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Close to Home: A Simultaneous Equations Model of the Relationship Between Child Care Accessibility and Female Labor Force Participation 总被引:3,自引:2,他引:1
Rising rates of maternal employment among current and former welfare recipients have increased the use of non-parental child
care. Little empirical work examines the relationship between women’s labor supply and the geographic supply of child care.
We combine census data with child care provider information for the state of Maryland to explore the relationship between
female labor supply and the geographic supply of child care. OLS and 3-SLS equations are estimated, and the findings are consistent
across each estimator: Women’s labor supply is sensitive to the geographic supply of child care and vice versa. These results
are important because states now spend significant money on quality improvement initiatives, many of which increase child
care supply in low-income neighborhoods.
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Burt S. BarnowEmail: |
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A sample from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study was used to examine the influence of parent-to-child financial transfers and economic resources on child-to-parent financial transfers, caregiving, time-help, and coresidence as multiple, interdependent transfers from middle-aged adult children to their elderly parents. There were strong positive effects of prior parent-to-child financial transfers in the models of caregiving, time help, and coresidence but no effect on child-to-parent financial transfers. Coresidence, caregiving, and time-help are complements but there was no interdependence between child-to-parent financial transfers and caregiving or time-help. The effects of parents’ incomes and net worth are interpreted as evidence about motives for transfers to them.
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Sun-Kang KohEmail: |
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The quality of time spent with children in Australian households 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Using data from the 1992 and 1997 Australian Time Use Surveys, we explore patterns in the quality of child care time spent
by parents in Australia. Drawing on existing research, we construct and evaluate four alternative ways of defining child care
quality. We estimate censored regression models of the time parents spend in high-quality child care, lower-quality child
care, and market work according to these different definitions. We find that seemingly small changes in how the quality of
time spent caring for children is conceptualized markedly affect the conclusions we draw about the associations of different
household and personal characteristics with parents’ child care time.
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Charlene M. KalenkoskiEmail: |
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Saving for Children’s College Education: An Empirical Analysis of the Trade-off Between the Quality and Quantity of Children 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Tansel Yilmazer 《Journal of Family and Economic Issues》2008,29(2):307-324
This paper examines the effect of children’s college expenses on household savings. The theoretical model introduces life-cycle
savings into the quality–quantity model of fertility and derives predictions for the impact of expected expenses on parents’
savings. Using the actual amount of parents’ financial support reported in the Survey of Consumer Finances, the empirical
model estimates the expected expenditures on children’s college education and investigates the effect of expected expenditures
on parents’ savings. The results show that parents’ support for each of their children’s college expenses decreases with the
number of children. The results are consistent with the predictions of the life-cycle theory of saving and consumption that
households save in advance for expected expenses to smooth their consumption.
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Tansel YilmazerEmail: |
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Julie C. Dunsmore Pa Her Amy G. Halberstadt Marie B. Perez-Rivera 《Journal of Nonverbal Behavior》2009,33(2):121-140
This study investigated parents’ emotion-related beliefs, experience, and expression, and children’s recognition of their
parents’ emotions with 40 parent-child dyads. Parents reported beliefs about danger and guidance of children’s emotions. While
viewing emotion-eliciting film clips, parents self-reported their emotional experience and masking of emotion. Children and
observers rated videos of parents watching emotion-eliciting film clips. Fathers reported more masking than mothers and their
emotional expressions were more difficult for both observers and children to recognize compared with mothers’ emotional expressions.
For fathers, but not mothers, showing clearer expressions was related to children’s general skill at recognizing emotional
expressions. Parents who believe emotions are dangerous reported greater masking of emotional expression. Contrary to hypothesis,
when parents strongly believe in guiding their child’s emotion socialization, children showed less accurate recognition of
their parents’ emotions.
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Julie C. DunsmoreEmail: |
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Evidence of the Effectiveness of Child Support and Visitation: Examining Food Insecurity among Children with Nonresident Fathers 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Over six million children who reside with a single mother and have a father who lives elsewhere are food insecure. This study
examines the effectiveness of two aspects of nonresident father involvement, in-person visitation and financial contributions,
in reducing food acquisition problems using data from the National Survey of America’s Families. We find that frequent visits
by nonresident fathers are related to a reduced likelihood that the resident mother’s household will experience indicators
of food insecurity. The effects of child support receipt on reducing food acquisition problems, however, are less consistent.
Our results support policies designed to recognize and encourage nonresidential parents to make both monetary and nonmonetary
contributions to the lives of their children.
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Susan D. StewartEmail: |
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Financial Issues Associated with Having a Child with Autism 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Data from the Family Experiences with Autism Survey are used to identify factors associated with financial problems in families
that have a child with autism. Likelihood of financial problems was positively associated with use of medical interventions,
having unreimbursed medical or therapy expenses, and having relatively lower income. Use of speech and language therapy was
negatively associated with likelihood of financial problems. Many survey respondents forfeited future financial security and
even experienced bankruptcy to provide needed therapy for a child with autism. Specific ways that financial advisors can help
families that have a child with autism are outlined.
