IPR Publications, Child, Adolescent, and Family Studies Working Papers


Child, Adolescent and Family Studies Working Papers

By Date


WP-03-01 Momentary Emotions and Physiological Stress Levels in the Everyday Lives of Working Parents
Emma K. Adam
WP-03-02 Cleaning Up Their Act: The Impacts of Marriage and Cohabitation on Licit and Illicit Drug Use
Greg Duncan, Bessie Wilkerson, and Paula England
WP-03-03 Employment and Child Care Decisions of Mothers and the Well-Being of Their Children
Raquel Bernal
WP-02-17 The Apple Does Not Fall Far from the Tree
Greg Duncan, Ariel Kalil, Susan E. Mayer, Robin Tepper, and Monique R. Payne
WP-02-18 Private and Social Incentives for Fertility: Israeli Puzzles
Charles F. Manski and Joram Mayshar
WP-01-01 Juggling School, Work, and Family: The Transition to Adulthood in Italy, Sweden, Germany, and the United States
Thomas D. Cook and Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.
WP-01-02 Fatherhood and Incarceration as Potential Turning Points in the Criminal Careers of Unskilled Men
Kathryn Edin, Timothy J. Nelson, and Rechelle Paranal
WP-01-03 Forced to Choose: The Effects of Multiracial Status on Adolescent Identity
Melissa Herman
WP-00-03 How Extended is the Extended African-American Family? The Case of Family Caregiving to Older African-American
Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Sharon Wallace Williams, Paula Goodwin, and Theresa Cooper
WP-00-19 Kinship Care and the Price of State Support
Dorothy E. Roberts
WP-00-20 Home Sweet Home(s): Parental Separations, Residential Moves and Adjustment Problems in Low-Income Adolescent Girls
Emma K. Adam and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
WP-99-04 Is There Justice in Children's Rights? The Critique of Federal Family Preservation Policy
Dorothy E. Roberts
WP-99-05 An Empirical Analysis of Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Couples: Do "Likes" Still Like "Likes" in the '90s?
Lisa K. Jepsen and Christopher A. Jepsen
WP-99-18 How Neighborhoods, Families, Peer Groups, and Schools Jointly Affect Changes in Early Adolescent Development
Thomas D. Cook, Melissa R. Herman, Meredith Phillips, and Richard A. Settersten, Jr.
WP-99-19 How Inner-City Children See Their Family, School, Peers, and Neighborhood Developmental Changes During the Transition to Adolescence
Thomas D. Cook and Robert F. Murphy
WP-99-20 Spanning Racial Boundaries: Multiracial Adolescents and Their Families, Peers, Schools, and Neighborhoods
William J. Corrin and Thomas D. Cook
WP-98-29 Understanding Family Change: Past, Present, and Future Effects of Family Events on Children
Rachel Dunifon
WP-97-7 Staying Out of Trouble: Neighborhood Influences on Adolescent Problem Behavior
Lori Kowaleski-Jones
WP-97-20 The Structure of Achievement and Behavior Across Middle Childhood
Lori Kowaleski-Jones and Greg J. Duncan
WP-97-21 College-for-All: Do Students Understand What College Demands?
James Rosenbaum
WP-97-22 Shortcut: High School Grades as a Signal of Human Capital
Shazia Rafiullah Miller
WP-96-2 Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children?
Greg J. Duncan, Wei-Jun Yeung, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Judith Smith
WP-96-25 Putting Fathers Back in the Picture: Parental Activities and Children's Adult Attainments
Wei-Jun J. Yeung, Greg J. Duncan, and Martha S. Hill
WP-96-26 Unintended Policy Impact of Outcome-Based Measures in a New Era of Service Delivery: Examples from Preschool Immunization
Lynn Olson and Andrew Gordon
WP-95-3 Do Families "Invest" in Social Capital?
Sandra L. Hofferth, Johanne Boisjoly, and Greg J. Duncan
WP-95-4 Does Children's School Attainment Benefit from Parental Access to Social Capital?
Sandra L. Hofferth, Johanne Boisjoly, and Greg Duncan
WP-95-20 Using Sibling Data to Estimate the Impact of Neighborhoods on Children's Educational Outcomes
Daniel Aaronson
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