P Lindsay Chase‐lansdale
Biographic Data
| ID | 122149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Lindsay Chase‐lansdale |
| GIVEN NAMES | P Lindsay |
| FAMILY NAME | Chase‐lansdale |
| SIGNATURE | LANSDALE P L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 675 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Does adding parent education and workforce training to Head Start promote or interfere with children's development
This study explores the effects of the two-generation program CareerAdvance—which combines education and training for parents in healthcare with Head Start for children—on children's academic, language, mathematics, and inhibitory control followed for 3 years. The sample (collected in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 2011 to 2018) includes 147 children in the CareerAdvance group and 139 children in a matched comparison group (n = 286; 40% Black, 17%, White, …
The effects of a two-generation English as a second language (ESL) intervention on immigrant parents and children in Head Start
We present results of a randomized control trial of a two-generation English as a Second Language (ESL) program in which all families participated in Head Start while treatment parents also enrolled in a high dosage, family-focused ESL curriculum with supportive services. Examining 197 parent-child dyads among Spanish- (89%) and Zomi-speaking (11%) immigrant families, we found improvements in participant parents’ English reading skills and engage…
A Two-Generation Education Intervention and Children’s Attendance in Head Start
Two-generation human capital programs seek to promote the education of parents and children simultaneously. This study examines relations between family participation in CareerAdvance, which recruits parents of Head Start children into a workforce training program, and children’s Head Start attendance. The sample included 293 children (on average 4 years old) and their parents. After one semester, CareerAdvance children demonstrated higher rates …
A Two-Generation Human Capital Approach to Anti-poverty Policy
TERESA ECKRICH SOMMER, TERRI J. SABOL, ELISE CHOR, WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, P. LINDSAY CHASE-LANSDALE, JEANNE BROOKS-GUNN, MARIO L. SMALL, CHRISTOPHER KING, HIROKAZU YOSHIKAWA, A Two-Generation Human Capital Approach to Anti-Poverty Policy, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 3, Anti-Poverty Policy Initiatives for the United States (FEBRUARY 2018), pp. 118-143
Head Start, two-generation ESL services, and parent engagement
Parents' persistence and certification in a two-generation education and training program
Two-Generation Programs in the Twenty-First Century
Most of the authors in this issue of Future of Children focus on a single strategy for helping both adults and children that could become a component of two-generation programs. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, on the other hand, look at actual programs with an explicit two-generation focus that have been tried in the past or are currently under way. These explicitly two-generation programs have sought to build human capital across …
The Influence of Low-Income Children's Participation in Head Start on Their Parents’ Education and Employment
Head Start is the oldest and largest federally funded preschool program in the United States. From its inception in 1965, Head Start not only provided early childhood education, care, and services for children, but also sought to promote parents’ success. However, almost all evaluation studies of Head Start have focused solely on children's cognitive and social outcomes rather than on parents’ outcomes. The present study examines whether children…
Positive Youth, Healthy Adults
Long-term implications of welfare reform for the development of adolescents and young adults
Concerns about appearing prejudiced get under the skin
Is Maternal Marriage Beneficial for Low-Income Adolescents
The present study investigated the association of mothers' marriage and changes in young adolescents' cognitive and socioemotional development and changes in family processes. Analyses employed longitudinal data from the Three-City Study to track maternal partnerships for 860 lowincome adolescents (10-14 years-old in Wave 1) across a 16 month period. No short-term benefits or risks emerged for youth when mothers entered marriage, with few changes…
Early reading achievement of children in immigrant families
This article examines whether longitudinal reading trajectories vary by the generational status of immigrant children as they begin formal schooling through the 3rd grade. The results of the hierarchical linear model indicated that 1st and 2nd generation children (i.e., those born in a foreign country and those born in the United States to foreign-born parents, respectively) had higher achievement scores at the spring of kindergarten than did 3rd…
Maternal functioning, time, and money
Are certain preschoolers at risk in the era of welfare reform? The moderating role of children's temperament
Explaining Family Change and Variation
Twenty years ago, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) issued a request for proposals that resulted in the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), a unique survey valuable to a wide range of family scholars. This paper describes the efforts of an interdisciplinary group of family demographers to build on the progress enabled by the NSFH and many other theoretical and methodological innovations. Our work,…
Child Care and Low-Income Children's Development
