Elizabeth C Cooksey
Biographic Data
| ID | 103699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth C Cooksey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth C |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooksey |
| SIGNATURE | COOKSEY E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6919-8375 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 431 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Serpent in the Garden: Amish Sexuality in a Changing World
When I first started reading this book, I had reservations. The Amish (not that one can do justice to the many nuances that exist within Amish communities by placing them under this single umbrella term) are a closed society and I was skeptical that anyone would have the knowledge and expertise to write about very private behaviors in a reserved and secluded population in a way that would be both respectful and informative for both scholars and l…
The Lives of Amish Women, by Karen M. JOHNSON-Weiner
Women have all too often been relegated to ancillary positions in historical writings of mainstream America. They seem to lurk like ghostly shadows behind the well-defined men they grow up with, marry, raise, live, and work with; their roles are seen as subsidiary and unimportant, and their contributions eclipsed. The same criticism can be leveled at writings of the Amish, with one or two bold exceptions. By setting Amish women at the center of t…
Racial disparities in health among nonpoor African Americans and Hispanics: The role of acute and chronic discrimination
Fertility: Adolescent
Adolescent fertility rates have declined significantly throughout most countries of the world over the past few decades. Adolescent fertility still remains of concern, however, especially when girls in their early teens have babies. This entry presents information on the magnitude of recent declines, mortality and morbidity risks faced by adolescents who get pregnant and either abort or carry their babies to term, health and developmental risks t…
Introduction to Special National Longitudinal Surveys Issue
Cohabitation Expectations Among Young Adults in the United States: Do They Match Behavior
Does Nonmarital Childbearing and Mother's Later Marriage Influence Child Health in Adolescence
Mothers' Union Histories and the Mental and Physical Health of Adolescents Born to Unmarried Mothers
As nonmarital childbearing becomes a dominant pathway to family formation, understanding its long-term consequences for children's well-being is increasingly important. Analysis of linked mother-child data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicates a negative association of having been born to a never-married mother with adolescent self-assessed health but not with depressive symptoms. We also consider the role of mothers' subs…
Juvenile Delinquency and Teenage Pregnancy: A Comparison of Ecological Risk Profiles Among Midwestern White and Black Female Juvenile Offenders
The authors examined ecological risk factors associated with teen pregnancy with a sample of 1,190 court-involved female juvenile offenders between 11 and 18 years of age. Data were obtained from five Midwestern juvenile county courts using a recently developed youth risk assessment instrument called the global risk assessment device (GRAD). In line with past research on teen pregnancy, the authors found that young African American female offende…
Nonmarital Childbearing, Union History, and Women's Health at Midlife
Despite high rates of nonmarital childbearing in the United States, little is known about the health of women who have nonmarital births. We use data from the NLSY79 to examine differences in age 40 self-assessed health between women who had a premarital birth and those whose first birth occurred within marriage. We then differentiate women with a premarital first birth according to their subsequent union histories and estimate the effect of marr…
Fertility: Adolescent
Adolescent fertility refers to the childbearing of women who are less than 20 years old. Despite recent declines in adolescent fertility levels throughout the world, over 15 million babies are born to adolescent women each year. Adolescent fertility rates (defined as the annual number of live births to girls aged 15–19 per 1,000 girls aged 15–19) vary considerably by world region. The worldwide average for the period 2000–5 is estimated at approx…
Friendships and Early Relationships: Links to Sexual Initiation among American Adolescents Born to Young Mothers
Prior social networking is an important element in predicting early sexual activity. Overall, youth whose mothers gave birth at young ages remain sexually inexperienced into middle adolescence, but certain subgroups are more likely than others to initiate early sexual activity
Young Adult Occupational Achievement: Early Expectations Versus Behavioral Reality
We examine the stability of occupational expectations during the first 7 years after high school and their correspondence with occupations held at age 30, using data from the Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. Our results show substantial instability in occupational expectations during the late teen years and the early 20s. No matter when expectations are measured, even as late as age 25, fewer than half of the young men and wom…
Parenting from a distance: The effects of paternal characteristics on contact between nonresidential fathers and their children
Changes in marital and fertility behavior have influenced the role of father for many men. We use data from the first two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households to examine various sociodemographic, situational, and attitudinal characteristics that might influence the degree of contact between nonresidential fathers and their minor children. We tap two different dimensions of distance parenting and find that although several varia…
Fathers and absent fathers: Sociodemographic similarities in britain and the United States
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey and the National Survey of Families and Households in the United States, we present a sociodemographic profile of fathers and compare the determinants of absent fatherhood in each country. Although fatherhood has a younger profile in the United States, especially for blacks, predictors of fathers’ residency with their children are remarkably similar in the two countries. In both countries, the st…
