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Author: Davey, Adam
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1. Davey, Adam
Shanahan, Michael J.
Schafer, Joseph L.
Correcting for Selective Nonresponse in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Using Multiple Imputation
Journal of Human Resources 36,3 (Summer 2001): 500-519.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3069628
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keyword(s): Attrition; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Data Analysis; Data Quality/Consistency; Longitudinal Surveys; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Nonresponse; Poverty; Psychological Effects

Survey attrition and nonresponse, particularly when selective, present unique challenges to researchers interested in studying developmental processes and longitudinal change. Four distinct patterns of nonresponse on children's psychosocial adjustment and lifetime poverty experiences and family histories are identified using principal components analysis. In turn, membership in these four groups is significantly predicted by the child's demographic characteristics, family experiences, and previous values on adjustment variables, indicating selective nonresponse and raising the possibility of biased estimates based on listwise deletion of missing data. We then examine a set of latent growth curve models that interrelate children?s family experiences and psychosocial adjustment using listwise deletion (LD) and multiple imputation (MI) procedures. Implications for treatment of nonresponse in national longitudinal surveys are discussed.
Bibliography Citation
Davey, Adam, Michael J. Shanahan and Joseph L. Schafer. "Correcting for Selective Nonresponse in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Using Multiple Imputation." Journal of Human Resources 36,3 (Summer 2001): 500-519.
2. Davey, Adam
Shanahan, Michael J.
Schafer, Joseph L.
Corrections for Missingness in the NLSY: Longitudinal Patterns in the Mother-Child Files
Presented: Ann Arbor, MI, Health and Retirement Study, Institute for Social Research, Conference on Data Quality Issues in Longitudinal Surveys, 1998
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan
Keyword(s): Attrition; Data Analysis; Data Quality/Consistency; Longitudinal Surveys; Modeling; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Nonresponse; Poverty; Psychological Effects

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NOTE - See J. of Human Resources 2001 for published version.
Survey attrition and nonresponse, particularly when selective, present unique challenges to researchers interested in studying developmental processes and longitudinal change. Four distinct patterns of nonresponse on children?s psychosocial adjustment and lifetime poverty experiences and family histories are identified using principal components analysis. In turn, membership in these four groups is significantly predicted by the child's demographic characteristics, family experiences, and previous values on adjustment variables, indicating selective nonresponse and raising the possibility of biased estimates based on listwise deletion of missing data. We then examine a set of latent growth curve models that interrelate children's family experiences and psychosocial adjustment using listwise deletion (LD) and multiple imputation (MI) procedures. Implications for treatment of nonresponse in national longitudinal surveys are discussed
Bibliography Citation
Davey, Adam, Michael J. Shanahan and Joseph L. Schafer. "Corrections for Missingness in the NLSY: Longitudinal Patterns in the Mother-Child Files." Presented: Ann Arbor, MI, Health and Retirement Study, Institute for Social Research, Conference on Data Quality Issues in Longitudinal Surveys, 1998.
3. Shanahan, Michael J.
Davey, Adam
Brooks, Jennifer
Dynamic Models of Poverty and Psychosocial Adjustment through Childhood
JCPR Working Paper 49, Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University/University of Chicago, October 1998.
Also: http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/jcpr/workingpapers/wpfiles/shanahan.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Joint Center for Poverty Research
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Poverty; Children, Well-Being; Depression (see also CESD); Economic Well-Being; Family Influences; Growth Curves; Hispanics; Life Course; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Poverty; Welfare

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

This paper was also presented in 1997 at the Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto.

Children exhibit significant variability in their poverty experiences and well-being through time, longitudinal realities that complicate the study of economic deprivation and adjustment in the early life course. Drawing on thirteen years of data from the Children of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set, we examine how children's poverty histories predict latent growth curves of their psychosocial adjustment using multiply imputed data sets. The duration of poverty between birth and 1986 predicts the level of antisocial behavior and anxiety-depression in 1986, while the proportion of time spent in poverty between 1986 and 1992 predicts the rate increase in antisocial behavior between 1986 and 1992. Controlling the duration of poverty, we find that transitions into poverty between birth and 1986 predict the rate of increase in anxiety- depression between 1986 and 1992 among boys. Hispanic boys seem especially vulnerable to early poverty experiences: transitions into poverty between birth and 1986 raise their 1986 level of antisocial behavior, while the duration of poverty between birth and 1986 sharpens their rate of increase in anxiety-depression between 1986 and 1992. These findings underscore the value of a life-history approach to children's family experiences and well-being.

Bibliography Citation
Shanahan, Michael J., Adam Davey and Jennifer Brooks. "Dynamic Models of Poverty and Psychosocial Adjustment through Childhood." JCPR Working Paper 49, Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University/University of Chicago, October 1998.