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Children Working Papers
Children Working Papers
Working Paper
Who Are American Indian and Alaska Native Grandparents?
This poster examines the characteristics of American Indian and Alaska Native grandparents and their coresident grandchildren using data from the 2018–2022 ACS.
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Family Pies: Effects of Family Resource Shares in Childhood
Effects of birth order on various outcomes have been extensively studied in both life sciences and social sciences.
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Parental Veteran Status and Poverty among U.S. Children
This poster uses the 2019 CPS ASEC to examine how coresidence with a veteran parent is associated with the chances that children live in or near poverty.
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Child Well-Being and Transitions in the Presence of Parents
Study uses 2018 SIPP data to address children’s selection into family instability & analyze the relationship between parental transitions & child well-being.
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Family Complexity and Child Well-Being
Poster presentation on family complexity and child well-being, presented at the 2019 Southern Demographic Association meeting.
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Gender, Work Context and Nonstandard Work Schedules Among Parents
This paper uses SIPP 2014 to analyze parents working a nonstandard schedule.
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Puerto Rican-Origin Children’s Living Arrangements
This poster examines family, social and demographic characteristics of Puerto Rican-origin children in Puerto Rico and the United States in 2006 and 2015.
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Parents Working Nonstandard Schedules: Who’s Burning the Midnight Oil?
This poster uses SIPP 2014, Wave 1 to analyze families in which a parent works a nonstandard schedule.
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50 Years of Living Without Children: Who and What has Changed
Using CPS ASEC data we examine the demographic changes of persons living without children from 1967-2016.
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Comparison of Black and White Adoptive Parents of Black Children
Using American Community Survey 5-year data, this paper provides a demographic profile of Black adoptive parents.
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Impact of Family Structure, Mobility, & Employment on Children
Research has found that children fare best in stable family environments where parents have stable relations, employment, and housing.
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The Undercount of Young Children
This report includes a high-level review of the issue of the undercount of children ages 0 to 4 in censuses and surveys.
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Fathers, Children, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Employers
Documents the tendency of fathers in the U.S. to share employers with their sons and daughters.
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Program Participation and Child Well-Being
This study compares the well-being of low-income children who receive assistance from TANF and SNAP to their low-income, non-recipient counterparts.
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Non-English Language Students in Palm Beach School District
This analysis compares estimates from the
administrative school-based data with those from the sample survey estimates of the ACS
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The Impact of a Mother' s Decision to Work
Do children with stay-at-home mothers have higher adult earnings or more labor force experience by a given age?
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Creation of a Child Well-Being Index Using the SIPP
This poster describes the creation of an index of child well-being using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
Working Paper
Alternative Strategies for Grouping People into Resource Units
Investigates how poverty estimates change when additional interpersonal relationship information is available.
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Intra-Family Differences in Health Insurance Coverage
This paper gives a tabular analysis of the characteristics of Medicaid children and parents that have discordant coverage.
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Demographics of Same-Sex Couple Households with Children
This paper specifically examines the socio-demographic characteristics of same-sex couple households with children, using the 2009 ACS internal data files.
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Presentation: Who's in Head Start? Estimating Head Start Enrollment
This study builds off of previous work that attempts to model the number of children enrolled in Head Start using the ACS and the CPS.
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Who's in Head Start? Estimating Head Start Enrollment
This study builds off of previous work that attempts to model the number of children enrolled in Head Start using the ACS and the CPS.
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Paying for Non-Premium Medical Expenses for Children
This research compares the medical expenditure data of children who are insured with those who are uninsured.
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Poster: Paying for Non-Premium Medical Expenses for Children
Visual representation comparing the medical expenditure data of children who are insured with those who are uninsured.
Working Paper
Contexts of Racial Socialization
Transracial adoption, that is, the adoption of a non-White child by White parents, has existed for over fifty years.
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Language Acquisition of U.S. Children
This graphic shows that both age and time in the U.S. impact English-speaking ability of children from non-English speaking households.
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Children's Coresidence with Half Siblings
A substantial proportion of children will live with half siblings during their childhood, and tend to fare worse on some measures of child well being.
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The Complex Living Arrangements of Children and Unmarried Parents
This poster looks at living arrangements of children living with unmarried parents to understand who they are and compare their well-being.
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Risk Factors for Children in U.S., States, and Metro Areas
This paper addresses a lack of sub-national data about children’s well-being using a new program designed to provide data for the entire nation.
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Children's Religious Attendance and Child Well-Being
This analysis explores the role of religious attendance in relationship to parental support, school attachment and academic achievement among children.
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Language Needs of School-Age Children
Examines the characteristics of school-age children, their English-language speaking ability, and the adults with whom they reside.
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Co-Resident Grandparents and Grandchildren With No Parent
In 2004, there were 5.7 million grandparents living with grandchildren under age 18 in the United States.
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Instability and its Relationship to Child Well-Being: 2003
Research suggests that major transitions in the lives of children have marked effects on children's well-being.
Working Paper
Comparison of ACS and ASEC Data on Households and Families: 2004
This report focuses on comparisons of national distributions of household and family characteristics, between the 2004 ACS and the 2004 ASEC.
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Changes in the Lives of U.S. Children: 1990-2000
Data from the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses is used to look at the current and changing state of children in the U.S.
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Estimates about Fertility & Grandparents: ACS, CPS, C2SS, Census 2000
This report compares national distributions based on data for two items: fertility and grandparents residing with their grandchildren.
Page Last Revised - December 2, 2021
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