The Changing Impact of Religion on the Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior of Adolescent Women in the United States
Karin L. Brewster, Elizabeth C. Cooksey, David K. Guilkey, Ronald R. Rindfuss, The Changing Impact of Religion on the Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior of Adolescent Women in the United States, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 60, No. 2 (May, 1998), pp. 493-504
Consequences of Young Mothers' Marital Histories for Children's Cognitive Development
The research attention paid to adolescent parents and their children stems, in part, from a concern over potentially missed opportunities and hence curtailed achievement for young parents and a worry that this will increase odds of poor developmental outcomes for children. Using data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this article focuses on marital histories of young mothers and whether family structure into which children of young moth…
Life-Course Effects of Work and Family Circumstances on Children
How do work and family circumstances shape young children's emotional well-being and behavior? To what extent can parental resources act as buffers against adverse effects? We investigate these questions using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for a synthetic cohort of 2,342 six- and seven-year-old children born to a national cohort of young women between 1979 and 1984. As suggested by a life-course perspective, both maternal re…
Spending Time with His Kids: Effects of Family Structure on Fathers' and Children's Lives
Elizabeth C. Cooksey, Michelle M. Fondell, Spending Time with His Kids: Effects of Family Structure on Fathers' and Children's Lives, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Aug., 1996), pp. 693-707
The Initiation of Adolescent Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior During Changing Times
This paper examines changes in the initiation of adolescent sexual and contraceptive behavior in the United States between 1978 and 1988. Since a number of contextual changes occurred during this time period including a focusing of public attention on adolescent pregnancy along with the widespread publicity surrounding AIDS, we expected that the response to these events not only would change over time, but would also vary across social groups. Us…
The First Year after College: Activities and Their Subsequent Effects
Every year on college campuses student newspapers run articles on the anticipated postgraduate activities of their seniors. Although the slant of the articles changes from year to year depending on events in the broader society, there is often the unstated assumption that what one does in the first year after college may have important implications later on. Entry-level jobs will launch promising careers. Graduate school will qualify students for…
Not Yet Pregnant: Infertile Couples in Contemporary America
Infant and child mortality in rural Egypt
This research examines determinants of infant and child mortality in rural Egypt, primarily the effects of household economic status and the availability of health services. Certain features of the health service environment affect survival in the neonatal period. In early childhood, survival chances improve markedly as income increases and if the household depends almost exclusively on employment income. In infancy and in early childhood, mortal…
Infant and child mortality in rural Egypt
This research examines determinants of infant and child mortality in rural Egypt, primarily the effects of household economic status and the availability of health services. Certain features of the health service environment affect survival in the neonatal period. In early childhood, survival chances improve markedly as income increases and if the household depends almost exclusively on employment income. In infancy and in early childhood, mortal…
Factors in the Resolution of Adolescent Premarital Pregnancies
This article examines the effect of family background factors on first premarital pregnancy resolution for adolescents in the United States. Teenage fertility constitutes a sizable percentage of total fertility, and each outcome has a potentially different type of family structure associated with it. Not only are there marked racial/ethnic differences in the ways such pregnancies are resolved, but the effects of family structure, age at first con…
Parenting from a distance: The effects of paternal characteristics on contact between nonresidential fathers and their children
Changes in marital and fertility behavior have influenced the role of father for many men. We use data from the first two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households to examine various sociodemographic, situational, and attitudinal characteristics that might influence the degree of contact between nonresidential fathers and their minor children. We tap two different dimensions of distance parenting and find that although several varia…
Racial disparities in health among nonpoor African Americans and Hispanics: The role of acute and chronic discrimination
Spending Time with His Kids: Effects of Family Structure on Fathers' and Children's Lives
Elizabeth C. Cooksey, Michelle M. Fondell, Spending Time with His Kids: Effects of Family Structure on Fathers' and Children's Lives, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Aug., 1996), pp. 693-707
Nonmarital Childbearing, Union History, and Women's Health at Midlife
Despite high rates of nonmarital childbearing in the United States, little is known about the health of women who have nonmarital births. We use data from the NLSY79 to examine differences in age 40 self-assessed health between women who had a premarital birth and those whose first birth occurred within marriage. We then differentiate women with a premarital first birth according to their subsequent union histories and estimate the effect of marr…
The Changing Impact of Religion on the Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior of Adolescent Women in the United States
