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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Fragile Families"”.
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Getting to the Doctor: BPSS Factors of Health Care Utilization in Fragile Families
<p>The number of fragile families where a child is born to unwed parents has increased greatly over the past half-century and now represents a diverse population in the United States (Ventura, 2009). These families, who are predominantly African American and Hispanic (Hummer & Hamilton, 2010) and …
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Economic Disadvantage, Nativity, and Academic Performance and School Punishment Among Latino/a Children
… this relationship. Data was drawn from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal measure of U.S. couples and their children in 20 large U.S. cities. Regression models indicate the relationship between economic disadvantage and academic performance and school punishment …
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Examining the Prevalence of Bullying Among Biracial Children in Comparison to Single-Race Children
… of bullying. The study uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study. The original study took place in 20 urban cities across America with mothers and fathers of newborns (N=4,898). This study looks at the prevalence of bullying made possible from the 9 year follow up child …
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Not Quite Out on the Streets: Examining Protective and Risk Factors for Housing Insecurity among Low-Income Urban Fathers
… of the protective factors that make families more secure and the risk factors that raise their level of insecurity. These analyses use resident and non-resident, low-income, urban fathers’ responses to the five publicly available waves of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing (n = …
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Low-income non-custodial fathers and child support enforcement: The policy of promoting fathering through financial obligation
… study was to perform a secondary analysis on The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study's dataset of non-residential father involvement with their child during their five-year follow-up. Using child support status, reason for nonresidential status, relationship with mother, and income level as …
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The Role of the Neighborhood Fast Food Environment in Weight Status of Inner-City Children
… children's risk for obesity. Data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study, a population-based panel data of urban children and their families, were linked to locations of fast food outlets. Using both cross-sectional and longitudinal analytic techniques and numerous robustness …
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Essays on early childhood development and family economics
… applying simulation methods with data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Results indicate that maternal time is the most significant factor in the production of skills of young children. Counterfactual exercises show the importance of institutional child care on both cognitive …
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Evaluating Police Presence and Police Stops in Schools: Outcomes for Adolescent Mental Health
… the most recent wave of data collection in the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study (FFCWS). Participants included 3,346 youth who were, on average, 15 years old. OLS regression analyses were repeated for depression and anxiety symptoms separately and included main effects for each …
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The Impact of Mother and Father Stress on Child Externalizing Behaviors
… structural equation models, data from the Fragile Families Child and Wellbeing Study (N = 1010) were analyzed to examine the differences between mother and father parenting stress on child externalizing behavior problems over time (ages three and five). Results of the cross-lagged …
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Three-Generation Family Households and Child Wellbeing
… for school and for long term development. Families play a primary role in the development of cognitive and social skills as well as physical health. Changes in family structure that have occurred over the last several decades have resulted in fewer children growing up in a two parent …
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DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAYS BETWEEN LOW BIRTH WEIGHT STATUS AND CHILDREN’S ACADEMIC AND SOCIOEMOTIONAL COMPETENCE: THE ROLE OF PARENTING PROCESSES AS A MODERATOR
… sample (N= 1,809), using secondary data from Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing (FFCW) study. Of particular interest was whether parenting factors moderate the associations between MLBW and indicators of both socioemotional and cognitive/academic competence. Birth weight and prenatal data …
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Health disparities in infant mortality: Examining at-risk and low risk black women
… National Center of Health Statistics (NCHS), the Fragile Families Study (FFS), and the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). The research hypothesis guiding this study is that Black women have higher IMRs because they experience stressors that negatively influence health birth outcomes. This …
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Dads matter: Examining paternal involvement as a predictive factor in healthy birth outcomes in African American families
… The analyses are based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study and focus groups with recent and expectant fathers from the Champaign-Urbana community in the state of Illinois. The overarching research hypothesis guiding this study is that African American involved …
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Parents on trial : jailing for child support nonpayment
… chapters. In Chapter 1, I use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCW) to explore the prevalence of jail for child support debt in a national context, finding that about 14% of debtors go to jail for this debt by the time their child is nine years old. I propose two …
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Locked Out and Locked Up: Assessing the Relationship Between Housing Instability and Recidivism for People with Criminal Drug Records Using a General Strain Theory Framework
… is crucial.</p> <p>Using data from the Fragile Families Study, this study incorporates both regression models and complex path models, using variables based on a General Strain Theory framework, to provide a robust test of the relationship between housing instability and recidivism for …
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Essays on the economics of investments in health
… the third essay uses panel data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) are used to test the hypothesis that increased father involvement as measured through any child support, informal support, in-kind support, and father-child contact (i.e., visitation) can have …
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Association between early maternal depression and child growth: A group-based trajectory modeling analysis
… groups. This study used data from the Fragile Families Child Well Being Study (FFCWS) to investigate the research questions. FFCWS is a national dataset that has information on 4,898 women from predominantly non-marital, low-income, minority groups in the United States. This study used …
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Factors influencing low-income working mother's child care arrangements under different neighborhood and state policy contexts
… and the Public and Contract data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing (FFCW) study, I investigate how selected mother’s personal characteristics (individual level factors), neighborhood socio demographic compositions, as well as state social welfare policies influence child care …
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The association between housing insecurity and TANF participation: Investigating the role of family resources and stressors
… issue facing U.S. households, particularly for families living in poverty. A lack of affordable housing, due, in part, from soaring housing costs and stagnating wages has led a substantial number of impoverished families to experience a housing crisis. Across the U.S., 61,265 households with …