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Author: Pirog, Maureen
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1. Pina, Gabriel
Pirog, Maureen
The Impact of Foreclosure Prevention Policies on Preventive Care and Health Behaviors
Presented: Chicago IL, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 2017
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)
Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS); Foreclosure; Geocoded Data; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Home Ownership; Smoking (see Cigarette Use); State-Level Data/Policy

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A relative large body of literature shows how mortgage delinquency and foreclosure can negatively impact the well-being of individuals. Foreclosure and mortgage delinquency can have adverse effects on health, mental health, and risky health behaviors. During the financial crisis, several new public and private mortgage assistance programs were implemented in an attempt to prevent the large increase in foreclosures across the nation. Recent research finds that these programs are associated with lower rate of foreclosures and delinquencies, but no research has examined the impact of these policies on health outcomes. This study attempts to fill this gap by studying the impact the Hardest Hit Fund, a 2010 program that provided $7.6 billion of funding to 18 states that were most severely affected by the foreclosure crisis. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we estimate a difference-in-differences model that compares states that did and did not receive HHF funds for a subset of potentially eligible low income homeowners. We examine the impact of the program on preventive care (e.g., routine checkup), risky health behaviors (e.g., smoking, heavy drinking), and self-assessed health. Preliminary results show that the program increased the use of certain forms of preventive care and improved self-assessed health, but there is no evidence of an impact on risky health behaviors, neither on any mental health outcome.
Bibliography Citation
Pina, Gabriel and Maureen Pirog. "The Impact of Foreclosure Prevention Policies on Preventive Care and Health Behaviors." Presented: Chicago IL, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 2017.
2. Pina, Gabriel
Pirog, Maureen
The Impact of Homeless Prevention on Residential Instability: Evidence from the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program
Presented: Washington DC, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 2016
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)
Keyword(s): Economic Changes/Recession; Geocoded Data; Homelessness; Household Composition; Program Participation/Evaluation; Residence

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Homelessness and residential instability impose a high cost on families' wellbeing and health. Federal and local governments have implemented new strategies for preventing homelessness through financial assistance and other related services, but few methodologically rigorous evaluations of homeless prevention programs have been conducted. This paper explores the impact of the largest homeless prevention program in U.S. history, the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP). The research question is: did HPRP prevent young adults and students from becoming homeless or doubling up with other families? I exploit the fact that this program was not implemented at the same time across U.S. counties. This study conducts two separate analyses to examine the impact of HPRP on families' residential instability. The first is to estimate the impact of HPRP on the proportion of K-12 students experiencing homelessness at the county level, by matching HPRP funding availability with this information. The second is to estimate the impact of HPRP on the probability of young adults' families doubling up (moving to live with another family), with the unit of observation being the individual families (from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth). Preliminary results show that in counties where the funds were exhausted earlier, young adults' families were more likely to double up relatively to places where the funds were still available until the end of the program. However, there is no discernible impact on students' homelessness, suggesting that HPRP was more effective in preventing undesired moves than entry to shelters.
Bibliography Citation
Pina, Gabriel and Maureen Pirog. "The Impact of Homeless Prevention on Residential Instability: Evidence from the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program." Presented: Washington DC, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 2016.
3. Pirog, Maureen
Jung, Haeil
The Changing Composition of Young Fathers and the Effects of Early Fathering on Education and Labor Market Outcomes
Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Education; Fatherhood; Labor Market Outcomes

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This article examines differences in the composition of teen (up to age 19) and young (ages 20-24) fathers using the 1979 and 1997 panels of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY). To make a valid comparison between two generations, we compare three cohorts (born between 1962 and 1964) from the 1979 NLSY with three cohorts (born between 1980 and 1982) from the 1997 panel of NLSY. Respondents were 15 to 17 years of age when they responded to the first survey in both panels. Initial estimates indicate that reports by teen males of fathering children are more common in the 1997 panel than in the 1979 panel, and that early fathering has likely moved from seriously disadvantaged backgrounds into the social mainstream. Using regression models, we also examine the changing impacts of teen fatherhood on education and labor market outcomes at age 25.
Bibliography Citation
Pirog, Maureen and Haeil Jung. "The Changing Composition of Young Fathers and the Effects of Early Fathering on Education and Labor Market Outcomes." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011.
4. Pirog, Maureen
Jung, Haeil
Lee, Daewoo
The Changing Face of Teenage Parenthood in the United States: Evidence from NLSY79 and NLSY97
Child and Youth Care Forum 47,3 (June 2018): 317-342.
Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10566-017-9417-y
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Fatherhood; Parenthood; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Teenagers

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Objective: In this study, we provide an updated report on differences in adult cohabitation rates during past decades, examine the risk factors associated with becoming a teen parent, and track teen parents' educational and labor market outcomes until the age of 29 to examine whether the outcomes associated with become teen parents have changed in recent decades.

Methods: We select two nationally representative birth cohorts in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) 1979 and 1997 (N = 9821). We use the difference-in-difference approach to examine whether the positions of teen parents have progressed or worsened across the two cohorts.

Conclusion: The birth rates to teenage girls remained unchanged across the two cohorts, but the reported rates of teenage fatherhood increased. The proportions of both unmarried teenage fathers and mothers increased between the two cohorts. Teen fathers and mothers came increasingly from single-mother families with disadvantaged backgrounds. The proportion of teen mothers or fathers living with partners has not changed, but there has been a major shift from marriage to non-marital cohabitation. The education and earnings of the 1997 cohort of teen parents showed some progress relative to the earlier teen parent cohort, but no progress relative to peers who were not teen parents.

Bibliography Citation
Pirog, Maureen, Haeil Jung and Daewoo Lee. "The Changing Face of Teenage Parenthood in the United States: Evidence from NLSY79 and NLSY97." Child and Youth Care Forum 47,3 (June 2018): 317-342.