Karin L. Brewster, Elizabeth C. Cooksey, David K. Guilkey, Ronald R. Rindfuss, The Changing Impact of Religion on the Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior of Adolescent Women in the United States, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 60, No. 2 (May, 1998), pp. 493-504
Young Adult Occupational Achievement: Early Expectations Versus Behavioral Reality
We examine the stability of occupational expectations during the first 7 years after high school and their correspondence with occupations held at age 30, using data from the Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. Our results show substantial instability in occupational expectations during the late teen years and the early 20s. No matter when expectations are measured, even as late as age 25, fewer than half of the young men and wom…
Consequences of Young Mothers' Marital Histories for Children's Cognitive Development
The research attention paid to adolescent parents and their children stems, in part, from a concern over potentially missed opportunities and hence curtailed achievement for young parents and a worry that this will increase odds of poor developmental outcomes for children. Using data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this article focuses on marital histories of young mothers and whether family structure into which children of young moth…
Factors in the Resolution of Adolescent Premarital Pregnancies
This article examines the effect of family background factors on first premarital pregnancy resolution for adolescents in the United States. Teenage fertility constitutes a sizable percentage of total fertility, and each outcome has a potentially different type of family structure associated with it. Not only are there marked racial/ethnic differences in the ways such pregnancies are resolved, but the effects of family structure, age at first con…
The Initiation of Adolescent Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior During Changing Times
This paper examines changes in the initiation of adolescent sexual and contraceptive behavior in the United States between 1978 and 1988. Since a number of contextual changes occurred during this time period including a focusing of public attention on adolescent pregnancy along with the widespread publicity surrounding AIDS, we expected that the response to these events not only would change over time, but would also vary across social groups. Us…
Household income and child survival in Egypt
This article uses household-level economic and fertility survey data to examine the relationship between household income and child survival in Egypt. Income has little effect on infant mortality but is inversely related to mortality in early childhood. The relationship persists with other associated socioeconomic variables controlled. The mechanisms underlying the income effects are not evident from this analysis: income differentials in sources…
Life-Course Effects of Work and Family Circumstances on Children
How do work and family circumstances shape young children's emotional well-being and behavior? To what extent can parental resources act as buffers against adverse effects? We investigate these questions using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for a synthetic cohort of 2,342 six- and seven-year-old children born to a national cohort of young women between 1979 and 1984. As suggested by a life-course perspective, both maternal re…
Friendships and Early Relationships: Links to Sexual Initiation among American Adolescents Born to Young Mothers
Prior social networking is an important element in predicting early sexual activity. Overall, youth whose mothers gave birth at young ages remain sexually inexperienced into middle adolescence, but certain subgroups are more likely than others to initiate early sexual activity
Birth Weight and the Effects of Birth Spacing and Breastfeeding on Infant Mortality
Analyses previously reported, based on data from the World Fertility Survey (WFS), are replicated here with data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey. Comparison of results, when data limitations inherent in the World Fertility Surveys are reproduced or relaxed, suggests that these limitations cause little distortion, and thus bolsters confidence in the validity of results based on WFS data in which these limitations are inescapable. Generalizat…
Fathers and absent fathers: Sociodemographic similarities in britain and the United States
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey and the National Survey of Families and Households in the United States, we present a sociodemographic profile of fathers and compare the determinants of absent fatherhood in each country. Although fatherhood has a younger profile in the United States, especially for blacks, predictors of fathers’ residency with their children are remarkably similar in the two countries. In both countries, the st…
Cohabitation Expectations Among Young Adults in the United States: Do They Match Behavior
Mothers' Union Histories and the Mental and Physical Health of Adolescents Born to Unmarried Mothers
As nonmarital childbearing becomes a dominant pathway to family formation, understanding its long-term consequences for children's well-being is increasingly important. Analysis of linked mother-child data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicates a negative association of having been born to a never-married mother with adolescent self-assessed health but not with depressive symptoms. We also consider the role of mothers' subs…
Juvenile Delinquency and Teenage Pregnancy: A Comparison of Ecological Risk Profiles Among Midwestern White and Black Female Juvenile Offenders
The authors examined ecological risk factors associated with teen pregnancy with a sample of 1,190 court-involved female juvenile offenders between 11 and 18 years of age. Data were obtained from five Midwestern juvenile county courts using a recently developed youth risk assessment instrument called the global risk assessment device (GRAD). In line with past research on teen pregnancy, the authors found that young African American female offende…
Birth Weight and the Effects of Birth Spacing and Breastfeeding on Infant Mortality
