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Joint Center for Poverty Research
Working Papers

Child Development


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

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

Adolescent Outcomes, Poverty Status, and Welfare Reform: An Analysis based on the Survey of Program Dynamics
Author: Eileen Trzcinski, Jerry Brandell

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

Assessing the Implications of Welfare Reform for Children's SSI Receipt
Author: Loretta E. Bass, Jane Mosley

Associations Between Participation in the National School Lunch Program, Food Insecurity, and Child Well-Being
Author: Rachel Dunifon, Lori Kowaleski-Jones

Bullets Don't Got No Name: Consequences of Fear in the Ghetto
Author: Jeffrey Kling, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Lawrence F. Katz

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

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

Does Age at Enrollment in First Grade Affect Children's Cognitive Test Scores
Author: Susan E. Mayer, David Knutson

Does Participation in Multiple Welfare Programs Improve Birth Outcomes?
Author: Michael Brien, Christopher Swann

Dynamic Models of Poverty and Psychosocial Adjustment through Childhood
Author: Michael J. Shanahan, Adam Davey, Jennifer Brooks

Early Childhood Intervention Programs: What Do We Know?
Author: Janet Currie

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

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

Grandmothers' Involvement Among Children and Adolescents Growing Up in Poverty
Author: Laura D. Pittman

How Developmental Psychologists Think About Family Process and Child Development in Low Income Families
Author: P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

How Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect American Children's Educational Attainment?
Author: Susan E. Mayer      

How Different ARE Welfare and Working Families? And Do Those Differences Matter for Children's Achievement?
Author: Greg Duncan, Rachel Dunifon, Morgan Ward Doran, W. Jean Yeung

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

Implementations of Welfare Changes for Parents of Young Children
Author: Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Judith Smith, Lisa Berlin, Kyunghee Lee

Income Changes and Cognitive Stimulation in Young Children's Home Learning Environments
Author: Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

Juveniles' Competence to Stand Trial: A Comparison of Adolescents' and Adults' Capacities as Trial Defendants
Author: Thomas Grisso, Laurence Steinberg, Jennifer Woolard, Elizabeth Cauffman, Elizabeth Scott, Sandra Graham, Fran Lexcen, N. Dickon Reppucci, Robert Schwartz

Maternal Employment and Overweight Children
Author: Patricia M. Anderson, Kristin Butcher, Phillip Levine

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

Neighborhoods and Adolescent Development: How Can We Determine the Links?
Author: Greg Duncan

Parental Job Loss and Early Adolescent Adjustment in Black and White Families
Author: Ariel Kalil, Thomas DeLeire

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

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

Short- and Long-Term Effects of AFDC Receipt on Families
Author: Rachel Dunifon

Should Juvenile Offenders be Tried as Adults? A Developmental Perspective on Changing Legal Policies
Author: Laurence Steinberg

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

The Consequences of Food Insecurity for Child Well-Being: An Analysis of Children's School Achievement, Psychological Well-Being, and Health
Author: Lori L. Reid

The Effect of Increasing Welfare Mothers' Education on their Young Children's Academic Problems and School Readiness
Author: Katherine Magnuson, Sharon McGroder

The Effect of Welfare on Child Outcomes: What We Know and What We Need to Know
Author: Janet Currie

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

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

The Well-Being of Children Born to Teen Mothers: Multiple Approaches to Assessing the Causal Links
Author: Judith Levine, Harold Pollack

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

Using Sibling Samples to Assess the Effect of Childhood Family Income on Completed Schooling
Author: Dan Levy, Greg Duncan

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, Management Systems, and Policy Theories of Child Well-Being
Author: Thomas Gais, Cathy M. Johnson

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