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Author: Carlson, Marcia Jeanne
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1. Carlson, Marcia Jeanne
Do Fathers Really Matter?: Father Involvement and Social-Psychological Outcomes for Adolescents
Working Paper #99-04, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University, November 1999
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Office of Population Research, Princeton University
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); CESD (Depression Scale); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Well-Being; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Deviance; Family Structure; Fatherhood; Fathers and Children; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Biological; Fathers, Influence; Fathers, Involvement; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Siblings; Substance Use

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This paper was presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Meetings, November 1999, in Washington, DC. This paper uses new data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine how father involvement affects several behavioral outcomes for adolescents ages 10 to 14. Descriptive statistics on the sample characteristics and father involvement are presented; then, regression models are estimated to assess the overall effect of involvement by biological fathers, as well as the effect of involvement in particular family situations.
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Carlson, Marcia Jeanne. "Do Fathers Really Matter?: Father Involvement and Social-Psychological Outcomes for Adolescents." Working Paper #99-04, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University, November 1999.
2. Carlson, Marcia Jeanne
Family Structure, Father Involvement and Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, August 2000
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Behavioral Problems; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Delinquency/Gang Activity; Divorce; Family Structure; Fathers and Children; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Biological; Fathers, Involvement; Fathers, Presence; Marriage; Parenting Skills/Styles; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; School Suspension/Expulsion; Sociability/Socialization/Social Interaction

Recent changes in the demographics of American families have led to a striking increase in the number of families headed by a single parent. As fewer children spend most or all of their childhood living with two biological parents, concern has risen about the consequences of various family structures for children's development and well-being. This dissertation examines the effects of family structure on adolescent behavioral outcomes and the mechanisms by which those effects operate. Regression analyses are conducted using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for adolescents ages 10 to 14 in 1996. Dependent variables include measures of externalizing and internalizing behaviors such as delinquency, substance use, school suspension and negative feelings. A range of mediating factors is assessed, with emphasis on the role of father involvement. Consistent with previous research, results from this dissertation show significant deleterious effects of single-parent families for children and adolescents. The findings also indicate that most of the effects of family structure can be accounted for by a range of intervening factors and background characteristics. Family structure operates through mediating factors which include the father-child relationship, economic status, and negative peer influence. Father involvement is a particularly important mediator that partially "explains" the greater behavioral problems observed among adolescents in single-parent families. Variations with respect to the effects of father involvement are explored. Involvement by biological fathers is associated with improved behavioral scores for all adolescents regardless of living arrangements, although involvement by residential fathers appears to have a greater effect than involvement by non-residential fathers; these conclusions, however, are tentative and require further analysis using a larger sample of adolescents. Initial evidence indicates that involvement by step fathe rs does not improve adolescent behavior, although the small number of cases living in step families prevents definitive conclusions from being drawn. The level of biological father involvement is strongly associated with the quality of relationship between the mother and the father, particularly for adolescents who live with their biological, married parents.
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Carlson, Marcia Jeanne. Family Structure, Father Involvement and Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, August 2000.
3. Carlson, Marcia Jeanne
Family Structure, Father Involvement, and Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes
Journal of Marriage and Family 68,1 (February 2006): 137-154.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3600362
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: National Council on Family Relations
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Delinquency/Gang Activity; Divorce; Family Structure; Fathers; Fathers and Children; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Biological; Fathers, Involvement; Fathers, Presence; Marriage; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Sociability/Socialization/Social Interaction

Research has shown that living away from one's biological father is associated with a greater risk of adverse child and adolescent outcomes; yet, the role of the father-child relationship in understanding this association has not been directly investigated. This study uses data on biological fathers' relationships with their children from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (N = 2,733) to assess whether father involvement mediates the relationship between family structure (i.e., father absence) and four measures of adolescent behavior. Differences in father involvement are shown to account for a sizeable fraction of the variance in outcomes by family structure. Father involvement does not affect boys and girls differently but is more beneficial when the father lives with the adolescent.
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Carlson, Marcia Jeanne. "Family Structure, Father Involvement, and Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes." Journal of Marriage and Family 68,1 (February 2006): 137-154.
4. Carlson, Marcia Jeanne
How Does Family Structure Matter? Father Involvement and the Behavior of Young Adolescents
Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); CESD (Depression Scale); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Depression (see also CESD); Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Involvement

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This paper looks at how one aspect of family structure influences adolescent outcomes. In particular, I examine the effect of the nature, quality and quantity of father-child interaction on the behavior of adolescents ages 10 to 14. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I estimate a regression model to determine whether father closeness and involvement, as self-reported by adolescents, influences behavioral index scores after controlling for relevant social, economic and demographic characteristics. Results indicate that father involvement, regardless of father's residential location, has important consequences for both internalizing and externalizing behavior of adolescents.
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Carlson, Marcia Jeanne. "How Does Family Structure Matter? Father Involvement and the Behavior of Young Adolescents." Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998.
5. Carlson, Marcia Jeanne
Corcoran, Mary E.
Family Structure and Children's Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes
Journal of Marriage and Family 63,3 (August 2001): 779-792.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2001.00779.x/abstract
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: National Council on Family Relations
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; CESD (Depression Scale); Children, Behavioral Development; Family Income; Family Structure; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Pearlin Mastery Scale