A large literature has documented the influence of child care on young children's development, but few studies have examined low-income children in community care arrangements. Using data from Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study (N=204), this study examined the influence of child care quality and the extent of care on low-income children's (ages 2–4 years) cognitive and socioemotional development over time. Higher levels of child …
Welfare History, Sanctions, and Developmental Outcomes among Low‐Income Children and Youth
Using a representative sample of low‐income, urban preschoolers (n = 755) and adolescents (n = 1,130), this article addresses links among family welfare receipt, family processes, and child outcomes. For adolescents, family welfare receipt is related to decreased cognitive achievement and heightened behavioral and emotional problems. For preschoolers, both current and past welfare receipt are associated with problematic functioning. Families who …
Mothers' Transitions from Welfare to Work and the Well-Being of Preschoolers and Adolescents
Results from a longitudinal study of 2402 low-income families during the recent unprecedented era of welfare reform suggest that mothers' transitions off welfare and into employment are not associated with negative outcomes for preschoolers (ages 2 to 4 years) or young adolescents (ages 10 to 14 years). Indeed, no significant associations with mothers' welfare and employment transitions were found for preschoolers, and the dominant pattern was al…
Home sweet home(s)
Associations between histories of family disruption (residential moves and separations from parent figures) and adolescent adjustment (including educational, internalizing, externalizing, and sexual be-havior outcomes) were examined in a random sample of 267 African American girls from 3 urban poverty neighborhoods. Higher numbers of residential moves and parental separations significantly predicted greater adolescent adjustment problems after ho…
African American Adolescent Girls in Impoverished Communities
The relationship between parenting style and adolescent functioning was examined in a sample of 302 African American adolescent girls and their mothers who lived in impoverished neighborhoods. Although previous research has found that authoritative parenting, as compared with authoritarian, permissive, and disengaged parenting, is associated with positive adolescent outcomes in both European American, middle‐class and large multiethnic school‐bas…
Availability of Child Care in the United States
Lack of high-quality, affordable, and accessible child care is an often-cited impediment to a manageable balance between work and family. Researchers, however, have been restricted by a scarcity of data on the availability of child care across all U.S. communities. In this paper we describe and evaluate several indicators of child care availability that have been released by the U.S. Census Bureau over the last 15 years. Using community- and indi…
Sexual Intercourse and Pregnancy Among African American Girls in High-Poverty Neighborhoods
Data are used from a random sample of African American families in impoverished Chicago neighborhoods to address two questions: How well do modeling, supervision, and marital transition hypotheses explain the relationship between family structure and early sexual debut and pregnancy for disadvantaged Black female adolescents? Do higher levels of social support from parents and neighborhood adults decrease the risk of sexual activity for youth in …
Welfare Receipt, Financial Strain, and African‐American Adolescent Functioning
Using a random sample of African‐American adolescent girls in impoverished urban neighborhoods in Chicago, we consider income‐related predictors (poverty, financial strain, welfare receipt, and welfare exposure) of adolescents' job preparation and nonmarital childbearing risk. Maternal financial strain is the most consistent predictor, linked to poor school performance and greater sexual experience. Maternal welfare receipt predicts higher school…
An Insider View
This article presents African American adolescent girls' views of welfare and welfare reform at the cusp of welfare legislation in 1996. Interview data from a random sample of poor and low‐income families indicate that adolescents have a limited knowledge of basic welfare rules. Low‐income girls see welfare as an important safety net, yet they also have negative views of welfare recipients and the effects of welfare on recipients. The vast majori…
Effects of Parental Divorce on Mental Health Throughout the Life Course
The long-term effects of parental divorce on individuals' mental health after the transition to adulthood are examined using data from a British birth cohort that has been followed from birth to age 33. Growth-curve models and fixed-effects models are estimated. The results suggest that part of the negative effect of parental divorce on adults is a result of factors that were present before the parents 'marriages dissolved. The results also sugge…
Adolescent pregnancy and parenthood
This paper presents an overview of recent research and theory concerning adolescent sexual activity, pregnancy, and parenthood. Although the rate of teenage childbearing has decreased substantially since mid-century, increasing proportions of teenage mothers who are unmarried and receiving welfare have raised public concern about repercussions of young parenthood. New research with innovative methodologies is discussed which suggests that many of…
Parental Divorce in Childhood and Demographic Outcomes in Young Adulthood
We investigated the long-term effects of parental divorce in childhood on demographic outcomes in young adulthood, using a British longitudinal national survey of children. Our analyses control for predisruption characteristics of the child and the family, including emotional problems, cognitive’ achievement, and socioeconomic status. The results show that by age 23, those whose parents divorced were more likely to leave home because of friction,…
