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Source: Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington
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1. Hao, Lingxin
Matsueda, Ross L.
Family Social Capital Through Childhood: A Sibling Model of Behavior Problems
Working Paper No. 99-6, Center for the Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, March 1999.
Also: http://www.csde.washington.edu/csde/wps/99-6.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Childbearing, Adolescent; Children, Poverty; Coresidence; Endogeneity; Heterogeneity; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Life Course; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parenthood; Poverty; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Punishment, Corporal; Siblings; Variables, Instrumental; Welfare

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An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada, August 1997. This article uses the concept of family social capital to conceptualize mothers' life course changes and parent-child interactions in models of children's behavior problems. To investigate structural relations generating social resources, we examine families' internal closure and embeddedness in society. We take a life course view and focus on the timing and duration of mothers' poverty, single motherhood, welfare, employment, and kin coresidence through early and middle childhood. Drawing on the child psychology and social capital literatures, we specify a model of parent-child interactions as a reciprocal outcome between parenting and children's behavior. To control for unobserved family heterogeneity and reciprocal causation, we estimate fixed-effects sibling models with lagged endogenous predictors and instrumental variables. Using data on mothers and children from the NLSY, we find that child behavior problems are shaped by poverty in early and middle childhood, as well as parents' use of physical punishment.
Bibliography Citation
Hao, Lingxin and Ross L. Matsueda. "Family Social Capital Through Childhood: A Sibling Model of Behavior Problems." Working Paper No. 99-6, Center for the Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, March 1999.
2. Hao, Lingxin
Matsueda, Ross L.
Family Social Capital through Childhood: A Sibling Model of Behavior Problems
CSDE Working Paper No. 99-06, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, Seattle, March 1999.
Also: http://csde.washington.edu/downloads/99-6.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Children, Behavioral Development; Endogeneity; Heterogeneity; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Life Course; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Poverty; Punishment, Corporal; Siblings; Variables, Instrumental; Welfare

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

An earlier version of this paper entitled "Teenage Childbearing, Social Capital, and Sibling Behavior Problems" was presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada, August 1997. This article uses the concept of family social capital to conceptualize mothers' life course changes and parent-child interactions in models of children's behavior problems. To investigate structural relations generating social resources, we examine families' internal closure and embeddedness in society. We take a life course view and focus on the timing and duration of mothers' poverty, single motherhood, welfare, employment, and kin coresidence through early and middle childhood. Drawing on the child psychology and social capital literatures, we specify a model of parent-child interactions as a reciprocal outcome between parenting and children's behavior. To control for unobserved family heterogeneity and reciprocal causation, we estimate fixed-effects sibling models with lagged endogenous predictors and instrumental variables. Using data on mothers and children from the NLSY, we find that child behavior problems are shaped by poverty in early and middle childhood, as well as parents' use of physical punishment.
Bibliography Citation
Hao, Lingxin and Ross L. Matsueda. "Family Social Capital through Childhood: A Sibling Model of Behavior Problems." CSDE Working Paper No. 99-06, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, Seattle, March 1999.
3. Huang, Penelope Maria
Tanfer, Koray
Young Adult Fertility and the Intendedness of Births
CSDE Working Paper No. 02-04, University of Washington, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, 2002
Cohort(s): NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington
Keyword(s): Childbearing, Adolescent; Pearlin Mastery Scale; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); Wantedness

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Context: Unintended births have adverse social psychological consequences for the well-being of the mother and the father, and these consequences may differ by gender. Methods: Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth -- Young Adult sample (children of the NLSY mothers) are used to profile the fertility patterns of a sample of young men and women. Logistic regression analyses examine the correlates of unintended fertility and whether unintended fertility is predictive of subsequent adverse consequences and whether there are differences in these consequences associated with gender. Results: We find that factors associated with unintended family is similar for men and women. Unintended fertility is strongly associated with age, race, education, labor force status and parity. We also find that having an unintended birth has deleterious effects on self-efficacy and self-esteem, such that both are reduced following an unintended birth. Conclusions: Focus on women in fertility research may hamper our understanding of the dynamics of fertility decisions, including partners' conflicting desires and intentions, and negotiation and resolution of these conflicts. Unresolved conflict between partners may be a major cause underlying unintended pregnancies.
Bibliography Citation
Huang, Penelope Maria and Koray Tanfer. "Young Adult Fertility and the Intendedness of Births." CSDE Working Paper No. 02-04, University of Washington, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, 2002.