We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to examine the effect of various family structures on behavioral and cognitive outcomes for children ages 7 to 10. We extend previous research by using a longitudinal definition of family structure and by exploring multiple mechanisms through which family structure may affect children in two outcome domains. We find that family income, mother's psychological functioning, and the quality of the home environment are particularly important for children's behavior, while family income and mother's aptitude have notable effects on children's cognitive test scores.
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Carlson, Marcia Jeanne and Mary E. Corcoran. "Family Structure and Children's Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes." Journal of Marriage and Family 63,3 (August 2001): 779-792.
6. Carlson, Marcia Jeanne
Pilkauskas, Natasha
VanOrman, Alicia
Examining the Antecedents of U.S. Nonmarital Fathering using Two National Datasets
Presented: Dallas, TX, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2010
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Event History; Fatherhood; Fathers; Fathers, Biological; Fertility; National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG); Racial Differences

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The dramatic rise in U.S. nonmarital childbearing in recent decades has generated considerable attention from both researchers and policymakers alike, particularly with respect to the implications for women and children. In turn, an extensive literature has examined the factors that predict women's nonmarital childbearing. Far less is known about the antecedents of nonmarital fatherhood, largely because data about men, especially low-income men who are disproportionately unmarried fathers, have been much less readily available. In this paper, we use data from two national datasets with multinomial logit models and event history analysis to examine the antecedents of contemporary U.S. nonmarital fathering. Preliminary results suggest that black and Hispanic men are much more likely to have a child outside of marriage, and higher education and older age at first sex strongly diminish the likelihood of having a nonmarital birth. We discuss the implications of our results for future research and public policy.
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Carlson, Marcia Jeanne, Natasha Pilkauskas and Alicia VanOrman. "Examining the Antecedents of U.S. Nonmarital Fathering using Two National Datasets." Presented: Dallas, TX, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2010.
7. Carlson, Marcia Jeanne
Turner, Kimberly J.
Fathers Unequal: Men as Partners and Parents in an Era of Rapid Family Change
Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Family Influences; Fatherhood; Fathers; Fathers, Influence; Fathers, Involvement

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While the rising inequality in U.S. family life and its implications has received growing scholarly attention, less well understood is the fact that these family changes have had profoundly different implications for women versus men—mothers versus fathers. In the context of rising/high family instability, mothers are more likely to live with their children, while fathers are likely to live away from their children. In this paper, I present new evidence about fathers’ roles with children and rising inequality in fatherhood that has emerged over the last half century, drawing on data from the Current Population Survey (1976-2010) and the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Fathers’ diminished roles in family life—and growing inequality in such, likely has profound implications for children, mothers, fathers themselves, and society.
Bibliography Citation
Carlson, Marcia Jeanne and Kimberly J. Turner. "Fathers Unequal: Men as Partners and Parents in an Era of Rapid Family Change." Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014.
8. Carlson, Marcia Jeanne
VanOrman, Alicia
Pilkauskas, Natasha
Examining the Antecedents of U.S. Nonmarital Fatherhood
Demography 50,4 (August 2013): 1421-1447.
Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-013-0201-9
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Earnings; Educational Attainment; Fatherhood; Marital Status; National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG); Racial Differences

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Despite the dramatic rise in U.S. nonmarital childbearing in recent decades, limited attention has been paid to factors affecting nonmarital fatherhood (beyond studies of young fathers). In this article, we use data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort to examine the antecedents of nonmarital fatherhood, as compared to marital fatherhood. Overall, we find the strongest support across both data sets for education and race/ethnicity as key predictors of having a nonmarital first birth, consistent with prior literature about women�s nonmarital childbearing and about men�s early/teenage fatherhood. Education is inversely related to the risk of nonmarital fatherhood, and minority (especially black) men are much more likely to have a child outside of marriage than white men. We find little evidence that employment predicts nonmarital fertility, although it does strongly (and positively) predict marital fertility. High predicted earnings are also associated with a greater likelihood of marital childbearing but with a lower likelihood of nonmarital childbearing. Given the socioeconomic disadvantage associated with nonmarital fatherhood, this research suggests that nonmarital fatherhood may be an important aspect of growing U.S. inequality and stratification both within and across generations.
Bibliography Citation
Carlson, Marcia Jeanne, Alicia VanOrman and Natasha Pilkauskas. "Examining the Antecedents of U.S. Nonmarital Fatherhood." Demography 50,4 (August 2013): 1421-1447.
9. VanOrman, Alicia
Carlson, Marcia Jeanne
Nonmarital Childbearing and Socioeconomic Trajectories for Men and Women
Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Life Course; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Motherhood; Parents, Single; Propensity Scores; Socioeconomic Status (SES)

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As the proportion of nonmartial births continues to rise, understanding how nonmarital parenthood fits into the life course is increasingly important. Early research on women links unwed motherhood to a range of adverse economic outcomes, but far less is known about how unmarried fatherhood impacts men’s long-term socioeconomic trajectories. Due to these gaps, it is unclear how unmarried fatherhood alters men’s life course and if unmarried parenthood impacts men’s lives differently than women’s. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort, we use a propensity score matching model, and latent growth curve techniques to show the extent to which potentially adverse outcomes occur in response to nonmarital parenthood, and how the effects vary by gender and race/ethnicity. This study will extend prior research by providing more detailed information about the varying effects of having a child outside of marriage on contemporary men’s and women’s socioeconomic trajectories.
Bibliography Citation
VanOrman, Alicia and Marcia Jeanne Carlson. "Nonmarital Childbearing and Socioeconomic Trajectories for Men and Women." Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013.