Steven T Cook

Datos Biográficos

ID235978
NOMBRESteven T Cook
NOMBRESSteven T
APELLIDOCook
FIRMACOOK S T
AFILIACIONESInstitute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS154
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1998
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2017
ÍNDICE H5

  • The Growth in Shared Custody in the United States

    Open AccessD R Meyer, Maria Cancian et al.ARTICLEFamily Court Review2017

    We document the dramatic decline in the United States of mother sole custody arrangements following divorce. Our empirical analysis uses Wisconsin court records data spanning more than two decades (1988–2010). Updating earlier analyses that showed significant increases in shared custody, we estimate that shared custody (where children spend at least 25% of time with each parent) has now replaced sole‐mother custody as the most common post‐divorce…

  • Making parents pay

    Open AccessMaria Cancian, Steven T Cook et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2017Citada por: 7Referencias: 21

    Most families in the child protective services system also interact with the child support enforcement system. This study exploits a natural experiment in Wisconsin, created by the state's large regional variation in child support referral policy, to estimate a potentially important effect of child support enforcement on the duration of out-of-home foster care placement. The effect we examine is whether requiring parents to pay support to offset …

  • Who Gets Custody Now? Dramatic Changes in Children’s Living Arrangements After Divorce

    Open AccessMaria Cancian, D R Meyer et al.ARTICLEDemography2014Citada por: 37Referencias: 15

    This article reexamines the living arrangements of children following their parents’ divorce, using Wisconsin Court Records, updating an analysis that showed relatively small but significant increases in shared custody in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These changes have accelerated markedly in the intervening years: between 1988 and 2008, the proportion of mothers granted sole physical custody fell substantially, the proportion of parents shari…

  • The Evolution of Family Complexity from the Perspective of Nonmarital Children

    Open AccessMaria Cancian, D R Meyer et al.ARTICLEDemography2011Citada por: 48Referencias: 33

    We document the incidence and evolution of family complexity from the perspective of children. Following a cohort of firstborn children whose mothers were not married at the time of their birth, we consider family structure changes over the first 10 years of the child’s life—considering both full and half-siblings who are coresidential or who live in another household. We rely on detailed longitudinal administrative data from Wisconsin that inclu…

  • Multiple‐Partner Fertility

    D R Meyer, Maria Cancian et al.ARTICLESocial Service Review2005Citada por: 57

    Family complexity that results when adults have children with multiple partners (multiple‐partner fertility) is quite common. It also has important implications for understanding child support outcomes and for designing and evaluating welfare and family policy. Using a unique set of merged administrative data, this article provides the first comprehensive documentation of levels of family complexity among a broad sample of welfare recipients. The…

  • Permanent Exits from Public Assistance

    Gary D Sandefur, Steven T Cook et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1998Citada por: 5

    This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to answer two questions raised in the recent debate over welfare reform: (1) Is the length of time that a woman receives Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) associated with the likelihood of permanently leaving AFDC? (2) Are marital status, childbearing, and qualifications for work associated with permanently leaving AFDC? We define a permanent exit as leaving the AF…