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Source: Journal of Social Issues
Resulting in 7 citations.
1. Acs, Gregory P.
Martin, Steven
Schwabish, Jonathan A.
Sawhill, Isabel V.
The Social Genome Model: Estimating How Policies Affect Outcomes, Mobility and Inequality across the Life Course
Journal of Social Issues 72,4 (December 2016): 656-675.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josi.12188/abstract
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Children, Poverty; Disadvantaged, Economically; Educational Outcomes; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Life Cycle Research; Mobility, Social; Poverty

Persistently high poverty among families with children, a lack of equal opportunity, stalled intergenerational mobility, and inequality have all risen up the agenda for federal, state, and local policymakers. Children born into low-income families face barriers to success in each stage of life from birth till age 40. Using data on a representative group of American children and a life cycle model to track their progress from the earliest years through school and beyond, we show that well-evaluated, targeted interventions can close over 80% of the gap between more and less advantaged children in the proportion that ends up middle class by middle age. These interventions can also greatly improve social mobility and enhance the lifetime incomes of less advantaged children.
Bibliography Citation
Acs, Gregory P., Steven Martin, Jonathan A. Schwabish and Isabel V. Sawhill. "The Social Genome Model: Estimating How Policies Affect Outcomes, Mobility and Inequality across the Life Course." Journal of Social Issues 72,4 (December 2016): 656-675.
2. Coltrane, Scott
Miller, Elizabeth C.
DeHaan, Tracy
Stewart, Lauren
Fathers and the Flexibility Stigma
Journal of Social Issues 69,2 (June 2013): 279-302.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josi.12015/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Earnings; Fatherhood; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Wages, Men

Women face an earnings penalty associated with motherhood but researchers have paid scant attention to how fatherhood might influence men's long-term earnings. Using multiple waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and employing ordinary least squares regression and fixed effects models we investigate what happens to men who modify their employment for family reasons. Previous research shows that men work longer hours and earn more after becoming fathers, but if men are unemployed or reduce work hours for family reasons, they could experience a “flexibility stigma” depressing earnings and limiting future career opportunities. We find strong support for the flexibility stigma hypothesis. Controlling for the effects of age, race, education, intelligence, occupation, job tenure, work hours, health limitations, marital status, and number of children, we find that men who ever quit work or are unemployed for family reasons earn significantly less than others in the future. Theoretical reasons for observed findings are discussed.
Bibliography Citation
Coltrane, Scott, Elizabeth C. Miller, Tracy DeHaan and Lauren Stewart. "Fathers and the Flexibility Stigma." Journal of Social Issues 69,2 (June 2013): 279-302.
3. Hart, Daniel
Atkins, Robert L.
Ford, Debra
Urban America as a Context for the Development of Moral Identity in Adolescence
Journal of Social Issues 54,3 (Fall 1998): 513-530.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1998.tb01233.x/abstract
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corporation
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Behavior, Antisocial; Behavior, Prosocial; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Family Income; Home Environment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Social Emotional Development; Teenagers; Temperament; Urbanization/Urban Living; Volunteer Work

Moral identity, defined as a self-consistent commitment to lines of action benefiting others, is described in the contexts of adolescence and poor urban neighborhoods. A model of moral identity development is proposed. According to the model, stable characteristics of the individual and the individual's family, in conjunction with social attitudes, self-conceptions, and opportunities for the exploration of prosocial action, influence the development of moral identity. Analyses from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (828 adolescents and young adults who answered questions relevant to voluntary service as a probabilistic indicator of moral identity formation) provide support for the model, and demonstrate that urban poverty is associated with few opportunities for development of moral identity. It is argued that the provision of these opportunities should be given a high priority both to foster good individual development and as a means for increasing social capital in neighborhoods. ((c) 1999 APA/PsycINFO, all rights reserved)
Bibliography Citation
Hart, Daniel, Robert L. Atkins and Debra Ford. "Urban America as a Context for the Development of Moral Identity in Adolescence." Journal of Social Issues 54,3 (Fall 1998): 513-530.
4. Macke, Anne Statham
Using the National Longitudinal Surveys to Examine Changes in Women's Role Behavior
Journal of Social Issues 38,1 (Winter 1982): 39-51.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1982.tb00840.x/abstract
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women
Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corporation
Keyword(s): Behavior; Educational Attainment; Family Influences; Research Methodology; Sex Roles; Work History

