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Author: Phillips, Deborah A.
Resulting in 4 citations.
1. Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay
Mott, Frank L.
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
Phillips, Deborah A.
Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY): A Unique Research Opportunity
Developmental Psychology 27,6 (November 1991): 918-931.
Also: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/dev/27/6/918/
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLS General, NLSY79
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Child Care; Children; General Assessment; Household Composition; Life Course; Maternal Employment; Mothers; NLS Description; Overview, Child Assessment Data; Research Methodology

The data set known as Children of the NLSY offers unusual opportunities for research on questions not easily pursued by developmental psychologists. This article provides a history of children of the NLSY, describes the data set with special focus on the child outcome measures and a subset of maternal life history measures, highlights several of the research and policy relevant issues that may be addressed, and shows how the intersection of children's and mother's lives may be studied in less static, more life-course oriented ways. Exemplars are given in the topics of maternal employment and child care, adolescent pregnancy and child rearing, divorce, poverty, and multigenerational parenting. Implications of research using children of the NLSY for the field of developmental psychology and interdisciplinary collaboration are discussed. [PsycINFO]
Bibliography Citation
Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay, Frank L. Mott, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Deborah A. Phillips. "Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY): A Unique Research Opportunity." Developmental Psychology 27,6 (November 1991): 918-931.
2. Phillips, Deborah A.
Bridgman, Anne
New Findings on Children, Families, and Economic Self-Sufficiency
Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1995.
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: National Academy Press
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Development; Family Studies; Overview, Child Assessment Data; Poverty; Welfare

Presents the full text of "New Findings on Children, Families, and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Summary of a Research Briefing," a publication from the Board on Children and Families, edited by Deborah A. Phillips and Anne Bridgman. Examines issues such as ensuring self-sufficient, and whether child care subsidies help or hinder low income families' efforts to work. Contains references, a bibliography, and a list of participants. Offers access to other reports from the Board and the Board's home page. Notes that the project was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Links to the home pages of the NAS and the NAP. Excerpt from Ch.2: How Do Transitions Into and Out of Welfare Affect Children's Development? The major goal of welfare reform is to move families off of welfare and into jobs. This goal is driven by a belief in the value of financial self-sufficiency, but also by concerns about the detrimental effects of life on welfare, particularly for children. Research presented at the briefing confirms the importance of efforts to move families out of poverty, and also underscores the negative role of both poverty and welfare in the lives of children.
Bibliography Citation
Phillips, Deborah A. and Anne Bridgman. New Findings on Children, Families, and Economic Self-Sufficiency. Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1995..
3. Phillips, Deborah A.
Hofferth, Sandra L.
Rosenthal, Saul
Children of the NLSY Go to Child Care
Working Paper, Charlottesville NC: Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, 1990
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Psychology , University of Virginia
Keyword(s): Child Care; Infants; Maternal Employment

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

As non-maternal child care has become an increasingly normative experience for American children, empirical questions about child care have expanded to encompass a broad of array of outcomes, moderating variables, populations, and patterns of reliance on care. The Children of the National Longitudinal Study database offers the opportunity to examine many of these contemporary questions that are not easily addressed in the single-site, small scale, nonrepresentative samples to which developmentalists are typically restricted. This article reviews a range of child care issues that are amenable to analysis with the Children of the NLSY dataset. Several strengths and limitations of the dataset are discussed. Descriptive data concerning families' child care use in 1986, patterns of reliance on infant day care, and expenditures on child care are presented. Additional methodological, policy, and theoretical issues that can be addressed with the Children of the NLSY dataset are a lso described.
Bibliography Citation
Phillips, Deborah A., Sandra L. Hofferth and Saul Rosenthal. "Children of the NLSY Go to Child Care." Working Paper, Charlottesville NC: Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, 1990.
4. Shonkoff, Jack P.
Phillips, Deborah A.
From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000.
Also: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309069882/html/
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: National Academy Press
Keyword(s): Overview, Child Assessment Data

Scientists have had a long-standing fascination with the complexities of the process of human development. Parents have always been captivated by the rapid growth and development that characterize the earliest years of their children's lives. Professional service providers continue to search for new knowledge to inform their work. Consequently, one of the distinctive features of the science of early childhood development is the extent to which it evolves under the anxious and eager eyes of millions of families, policy markers, and service providers who seek authoritative guidance as they address the challenges of promoting the health and well-being of young children.
Bibliography Citation
Shonkoff, Jack P. and Deborah A. Phillips. From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000..