Joint Center for Poverty Research
Working Papers

Marriage and Family (including parenting)

African American Adolescent Girls in Impoverished Communities: Quality of Parenting and Adolescent Outcomes
Author: Laura D. Pittman, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Abortion as Insurance
Author: Phillip Levine, Douglas Staiger

Academic and Behavioral Outcomes among the Children of Young Mothers
Author: Judith Levine, Harold Pollack, Maureen E. Comfort

Adolescents Assuming Adult Roles: Factors Associated with Teens Providing Child Care for Younger Siblings
Author: Jeffrey Capizzano

Are Cohabiting Relationships More Violent than Marriages?
Author: Catherine T. Kenney, Sara McLanahan

Can Anti-Poverty Programs Improve Family Functioning and Enhance Children's Well-Being?
Author: Aletha C. Huston, Greg Duncan, Robert Granger, Vonnie McLoyd

Child Poverty, Program Participation, and Intergenerational Coresidence:
Author: Jan E. Mutchler

Child Support and the Post-Divorce Economic Well-Being of Mothers, Fathers, and Children
Author: Judi Bartfeld

Children of incarcerated parents: Cumulative risk and children's living arrangements
Author: Elizabeth Inez Johnson, Jane Waldfogel

Comparing Father and Mother Reports of Father Involvement among Low-Income Minority Families
Author: Rebekah Levine Coley, Jodi Eileen Morris

Do Unmarried Parents' Expectations Predict Marital Transitions? Early Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study
Author: Maureen Waller, Sara McLanahan

For Richer or Poorer?
Author: Wendy Sigle-Rushton, Sara McLanahan

Fragile Families and Welfare Reform
Author: Irwin Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan, Kristen Harknett

Fragile Families and Welfare Reform: An Introduction
Author: Irwin Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan, Marta Tienda, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Games Daughters and Parents Play: Teenage Childbearing, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers
Author: Lingxin Hao, V. Joseph Hotz, Ginger Zhe Jin

Good Things Come in Threes: Single-parent Multigenerational Family Structure and Adolescent Adjustment
Author: Ariel Kalil, Thomas DeLeire

How Do Cohabiting Couples With Children Spend Their Money?
Author: Thomas DeLeire, Ariel Kalil

Marriage and Economic Incentives: Evidence from a Welfare Experiment
Author: Wei-Yin Hu

Maternal Employment, Family Processes, and Early Childhood Adjustment for Children Living in Poverty
Author: Rashmita S. Mistry

Maternal work behavior under welfare reform: How does the transition from welfare to work affect child development?
Author: Rachel Dunifon, Ariel Kalil, Sandra K. Danziger

Measuring the Effect of the EITC on Marriage Penalties and Bonuses
Author: Janet Holtzblatt, Robert Rebelein

Promises to Keep: Assessing Affective and Behavioral Qualities of Mother-Child Relationships in the New Chance Observational Study
Author: John R. Ogawa, Nancy S. Weinfield, Byron Egeland

Self Sufficiency, Parenting Adequacy, and Child Wellbeing: Lessons from New Chance, the Teenage Parent Demonstration, and LEAP
Author: Nancy Reichman, Sara McLanahan

Sexual Intercourse and Pregnancy among African American Adolescent Girls in High-Poverty Neighborhoods: The Role of Family and Perceived Community Environment
Author: Mignon R. Moore, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Shared Parenting in Fragile Families
Author: Marcia J. Carlson, Sara McLanahan

Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment
Author: V. Joseph Hotz, Susan Williams McElroy, Seth G. Sanders

The Characteristics of Mothers Separated from a Young Child
Author: Joseph Swingle

The Economic Consequences of Absent Parents
Author: Marianne E. Page, Ann Huff Stevens

The Effect of Welfare Reform on the Family: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Author: Frank F. Furstenberg

The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Nonmarital and Marital Births: Does It Differ by Racial and Age Groups?
Author: Chien-Chung Huang

The Impact of Disabilities on Mothers' Work Participation: Examining Differences between Single and Married Mothers
Author: Sunhwa Lee, Gi-Taik Oh, Heidi Hartmann, Barbara Gault

The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Social Policy Reforms on Work, Marriage, and Living Arrangements
Author: David T. Ellwood

The Impact of Welfare Waivers on Female Headship Decisions
Author: John M. Fitzgerald, David Ribar

The Living Arrangements of New Unmarried Mothers
Author: Wendy Sigle-Rushton, Sara McLanahan

The Role of the Family in Determining Youth Employment
Author: Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia

The Roles of Child Support Enforcement and Welfare In Nonmarital Childbearing
Author: Irwin Garfinkel, Daniel S. Gaylin, Chien-Chung Huang, Sara McLanahan

The Social Outcomes of Street Gang Involvement
Author: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Tyesha's Dilemmas: Anthropological Ruminations on the Consequences of Welfare Reform
Author: Katherine S. Newman

Union Formation and Stability in Fragile Families
Author: Marcia J. Carlson, Sara McLanahan, Paula England

Welfare Reform and Child Well-being
Author: Greg Duncan, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Welfare Reform, Fertility and Father Involvement
Author: Sara McLanahan, Marcia J. Carlson

Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Families with Young Children
Author: Kristi L. Hannan, Thomas R. Chibucos

Work and Family Circumstances and Child Trajectories: When (and For What) Does AFDC Receipt Matter?
Author: Elizabeth Menaghan, Susan Jekielek, Frank Mott, Elizabeth Cooksey