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Author: Paasch, Kathleen M.
Resulting in 3 citations.
1. Teachman, Jay D.
Day, Randal D.
Carver, Karen P.
Call, Vaughn R. A.
Paasch, Kathleen M.
Sibling Resemblance in Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes: The Role of Father Presence
Presented: Bethesda, MD, Conference on Father Involvement, October 1996
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Author
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Differences; Cognitive Development; Family Structure; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Involvement; Modeling; Parents, Single; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Siblings

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Using longitudinal data on sibling pairs from the NLSY, we investigate the influence of father-presence on behavioral and cognitive outcomes. Our results indicate that children who live in one-parent families exhibit more behavioral problems and have lower mathematics and reading ability. The differences across time between children in two-parent and one-parent families are very stable for behavioral problems and mathematics ability. For reading ability, however, the difference between children in two-parent and one-parent families increase over time. In addition, there is a drop over time in the percentage of between-family variance in reading scores, particularly for younger siblings. This pattern suggests an increasing sensitivity of reading ability to extra-familial sources of influence as children age. That this increased sensitivity to extra-familial influences results in lower reading scores only for children in one-parent families suggests that a different set of non familial factors are operating for these children.
Bibliography Citation
Teachman, Jay D., Randal D. Day, Karen P. Carver, Vaughn R. A. Call and Kathleen M. Paasch. "Sibling Resemblance in Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes: The Role of Father Presence." Presented: Bethesda, MD, Conference on Father Involvement, October 1996.
2. Teachman, Jay D.
Day, Randal D.
Paasch, Kathleen M.
Carver, Karen P.
Call, Vaughn R. A.
Sibling Resemblance in Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes: The Role of Father Presence
Journal of Marriage and Family 60,4 (November 1998): 835-848.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/view/00222445/ap020142/02a00040/0
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: National Council on Family Relations
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Differences; Cognitive Development; Family Structure; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Involvement; Fathers, Presence; Modeling; Parents, Single; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Siblings

Using longitudinal data on sibling pairs from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, we investigate the influence of father presence on behavioral and cognitive outcomes for children. Our results indicate that children who live in one-parent families exhibit more behavioral problems and have lower mathematics and reading ability than children in two-parent families. The differences across time between children in two-parent and one-parent families are very stable for behavioral problems and mathematics ability. For reading ability, however, the difference between children in two-parent and one-parent families increases over time.
Bibliography Citation
Teachman, Jay D., Randal D. Day, Kathleen M. Paasch, Karen P. Carver and Vaughn R. A. Call. "Sibling Resemblance in Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes: The Role of Father Presence." Journal of Marriage and Family 60,4 (November 1998): 835-848.
3. Teachman, Jay D.
Paasch, Kathleen M.
Day, Randal D.
Carver, Karen P.
Poverty During Adolescence and Subsequent Educational Attainment
In: Consequences of Growing Up Poor. G.J. Duncan and J. Brooks-Gunn, eds., New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997: 382-418
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, Mature Women, Older Men, Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Keyword(s): Child Health; Children, Poverty; Educational Attainment; Family Structure; Fertility; Gender Differences; High School Completion/Graduates; High School Diploma; Household Composition; Intelligence; Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Poverty; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Factors

Chapter 13. The immediate effects of poverty on the living conditions, nutrition and physical and emotional health of children are relatively well documented (Mare 1982; McLeod and Shanahan 1993; McLoyd 1990; Miller and Korenman 1994a, I994b; Parker, Greer, and Zuckerman 1988). Less evidence is available on the longer-term consequences of poverty for children. This chapter focuses on the potential link between the experience of poverty in adolescence and subsequent educational achievement. A variety of evidence linking events and circumstances in childhood to outcomes in later life suggests that a childhood lived in poverty may have lasting effects. A substantial body of literature indicates the importance of parental socioeconomic and household characteristics for their offspring's eventual level of education, occupational status, and income (Blau and Duncan 1967; Corcoran et al. 1992; Duncan, Featherman, and Duncan 1972; Featherman and Hauser 1978: Hauser and Daymont 1977; Hauser and Featherman 1977; Jencks et al. 1972, 1979; Jencks, Crouse, and Meuser 1983; Sewell and Hauser 1975; Sewell, Hauser, and Wolfe 1980). We build on this literature by examining the link between poverty experienced during adolescence and several educational outcomes, including high school completion, college attendance, and years of schooling attained. We take a longitudinal perspective, distinguishing between short-term and longer term poverty. We also consider various measures of poverty as well as the impact of welfare receipt. Finally, we implement controls for a wide range of potentially confounding influences such as race, sex, parental education, family structure and intellectual ability (IQ).
Bibliography Citation
Teachman, Jay D., Kathleen M. Paasch, Randal D. Day and Karen P. Carver. "Poverty During Adolescence and Subsequent Educational Attainment" In: Consequences of Growing Up Poor. G.J. Duncan and J. Brooks-Gunn, eds., New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997: 382-418