Search Results

View Selected Citations Select and View All Search Citations

Author: Garasky, Steven

Resulting in 7 citations.

1.	Garasky, Steven
1.	Exploring the Effects of Childhood Family Structure on Teenage and Young Adult Labor Force Participation Discussion Paper No. 1111-96, Institute for Research on Poverty, October 1996. Also: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin - Madison Keyword(s): Childhood Residence; Educational Attainment; Employment, Youth; Family Structure; Gender Differences; High School Completion/Graduates; Labor Force Participation; Teenagers; Wages, Youth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In examining teenage and young adult employment, this study has three objectives. It seeks to throw light on reasons that some teenagers work and some do not. It explores the effect teenage labor force participation has on teenage educational attainment. Finally, it considers the longer-term effects of early employment on young adult world and wages. Four cross-sectional analyses are performed separately for male and female cohorts of original National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) respondents who were aged 14 through 16 at the first interview in 1979. These analyses take the fullest advantage of the longitudinal nature of the data, using information from every year available, 1979 through 1993. Childhood family structure is found to have little impact on teenage employment and timely high school graduation. However, there is evidence that teenage employment has positive effects on high school graduation and later labor force participation.
	Bibliography Citation Garasky, Steven. "Exploring the Effects of Childhood Family Structure on Teenage and Young Adult Labor Force Participation." Discussion Paper No. 1111-96, Institute for Research on Poverty, October 1996.

2.	Garasky, Steven
2.	Exploring the Effects of Personal Perceptions and Expectations on Teenage Employment Presented: Pittsburgh, PA, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Eighteenth Annual Research Conference, October 1996 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Employment, Youth; Endogeneity; Gender Differences; Geocoded Data; Self-Perception; Teenagers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Few studies have focused on what motivates some teenagers to work and not others. This study of teenage employment seeks to understand the effects of personal perceptions and future expectations on work status and work intensity. Data are from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) Geocode file. The analyses utilize an instrumental variable estimation methodology given the endogeneity between employment and these characteristics of interest. Personal perceptions and expectations affect a teen's work status more than work intensity. Teens with higher expectations of their ability to achieve their occupational aspiration are more likely to be working; Teens with higher expectations of educational attainment are less likely to be working. Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, the effects of personal perceptions and expectations on teen employment are found to vary by both the age and the gender of the individual.
	Bibliography Citation Garasky, Steven. "Exploring the Effects of Personal Perceptions and Expectations on Teenage Employment." Presented: Pittsburgh, PA, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Eighteenth Annual Research Conference, October 1996.

3.	Garasky, Steven
3.	The Effects of Family Structure on Educational Attainment: Do the Effects Vary by Age of the Child? American Journal of Economics and sociology 54,1 (January 1995): 89-104. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1536-7150.1995.tb02633.x/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc. Keyword(s): Education, Secondary; Educational Attainment; Family Circumstances, Changes in; Family Structure; Head Start; High School Diploma; Poverty; Welfare The attainment of a high school education is essential to the reduction of the probability of poverty and long-term dependence on welfare. How six distinct family structures over four separate periods of childhood are related to the likelihood of graduating from high school are studied. The impact of family structure is found to vary by both the type of structure experienced and the age of the child when the experience occurred. The effect of a change in family structure is also found to vary with the child's age. Support is provided as to the efficacy of some governmental program such as Head Start. (ABI/Inform)
	Bibliography Citation Garasky, Steven. "The Effects of Family Structure on Educational Attainment: Do the Effects Vary by Age of the Child?" American Journal of Economics and sociology 54,1 (January 1995): 89-104.

4.	Garasky, Steven
4.	Where Are They Going? A Comparison of Urban and Rural youths? Locational Choices After Leaving the Parental Home Social Science Research 31,3 (September 2002): 409-431. Also: http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/6/2/2/9/4/6/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Academic Press, Inc. Keyword(s): Local Labor Market; Migration; Modeling, Logit; Rural Youth; Rural/Urban Migration; Transition, Adulthood; Urbanization/Urban Living An earlier version of this paper was presented at the NLSY97 Early Results Conference sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Joint Center for Poverty Research held November 18?19, 1999, in Washington, DC. The decision for adolescents and young adults to leave their parents and their home community is complex and difficult. This study of youth migration focuses on the geographical location to which urban and rural youth relocate upon exiting their parental household. Little is known about destination choices of youth, especially how they differ for youth from urban and rural areas. A multinomial logit model of migration destination choices that incorporates individual, household, and community level factors is estimated with data from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Results indicate that while the local economy and labor market are important to the migration decision, the magnitudes of these effects are generally small. Noneconomic individual, household, and community factors play an important role in the migration process, as well. The magnitudes of noneconomic factor effects generally are greater for rural youth compared to urban youth. Copyright: 2003 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
	Bibliography Citation Garasky, Steven. "Where Are They Going? A Comparison of Urban and Rural youths? Locational Choices After Leaving the Parental Home." Social Science Research 31,3 (September 2002): 409-431.