Home sweet home(s)
Associations between histories of family disruption (residential moves and separations from parent figures) and adolescent adjustment (including educational, internalizing, externalizing, and sexual be-havior outcomes) were examined in a random sample of 267 African American girls from 3 urban poverty neighborhoods. Higher numbers of residential moves and parental separations significantly predicted greater adolescent adjustment problems after ho…
Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
The data set known as Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (SLSY) offers unusual opportunuities for research on questions not easily purpued by developmental psychologists. This article provides a history of Children of the NLSY, describes the data set with special focus on the child outcome measures and a subset of maternal life history measures, highlights several of the research and policy relevant issues that may be addressed…
Mother or Market? Effects of Maternal Employment on the Intellectual Ability of 4-Year-Old Children
This article uses the 1986 Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set to investigate the impact of maternal employment on children's intellectual ability, as measured at the age of 4 by using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT). Results from multivariate regression analysis show a statistically significant adverse effect of mother's employment on children's intellectual ability, but only for boys in higher income famili…
Sexual Intercourse and Pregnancy Among African American Girls in High-Poverty Neighborhoods
Data are used from a random sample of African American families in impoverished Chicago neighborhoods to address two questions: How well do modeling, supervision, and marital transition hypotheses explain the relationship between family structure and early sexual debut and pregnancy for disadvantaged Black female adolescents? Do higher levels of social support from parents and neighborhood adults decrease the risk of sexual activity for youth in …
Early reading achievement of children in immigrant families
This article examines whether longitudinal reading trajectories vary by the generational status of immigrant children as they begin formal schooling through the 3rd grade. The results of the hierarchical linear model indicated that 1st and 2nd generation children (i.e., those born in a foreign country and those born in the United States to foreign-born parents, respectively) had higher achievement scores at the spring of kindergarten than did 3rd…
African American Adolescent Girls in Impoverished Communities
The relationship between parenting style and adolescent functioning was examined in a sample of 302 African American adolescent girls and their mothers who lived in impoverished neighborhoods. Although previous research has found that authoritative parenting, as compared with authoritarian, permissive, and disengaged parenting, is associated with positive adolescent outcomes in both European American, middle‐class and large multiethnic school‐bas…
Welfare Receipt, Financial Strain, and African‐American Adolescent Functioning
Using a random sample of African‐American adolescent girls in impoverished urban neighborhoods in Chicago, we consider income‐related predictors (poverty, financial strain, welfare receipt, and welfare exposure) of adolescents' job preparation and nonmarital childbearing risk. Maternal financial strain is the most consistent predictor, linked to poor school performance and greater sexual experience. Maternal welfare receipt predicts higher school…
Concerns about appearing prejudiced get under the skin
Explaining Family Change and Variation
Twenty years ago, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) issued a request for proposals that resulted in the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), a unique survey valuable to a wide range of family scholars. This paper describes the efforts of an interdisciplinary group of family demographers to build on the progress enabled by the NSFH and many other theoretical and methodological innovations. Our work,…
The Influence of Low-Income Children's Participation in Head Start on Their Parents’ Education and Employment
Head Start is the oldest and largest federally funded preschool program in the United States. From its inception in 1965, Head Start not only provided early childhood education, care, and services for children, but also sought to promote parents’ success. However, almost all evaluation studies of Head Start have focused solely on children's cognitive and social outcomes rather than on parents’ outcomes. The present study examines whether children…
Welfare History, Sanctions, and Developmental Outcomes among Low‐Income Children and Youth
Using a representative sample of low‐income, urban preschoolers (n = 755) and adolescents (n = 1,130), this article addresses links among family welfare receipt, family processes, and child outcomes. For adolescents, family welfare receipt is related to decreased cognitive achievement and heightened behavioral and emotional problems. For preschoolers, both current and past welfare receipt are associated with problematic functioning. Families who …
An Insider View
This article presents African American adolescent girls' views of welfare and welfare reform at the cusp of welfare legislation in 1996. Interview data from a random sample of poor and low‐income families indicate that adolescents have a limited knowledge of basic welfare rules. Low‐income girls see welfare as an important safety net, yet they also have negative views of welfare recipients and the effects of welfare on recipients. The vast majori…
