce Rate...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 49–72.
Published: 03 February 2011
... countries leave the parental home. The result may be seen as evidence of how the potential effects of cultural norms are counter-affected by other factors, such as the facilities of the welfare state and the awkward position of migrant youth between two cultures. Considering the pathways out of home...
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Orphanhood and human capital destruction: Is there persistence into adulthood?
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 163–180.
Published: 01 February 2010
... and reinterviewed as adults in 2004. A large proportion, 19%, lost one or more parents before age 15 in this period, allowing us to assess permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. In the analysis, we control for a wide range of child and adult characteristics before orphanhood, as well as community...
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Maternal work hours and adolescents’ School outcomes among low-income families in four urban counties
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 31–53.
Published: 01 February 2008
...: Why Cities Matter to Welfare Reform . Washington, DC : Brookings Institution, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy . Allesandri S.M. ( 1992 ). Effects of Maternal Work Status in Single-Parent Families on Children’s Perception of Self and Family and School Achievement . Journal...
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Age at Arrival and Life Chances Among Childhood Immigrants
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 201–229.
Published: 04 January 2017
... on educational attainment and adult labor market outcomes by region of origin, parental education, and child gender Years of Education Employment Log Earnings Earnings Rank Professional/Managerial Occupation Social Welfare Assistance (1) (2) (3) (4) (6) (7) Panel A. By Region of Origin...
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