5.	Garasky, Steven Haurin, R. Jean Haurin, Donald R.
5.	Group Living Decisions as Youth Transition to Adulthood: The Effect of Local Shelter Costs Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Family Formation; Family Income; Family Studies; Household Models; Local Labor Market; Migration; Migration Patterns; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study follows teens through their young adulthood as they make the transition to independent living. Our hypotheses are that the probability of leaving the parental household is lower in higher real cost of shelter localities, and that, conditional on choosing to leave the parental household, the probability of their living in large groups of unrelated adults is higher in communities with relatively higher shelter costs. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth are merged with house price and rental data obtained from Freddie Mac-Fannie Mae and from Coldwell Banker. The unit of analysis is a person/year. The method is a discrete hazard model within a multinomial logit framework that allows for more than one possible state transition. We believe that our study is important for a broad PAA audience including students of family formation, housing and real estate, family economics, migration, and local macroeconomics.
	Bibliography Citation Garasky, Steven, R. Jean Haurin and Donald R. Haurin. "Group Living Decisions as Youth Transition to Adulthood: The Effect of Local Shelter Costs." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997.

6.	Garasky, Steven Haurin, R. Jean Haurin, Donald R.
6.	Group Living Decisions as Youths Transition to Adulthood Journal of Population Economics 14,2 (June 2001): 329-349. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/qcm491pdrv032t5j/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Home Environment; Household Composition; Mobility; Teenagers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study follows teens through young adulthood as they transition to independent living. We focus on a little studied issue: why some youths live in groups rather than alone or with parents. This choice is important because the size of the group has a substantial impact on the demand for dwelling units; the more youths per dwelling the lower is aggregate demand and the greater is population density. Our study also adds to the knowledge of which factors influence youths' choice of destination as they leave the parental home. The empirical testing uses a discrete hazard model within a multinomial logit framework to allow for more than one possible state transition. We find that economic variables have little impact on the decision of whether to exit to a large versus a small group, while socio-demographic variables matter. We also test a new push-pull hypothesis and find that the pull of economic variables on the probability of exiting the parental home increases as youths reach their mid to late twenties.
	Bibliography Citation Garasky, Steven, R. Jean Haurin and Donald R. Haurin. "Group Living Decisions as Youths Transition to Adulthood." Journal of Population Economics 14,2 (June 2001): 329-349.

7.	Garasky, Steven Peters, H. Elizabeth Argys, Laura M. Cook, Steven T. Nepomnyaschy, Lenna Sorensen, Elaine Waller, Maureen
7.	Nonresident Parenting: Measuring Support Provided to Children by Nonresident Fathers Presented: Bethesda, MD, Measurement Issues in Family Demography Workshop, November 2003. Also: http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/mifd/papers/argys.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Maryland Population Research Center Keyword(s): Child Support; Fathers and Children; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Involvement Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Gathering data from parents living separately presents many unique challenges. For example, often it is difficult to locate both parents and when they are interviewed, they tend to provide different accounts of the nonresident parent?s involvement with the same child. Further, family and household configurations are complicated by the addition of new relationships (e.g. step-relationships) that evolve over time and the dynamic nature of the residential patterns of children who often reside with different parents at different times of the year or at different times in their childhood. Within this challenging context the authors of this paper examine the support provided by nonresident parents (specifically fathers due to data limitations) to their children who live elsewhere. Specifically, we focus on how questions related to support provision are asked and what results are found. We examine eight separate data sets: six survey-based data sets, one a compilation of data from court records, and an extract of data from administrative records of a state public assistance program. The overriding objective of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of current data gathering approaches in this area. Our goal is to provide insights into ways we can improve our surveys in this important area of family demography.
	Bibliography Citation Garasky, Steven, H. Elizabeth Peters, Laura M. Argys, Steven T. Cook, Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Elaine Sorensen and Maureen Waller. "Nonresident Parenting: Measuring Support Provided to Children by Nonresident Fathers." Presented: Bethesda, MD, Measurement Issues in Family Demography Workshop, November 2003.

Admin