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1.	Clarke, Lynda Cooksey, Elizabeth C. Joshi, Heather Wiggins, Richard D. McCulloch, Andrew
1.	Consequences of Family Disruption for the Cognitive and Behavioral Development of Children in Britain and the United States Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Britain, British; Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Home Environment; Children, Well-Being; Cognitive Development; Cross-national Analysis; Families, Two-Parent; Family Circumstances, Changes in; Family Structure; Family Studies; Marital Disruption; Modeling; NCDS - National Child Development Study (British) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Does the increasing number of children living outside a conventional two-parent nuclear family, mean bad news for children? Is cognitive and emotional development being harmed by the breakdown of the family, or has a moral panic been overstated'? Evidence comes from the second generation of the British NCDS (1958 birth cohort), collected in 1991, when the study members were 33, and the American NLSY (1958-1965 cohorts), interviewed in 1992, when the subsample of their children studied were at least 4. Models relating family structure to child well-being are presented with and without adjustment for other emographic, social and economic circumstances. A multi-variate, multi-level strategy estimates heterogeneity within and between families. Simple associations between family disruption and child well-being are shown to be mediated through material and other factors. The high variability in the data defies deterministic modelling but there appear to be differing associations in the two countries.
	Bibliography Citation Clarke, Lynda, Elizabeth C. Cooksey, Heather Joshi, Richard D. Wiggins and Andrew McCulloch. "Consequences of Family Disruption for the Cognitive and Behavioral Development of Children in Britain and the United States." Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998.

2.	Joshi, Heather Cooksey, Elizabeth C. Clarke, Lynda Wiggins, Richard D. McCulloch, Andrew
2.	Family Disruption and the Cognitive and Behavioural Development of Children in Longitudinal Data from Britain and USA Working Paper No. 50, National Child Development Study, User Support Group, March 1998. Also: London, England: City University, Social Statistics Research Unit Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: National Child Development Study - NCDS Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Britain, British; Children, Well-Being; Cross-national Analysis; Families, Two-Parent; Family Characteristics; Family Circumstances, Changes in; Family Structure; Family Studies; Heterogeneity; Modeling; NCDS - National Child Development Study (British); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Does the increasing number of children living outside a conventional two-parent nuclear family, mean bad news for children? Is cognitive and emotional development being harmed by the breakdown of the family, or has a moral panic been overstated? Evidence comes from the second generation of the British NCDS (1958 birth cohort), collected in 1991, when the study members were 33, and the American NLSY (1958-1965 cohorts), interviewed in 1992, when the sub-sample of their children studied were at least 4. Models relating family structure to child well-being are presented with and without adjustment for other demographic, social and economic circumstances. A multi-variate, multi-level strategy estimates heterogeneity within and between families. Simple associations between family disruption and child well-being are shown to be mediated through material and other factors. The high variability in the data defies deterministic modelling but there appear to be differing associations in the two countries.
	Bibliography Citation Joshi, Heather, Elizabeth C. Cooksey, Lynda Clarke, Richard D. Wiggins and Andrew McCulloch. "Family Disruption and the Cognitive and Behavioural Development of Children in Longitudinal Data from Britain and USA." Working Paper No. 50, National Child Development Study, User Support Group, March 1998.

3.	Joshi, Heather Cooksey, Elizabeth C. Wiggins, Richard D. McCulloch, Andrew Verropoulou, Georgia Clarke, Lynda
3.	Diverse Family Living Situations and Child Development: A Multi-Level Analysis Comparing Longitudinal Evidence from Britain and the United States International Journal of Law, Policy, and the Family 13 (1999): 292-314 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Oxford University Press Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Britain, British; Children, Well-Being; Cross-national Analysis; Fathers, Absence; Human Capital Theory; Marital Status; NCDS - National Child Development Study (British); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Earlier version presented: British Society for Population Studies, Cambridge, England and Annual Conference of the Royal Statistical Society, 1998 This study uses national data from both Great Britain and the United State to examine the relationship between children's family history and their educational and behavioral development. We use a multivariate, multi-level modeling strategy to estimate heterogeneity both within and between families. Our results show that associations between family living situations and children's well-being appear to be mediated by levels of human, financial and social capital available to children. Contrary to expectations, we found no evidence that children with non-traditional family living experiences are any more likely to be negatively impacted in Britain than across the Atlantic where diverse living arrangements are more widespread.
	Bibliography Citation Joshi, Heather, Elizabeth C. Cooksey, Richard D. Wiggins, Andrew McCulloch, Georgia Verropoulou and Lynda Clarke. "Diverse Family Living Situations and Child Development: A Multi-Level Analysis Comparing Longitudinal Evidence from Britain and the United States." International Journal of Law, Policy, and the Family 13 (1999): 292-314.