Long-term implications of welfare reform for the development of adolescents and young adults
Maternal functioning, time, and money
Head Start, two-generation ESL services, and parent engagement
Parents' persistence and certification in a two-generation education and training program
Research and Programs for Adolescent Mothers
The literature on the effects of teenage parenthood on the adolescent mother herself, her child, and her mother is reviewed from the perspectives of ecological and family systems theories. Life course trajectories of the three family members and how changes due to early motherhood co-occur are described Emphasis is placed on missing links between what is known about the lives of these families and how services are provided. Recommendations are gi…
A Two-Generation Human Capital Approach to Anti-poverty Policy
TERESA ECKRICH SOMMER, TERRI J. SABOL, ELISE CHOR, WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, P. LINDSAY CHASE-LANSDALE, JEANNE BROOKS-GUNN, MARIO L. SMALL, CHRISTOPHER KING, HIROKAZU YOSHIKAWA, A Two-Generation Human Capital Approach to Anti-Poverty Policy, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 3, Anti-Poverty Policy Initiatives for the United States (FEBRUARY 2018), pp. 118-143
Mother or Market? Effects of Maternal Employment on the Intellectual Ability of 4-Year-Old Children
This article uses the 1986 Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set to investigate the impact of maternal employment on children's intellectual ability, as measured at the age of 4 by using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT). Results from multivariate regression analysis show a statistically significant adverse effect of mother's employment on children's intellectual ability, but only for boys in higher income famili…
Longitudinal Studies of Effects of Divorce on Children in Great Britain and the United States
National, longitudinal surveys from Great Britain and the United States were used to investigate the effects of divorce on children. In both studies, a subsample of children who were in two-parent families during the initial interview (at age 7 in the British data and at ages 7 to 11 in the U.S. data) were followed through the next interview (at age 11 and ages 11 to 16, respectively). At both time points in the British data, parents and teachers…
Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
The data set known as Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (SLSY) offers unusual opportunuities for research on questions not easily purpued by developmental psychologists. This article provides a history of Children of the NLSY, describes the data set with special focus on the child outcome measures and a subset of maternal life history measures, highlights several of the research and policy relevant issues that may be addressed…
Research and Programs for Adolescent Mothers
The literature on the effects of teenage parenthood on the adolescent mother herself, her child, and her mother is reviewed from the perspectives of ecological and family systems theories. Life course trajectories of the three family members and how changes due to early motherhood co-occur are described Emphasis is placed on missing links between what is known about the lives of these families and how services are provided. Recommendations are gi…
Young African-American Multigenerational Families in Poverty
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Elise S. Zamsky, Young African-American Multigenerational Families in Poverty: Quality of Mothering and Grandmothering, Child Development, Vol. 65, No. 2, Children and Poverty (Apr., 1994), pp. 373-393
The Long-Term Effects of Parental Divorce on the Mental Health of Young Adults
Parental Divorce in Childhood and Demographic Outcomes in Young Adulthood
We investigated the long-term effects of parental divorce in childhood on demographic outcomes in young adulthood, using a British longitudinal national survey of children. Our analyses control for predisruption characteristics of the child and the family, including emotional problems, cognitive’ achievement, and socioeconomic status. The results show that by age 23, those whose parents divorced were more likely to leave home because of friction,…
Young Mothers Living with Grandmothers and Living Apart
(1997). Young Mothers Living with Grandmothers and Living Apart: How Neighborhood and Household Contexts Relate to Multigenerational Coresidence in African American Families. Applied Developmental Science: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 89-106
Adolescent pregnancy and parenthood
This paper presents an overview of recent research and theory concerning adolescent sexual activity, pregnancy, and parenthood. Although the rate of teenage childbearing has decreased substantially since mid-century, increasing proportions of teenage mothers who are unmarried and receiving welfare have raised public concern about repercussions of young parenthood. New research with innovative methodologies is discussed which suggests that many of…
Effects of Parental Divorce on Mental Health Throughout the Life Course
The long-term effects of parental divorce on individuals' mental health after the transition to adulthood are examined using data from a British birth cohort that has been followed from birth to age 33. Growth-curve models and fixed-effects models are estimated. The results suggest that part of the negative effect of parental divorce on adults is a result of factors that were present before the parents 'marriages dissolved. The results also sugge…
Stability and change in paternal involvement among urban African American fathers.