This paper explores the uses of a particular set of panel data, the NLS of Mature and Young Women, to study women's issues. Women's labor force behaviors, role conceptions, and family statuses were measured at several time points. Various ways of examining the relationships among these variables are presented. The author concludes that the data set provides valuable information about changes in women's situation in society over time and causes of those changes.
Bibliography Citation
Macke, Anne Statham. "Using the National Longitudinal Surveys to Examine Changes in Women's Role Behavior." Journal of Social Issues 38,1 (Winter 1982): 39-51.
5. Mott, Frank L.
Developmental Effects of Infant Care: The Mediating Role of Gender and Health
Journal of Social Issues 47,2 (Summer 1991): 139-158.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1991.tb00292.x/abstract
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corporation
Keyword(s): Birthweight; Child Care; Child Development; Child Health; Children, Academic Development; Children, Behavioral Development; Gender Differences; General Assessment; Geographical Variation; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Household Structure; Maternal Employment; Memory for Location; Motor and Social Development (MSD); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT)

This research used the 1986 Merged Child-Mother Data File from the NLSY to explore how various forms of infant care in a child's first year were linked with scores at ages one-to-four on the Memory for Location, Motor and Social Development, and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test measures. The extent to which these linkings were mediated by an infant's health and gender was examined and important distinctions were noted. In particular, healthy infant girls received some cognitive advantage by being cared for extensively by caretakers other than their mother during infancy, whereas infant boys with health problems gained socioemotionally by spending more time with their mothers. More generally, it was concluded that usually, the average young child's ability to cope intellectually and socioemotionally (as measured on the above scales) is not affected in major ways either positively or negatively by the generic nature of his or her child care arrangement.
Bibliography Citation
Mott, Frank L. "Developmental Effects of Infant Care: The Mediating Role of Gender and Health." Journal of Social Issues 47,2 (Summer 1991): 139-158.
6. Pope, Hallowell
Mueller, Charles W.
The Intergenerational Transmission of Marital Instability: Comparisons by Race and Sex
Journal of Social Issues 32,1 (Winter 1976): 49-65.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1976.tb02479.x/abstract
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corporation
Keyword(s): Divorce; Fertility; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Marital Instability; Mortality

The authors examine the intergenerational transmission of marital instability. Those respondents whose parental homes were disrupted by death or divorce have higher rates of marital instability in their own marriages. Except for black males, a greater transmission effect was found among respondents from childhood homes disrupted by divorce or separation rather than death. Implications from the literature on sex-role learning in children are examined by comparing the transmission effect for respondents who lived in households of different composition after having their parental homes disrupted.
Bibliography Citation
Pope, Hallowell and Charles W. Mueller. "The Intergenerational Transmission of Marital Instability: Comparisons by Race and Sex." Journal of Social Issues 32,1 (Winter 1976): 49-65.
7. Waite, Linda J.
Leibowitz, Arleen A.
Witsberger, Christina
What Parents Pay For: Child Care Characteristics, Quality, and Costs
Journal of Social Issues 47,2 (Summer 1991): 33-48.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1991.tb00286.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corporation
Keyword(s): Child Care; Children; Preschool Children

Although most children whose mothers work receive some non-parental care, this "child care" varies greatly in its features, especially quality. Child development researchers and practitioners have explored in detail the features of child care that provide the best environment for children. However, we know virtually nothing about which parents select "high-quality" care for their children, or which arrangements most often have the features associated with the best outcomes for children. This paper explores these issues, using data from the NLSY. We find that on several dimensions, care in a home--the child's own, a nonrelative's or a relative's--provides features linked to quality care. Our results show, however, that parents do not pay more for any of the features of child care associated in the child development literatures with high quality. Finally, we find that those families with the greatest access to relatives obtain the highest "quality" care. The implications of these results are discussed.
Bibliography Citation
Waite, Linda J., Arleen A. Leibowitz and Christina Witsberger. "What Parents Pay For: Child Care Characteristics, Quality, and Costs." Journal of Social Issues 47,2 (Summer 1991): 33-48.