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Dana Lee BakerEmail: |
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Mary Eschelbach Hansen 《Journal of Family and Economic Issues》2007,28(3):377-393
Since 1978 the federal government has implemented a variety of programs to promote the adoption of children from foster care.
A key part of these programs has been the use of subsidies to lower the cost of adopting and parenting children who have been
in foster care. Although subsidies are a key part of federal policy, there has been little empirical research on the effect
of subsidies on adoption rates. This paper uses data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System to estimate
the impact of subsidy rates on adoption rates. Subsidies to families have a positive and statistically significant effect
on adoption rates.
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Mary Eschelbach HansenEmail: |
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When parents are suspected of child abuse or neglect, their children may be placed with foster families. We estimate the relationship
between the monthly subsidies paid to foster families and the quantity of foster care services provided. The empirical model
uses variation in subsidies and foster care populations within 37 states and the years 1987–1995. One innovation in our approach
is that we exploit the idea that states do not appear to set market clearing rates, as evidenced by a foster home shortage
during this time period. In this case of excess demand, variation in the monthly subsidy traces out the supply curve. Our
results show that states with high demand may be able to use economic incentives to recruit foster families.
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H. Elizabeth PetersEmail: |
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Naoko Akashi-Ronquest 《Review of Economics of the Household》2009,7(1):59-81
A remarriage typically involves significant changes in a family’s financial circumstance, and these changes, combined with
the relative bargaining relationship between spouses, likely affect the well-being of the children who are part of the family.
In this paper, I use the separate-spheres model, a theoretical model that explains the determinants of bargaining power in
marriage, to analyze how a remarried couple’s bargaining relationship affects their child investment in stepfamilies. Based
on this theoretical model, I build and estimate an empirical model that investigates the determinants of parental investment.
As evidence of parental preference for biological children over stepchildren, I find that an increased wage rate of a biological
mother significantly improves her child investment when her husband is a stepfather of the child, while there is no such effect
for mothers living with the biological father of the child.
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Naoko Akashi-RonquestEmail: |
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Parenthood and Commitment to the Legal Profession: Are Mothers Less Committed than Fathers? 总被引:3,自引:3,他引:0
Jean E. Wallace 《Journal of Family and Economic Issues》2008,29(3):478-495
This research examined the relationship between parenthood and career commitment. Karasek’s (Administrative Science Quarterly 24:285–308, 1979) Job Demand-Job Control Model was used as a theoretic framework for hypothesizing the relationships between work and family
demands, job control and social support and parents’ career commitment. Questionnaire data from a sample of practicing lawyers
with children were used to test this model. The results show fathers generally reported more work demands than mothers; whereas,
mothers reported more family demands than fathers. Job control and social support did not moderate relationships between work
and family demands and parents’ career commitment. Perhaps the most surprising finding of this study, contrary to assumptions
in the literature and the workplace, was that mothers practicing law are significantly more committed to their careers than fathers. This paper closes by discussing possible explanations for these findings.
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Jean E. WallaceEmail: |
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Dissociation,Traumatic Attachments,and Self-Harm: Eating Disorders and Self-Mutilation 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Sharon K. Farber 《Clinical Social Work Journal》2008,36(1):63-72
Self-harm, such as eating disorders and self-mutilation, represents dissociated compensatory attempts to serve self-regulatory
functions. Self-harm develops when the child who has become attached to those who have inflicted pain and suffering maintains
that attachment by inflicting pain on himself. Brain imaging studies have found that the communication pattern between parent
and child shapes the way the child’s attachment system adapts to experiences with the attachment figure, literally hardwiring
the child’s brain. The good news is that a safe and secure attachment is very good medicine and can rewire the brain. An attachment-based
multi-phase approach to treatment is presented.
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Sharon K. FarberEmail: |
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Being deeply understood relies on the ability of the social work clinician to have authentic and genuine empathy for their
client. This phenomenological study sought to understand the lived experience of men sexually abused as boys in their childhood,
and what life is like for them as sexual abuse survivors in adulthood. Analyses of fourteen male survivors’ narratives into
the abuse they experienced as children, and the meaning they make of that experience today, offer insights for therapists.
Findings suggest that therapists have a responsibility to ask male clients about sexual victimization, even when this is not
the presenting problem but they exhibit sexual abuse related problems; an obligation to educate one’s self on responding therapeutically
to disclosure; a duty to receive training to counsel sexually victimized males; a responsibility to advocate for the development
of men’s services; and taking an active role in shifting attitudes towards men’s vulnerabilities.