4.	Joshi, Heather Cooksey, Elizabeth C. Wiggins, Richard D. McCulloch, Andrew Verropoulou, Georgia Clarke, Lynda
4.	Diverse Family Living Situations and Child Development: A Multilevel Analysis Comparing Longitudinal Evidence from Britain and the United States In: Education, Family and Population Dynamics. M. Cosio, R. Marcoux, M. Pilon, and A. Quesnel, eds. Paris, France: Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography (CICRED), 2003: pp. 329-356 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Commitee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography (CICRED) Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Britain, British; Children, Well-Being; Cross-national Analysis; Fathers, Absence; Human Capital Theory; Marital Status; NCDS - National Child Development Study (British); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study uses national data from both Great Britain and the United States to examine the relationship between children's family history and their educational and behavioral development. We use a multivariate, multi-level modeling strategy to estimate heterogeneity both within and between families. Our results show that associations between family living situations and children's wellbeing appear to be mediated by levels of human, financial and social capital available to children. Contrary to expectations, we found no evidence that children with non-traditional family living experiences are any more likely to be negatively impacted in Britain than across the Atlantic where diverse living arrangements are more widespread.
	Bibliography Citation Joshi, Heather, Elizabeth C. Cooksey, Richard D. Wiggins, Andrew McCulloch, Georgia Verropoulou and Lynda Clarke. "Diverse Family Living Situations and Child Development: A Multilevel Analysis Comparing Longitudinal Evidence from Britain and the United States" In: Education, Family and Population Dynamics. M. Cosio, R. Marcoux, M. Pilon, and A. Quesnel, eds. Paris, France: Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography (CICRED), 2003: pp. 329-356

5.	McCulloch, Andrew Wiggins, Richard D. Joshi, Heather Sachdev, Darshan
5.	Internalizing and Externalizing Children's Behaviour Problems in Britain and the US: Relationships to Family Resources Children & Society 14 (2000): 368-383. Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2000.tb00191.x Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Britain, British; Cognitive Ability; Cross-national Analysis; Family Circumstances, Changes in; Family Structure; NCDS - National Child Development Study (British); Rutter Child Scales Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. A large sample of British children (n=994) of varying ages (7-18 years) and a large sample of American children (n=886) of varying ages (7-16 years) were rated by their mothers using respectively the Rutter Child Scale A and the Behaviour Problems Index both of which cover a variety of behavioural problems. Factor analysis of the behavioural scales distinguished externalising and internalising dimensions of behaviour in both countries. We examined whether children's experiences of family change, cognitive ability and family adversity including economic deprivation were associated with differences in the prevalence of the behavioural dimensions. Mean cognitive scores decreased significantly with increasing externalising behavioural problems in British and American children but showed no significant relationship to levels of internalising behaviour problems in either sample. Among American children internalising and externalising behavioural problems were related to experience of non-intact family structures and measures of family adversity. Externalising behavioural problems were related to measures of family adversity among British boys and girls but were only related to experience of non-intact family structures in the sample of British girls. Among British girls, internalsing behavioural problems were also related to non-intact family structures. The associations between non-intact family structures and behavioural problems were independent of measures of economic deprivation in both samples of children. This study documents some of the background factors which affect children's behavioural and cognitive outcomes. Unlike children's family structure economic deprivation can be influenced through policy intervention, and the analysis supports the view that relieving economic deprivation would help to improve children's cognitive behavioural outcomes.
	Bibliography Citation McCulloch, Andrew, Richard D. Wiggins, Heather Joshi and Darshan Sachdev. "Internalizing and Externalizing Children's Behaviour Problems in Britain and the US: Relationships to Family Resources." Children & Society 14 (2000): 368-383.

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