Urban African American fathers' involvement with their children born outside of marriage is assessed through maternal reports. Multivariable composites of paternal involvement indicate that about half of unmarried fathers are highly involved at the time of birth and when children are preschool age, and half are uninvolved. However, nearly 40% of fathers move into or out of active parenting during this time. Multinomial logit analyses indicate tha…
Welfare Receipt, Financial Strain, and African‐American Adolescent Functioning
Using a random sample of African‐American adolescent girls in impoverished urban neighborhoods in Chicago, we consider income‐related predictors (poverty, financial strain, welfare receipt, and welfare exposure) of adolescents' job preparation and nonmarital childbearing risk. Maternal financial strain is the most consistent predictor, linked to poor school performance and greater sexual experience. Maternal welfare receipt predicts higher school…
An Insider View
This article presents African American adolescent girls' views of welfare and welfare reform at the cusp of welfare legislation in 1996. Interview data from a random sample of poor and low‐income families indicate that adolescents have a limited knowledge of basic welfare rules. Low‐income girls see welfare as an important safety net, yet they also have negative views of welfare recipients and the effects of welfare on recipients. The vast majori…
African American Adolescent Girls in Impoverished Communities
The relationship between parenting style and adolescent functioning was examined in a sample of 302 African American adolescent girls and their mothers who lived in impoverished neighborhoods. Although previous research has found that authoritative parenting, as compared with authoritarian, permissive, and disengaged parenting, is associated with positive adolescent outcomes in both European American, middle‐class and large multiethnic school‐bas…
Availability of Child Care in the United States
Lack of high-quality, affordable, and accessible child care is an often-cited impediment to a manageable balance between work and family. Researchers, however, have been restricted by a scarcity of data on the availability of child care across all U.S. communities. In this paper we describe and evaluate several indicators of child care availability that have been released by the U.S. Census Bureau over the last 15 years. Using community- and indi…
Sexual Intercourse and Pregnancy Among African American Girls in High-Poverty Neighborhoods
Data are used from a random sample of African American families in impoverished Chicago neighborhoods to address two questions: How well do modeling, supervision, and marital transition hypotheses explain the relationship between family structure and early sexual debut and pregnancy for disadvantaged Black female adolescents? Do higher levels of social support from parents and neighborhood adults decrease the risk of sexual activity for youth in …
Home sweet home(s)
Associations between histories of family disruption (residential moves and separations from parent figures) and adolescent adjustment (including educational, internalizing, externalizing, and sexual be-havior outcomes) were examined in a random sample of 267 African American girls from 3 urban poverty neighborhoods. Higher numbers of residential moves and parental separations significantly predicted greater adolescent adjustment problems after ho…
Mothers' Transitions from Welfare to Work and the Well-Being of Preschoolers and Adolescents
Results from a longitudinal study of 2402 low-income families during the recent unprecedented era of welfare reform suggest that mothers' transitions off welfare and into employment are not associated with negative outcomes for preschoolers (ages 2 to 4 years) or young adolescents (ages 10 to 14 years). Indeed, no significant associations with mothers' welfare and employment transitions were found for preschoolers, and the dominant pattern was al…
Child Care and Low-Income Children's Development
A large literature has documented the influence of child care on young children's development, but few studies have examined low-income children in community care arrangements. Using data from Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study (N=204), this study examined the influence of child care quality and the extent of care on low-income children's (ages 2–4 years) cognitive and socioemotional development over time. Higher levels of child …
Welfare History, Sanctions, and Developmental Outcomes among Low‐Income Children and Youth
Using a representative sample of low‐income, urban preschoolers (n = 755) and adolescents (n = 1,130), this article addresses links among family welfare receipt, family processes, and child outcomes. For adolescents, family welfare receipt is related to decreased cognitive achievement and heightened behavioral and emotional problems. For preschoolers, both current and past welfare receipt are associated with problematic functioning. Families who …
Explaining Family Change and Variation
Twenty years ago, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) issued a request for proposals that resulted in the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), a unique survey valuable to a wide range of family scholars. This paper describes the efforts of an interdisciplinary group of family demographers to build on the progress enabled by the NSFH and many other theoretical and methodological innovations. Our work,…
Are certain preschoolers at risk in the era of welfare reform? The moderating role of children's temperament
Maternal functioning, time, and money
Early reading achievement of children in immigrant families
This article examines whether longitudinal reading trajectories vary by the generational status of immigrant children as they begin formal schooling through the 3rd grade. The results of the hierarchical linear model indicated that 1st and 2nd generation children (i.e., those born in a foreign country and those born in the United States to foreign-born parents, respectively) had higher achievement scores at the spring of kindergarten than did 3rd…
Is Maternal Marriage Beneficial for Low-Income Adolescents
The present study investigated the association of mothers' marriage and changes in young adolescents' cognitive and socioemotional development and changes in family processes. Analyses employed longitudinal data from the Three-City Study to track maternal partnerships for 860 lowincome adolescents (10-14 years-old in Wave 1) across a 16 month period. No short-term benefits or risks emerged for youth when mothers entered marriage, with few changes…
Psychology (34 works) · Developmental psychology (30 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (16 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (12 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (12 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (11 works)