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Graeme MillingtonEmail: |
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Nathan D. Grawe 《Review of Economics of the Household》2008,6(1):29-45
The dominant economic theory of the family explains the negative correlation between family size and child achievement, a
‘quality–quantity trade-off’, through borrowing constraints and credit market failure. This paper presents a model in which
the opportunity cost of time spent with children is increasing, thus creating a trade-off even in economies with perfect credit
markets. While both produce a family size effect, temporal and financial constraints predict different patterns for the trade-off
across levels of parent income. Using data from the National Child Development Study, the trade-off is found even among high-earning
families who presumably do not face credit constraints. Moreover, the trade-off does not grow as parent earnings diminish.
Both of these findings suggest that temporal and not financial constraints explain the quality–quantity trade-off.
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Nathan D. GraweEmail: |
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Changing College Students’ Financial Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior through Seminar Participation 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Lynne M. Borden Sun-A Lee Joyce Serido Dawn Collins 《Journal of Family and Economic Issues》2008,29(1):23-40
This pilot study examined the influence of Credit Wise Cats, a financial education seminar presented by Students in Free Enterprise,
on the attitudes, knowledge, and intentions toward financial responsibility of college students (N = 93). Findings suggest that the seminar effectively increased students’ financial knowledge, increased responsible attitudes
toward credit and decreased avoidant attitudes towards credit from pre-test to post-test. At post-test, students reported
intending to engage in significantly more effective financial behaviors and fewer risky financial behaviors. Finally, demographic
factors (e.g., gender and employment status) predicted students’ financial knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. These results
suggest that a seminar format may be useful in reaching a wider audience of college students and, thus, warrants future longitudinal
evaluation.
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Dawn CollinsEmail: |
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Catherine Roller White Kirk O’Brien Lovie J. Jackson Anne Havalchak Chereese M. Phillips Preneka Thomas Jorge Cabrera 《Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal》2008,25(6):497-515
Because past research indicates that stronger ethnic identity is related to better outcomes in areas such as academic achievement
and mental health, it is important to provide youth in foster care with opportunities to develop their ethnic identity. Using
data from in-person interviews with 188 youth aged 14–17 in foster care (88.7% response rate), this paper explores two areas
related to ethnic identity: (1) youth perceptions about their own ethnic identity, and (2) attitudes about ethnic identity
development specific to the experience of being in foster care. Results suggest that black youth and Hispanic/Latino youth
have a stronger sense of ethnic identity than white youth. Most youth are interested in learning more about their ethnic background.
Understanding how youth in foster care identify ethnically and understanding their beliefs related to ethnic identity may
lead to the enhancement of services provided to youth across child welfare, education, and mental health systems.
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Catherine Roller WhiteEmail: |
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Labor Force Supply Decisions of Rural Low-Income Mothers 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Employment is crucial to the economic well-being of families. Using a multi-state sample of 412 rural low-income mothers,
our study identifies factors influencing two employment decisions they make: labor force entry and number of hours supplied.
A logistic regression model correctly predicted 80% of mothers’ work participation decisions. Employed mothers were older,
better educated, and less likely to suffer from depression; as well as, more likely to have a driver’s license and receive
child care assistance and the Earned Income Tax Credit. An estimated labor supply function explained 33% of the variation
in hours worked by the 208 employed rural mothers. Higher wages, availability of health insurance, and overtime benefits predicted
the number of hours they were willing to work.
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Sharon B. SeilingEmail: |
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This paper examines the interactions between spouses’ decisions to join the labor force. We use the asymptotic least squares
method in order to estimate a system of equations with limited dependent variables. We find that when spouse’s decision-making
is modeled as simultaneous, this affects primarily the man’s participation equation who appears to be positively influenced
by whether the woman works or not, by the number of children and by the birth of a child. The woman’s decision to participate
is not affected by whether the man participates or not and depends negatively of the number of children and the birth of a
child. This implies that there is a female leadership in decisions to participate in the labor market and that the added-worker
effect should be reinterpreted as a function of demography rather than unemployment.
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Véronique Simonnet (Corresponding author)Email: |
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This paper concerns the author’s countertransference reflections on her work with a gay adolescent who identifies with powerfully
destructive internal objects, including Hitler and the Monster. The author describes her countertransference inquiry through
which she experiences her own potential destructiveness in order to help accommodate her adolescent patient’s rejected and
disowned self states.
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Shoshana RingelEmail: |
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Gayle A. Sulik 《Qualitative sociology》2007,30(3):297-314
Gendered definitions of care influence breast cancer survivors’ coping strategies, sense of entitlement to care, and ultimately
their capacity to receive care. Using qualitative data from 60 intensive interviews, this study examines how gendered definitions
of care influence women’s experiences as care-receivers. Findings indicate that negotiating gender boundaries to care for
the self is both empowering and stigmatizing. Women with breast cancer are required to break gender norms that stress compliance,
nurturing, and putting the needs of others first to prioritize their own needs for care. Concurrently, they take on additional
nurturing roles to provide support to other women with breast cancer, relinquishing to some degree the individualistic approach
to life they found necessary to cope with their illness in the first place.
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Gayle A. SulikEmail: |