Analyses previously reported, based on data from the World Fertility Survey (WFS), are replicated here with data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey. Comparison of results, when data limitations inherent in the World Fertility Surveys are reproduced or relaxed, suggests that these limitations cause little distortion, and thus bolsters confidence in the validity of results based on WFS data in which these limitations are inescapable. Generalizat…
Household income and child survival in Egypt
This article uses household-level economic and fertility survey data to examine the relationship between household income and child survival in Egypt. Income has little effect on infant mortality but is inversely related to mortality in early childhood. The relationship persists with other associated socioeconomic variables controlled. The mechanisms underlying the income effects are not evident from this analysis: income differentials in sources…
Factors in the Resolution of Adolescent Premarital Pregnancies
This article examines the effect of family background factors on first premarital pregnancy resolution for adolescents in the United States. Teenage fertility constitutes a sizable percentage of total fertility, and each outcome has a potentially different type of family structure associated with it. Not only are there marked racial/ethnic differences in the ways such pregnancies are resolved, but the effects of family structure, age at first con…
Infant and child mortality in rural Egypt
This research examines determinants of infant and child mortality in rural Egypt, primarily the effects of household economic status and the availability of health services. Certain features of the health service environment affect survival in the neonatal period. In early childhood, survival chances improve markedly as income increases and if the household depends almost exclusively on employment income. In infancy and in early childhood, mortal…
Infant and child mortality in rural Egypt
This research examines determinants of infant and child mortality in rural Egypt, primarily the effects of household economic status and the availability of health services. Certain features of the health service environment affect survival in the neonatal period. In early childhood, survival chances improve markedly as income increases and if the household depends almost exclusively on employment income. In infancy and in early childhood, mortal…
Not Yet Pregnant: Infertile Couples in Contemporary America
The First Year after College: Activities and Their Subsequent Effects
Every year on college campuses student newspapers run articles on the anticipated postgraduate activities of their seniors. Although the slant of the articles changes from year to year depending on events in the broader society, there is often the unstated assumption that what one does in the first year after college may have important implications later on. Entry-level jobs will launch promising careers. Graduate school will qualify students for…
Spending Time with His Kids: Effects of Family Structure on Fathers' and Children's Lives
Elizabeth C. Cooksey, Michelle M. Fondell, Spending Time with His Kids: Effects of Family Structure on Fathers' and Children's Lives, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Aug., 1996), pp. 693-707
The Initiation of Adolescent Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior During Changing Times
This paper examines changes in the initiation of adolescent sexual and contraceptive behavior in the United States between 1978 and 1988. Since a number of contextual changes occurred during this time period including a focusing of public attention on adolescent pregnancy along with the widespread publicity surrounding AIDS, we expected that the response to these events not only would change over time, but would also vary across social groups. Us…
Consequences of Young Mothers' Marital Histories for Children's Cognitive Development
The research attention paid to adolescent parents and their children stems, in part, from a concern over potentially missed opportunities and hence curtailed achievement for young parents and a worry that this will increase odds of poor developmental outcomes for children. Using data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this article focuses on marital histories of young mothers and whether family structure into which children of young moth…
Life-Course Effects of Work and Family Circumstances on Children
How do work and family circumstances shape young children's emotional well-being and behavior? To what extent can parental resources act as buffers against adverse effects? We investigate these questions using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for a synthetic cohort of 2,342 six- and seven-year-old children born to a national cohort of young women between 1979 and 1984. As suggested by a life-course perspective, both maternal re…
Parenting from a distance: The effects of paternal characteristics on contact between nonresidential fathers and their children
Changes in marital and fertility behavior have influenced the role of father for many men. We use data from the first two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households to examine various sociodemographic, situational, and attitudinal characteristics that might influence the degree of contact between nonresidential fathers and their minor children. We tap two different dimensions of distance parenting and find that although several varia…
Fathers and absent fathers: Sociodemographic similarities in britain and the United States
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey and the National Survey of Families and Households in the United States, we present a sociodemographic profile of fathers and compare the determinants of absent fatherhood in each country. Although fatherhood has a younger profile in the United States, especially for blacks, predictors of fathers’ residency with their children are remarkably similar in the two countries. In both countries, the st…
The Changing Impact of Religion on the Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior of Adolescent Women in the United States
Karin L. Brewster, Elizabeth C. Cooksey, David K. Guilkey, Ronald R. Rindfuss, The Changing Impact of Religion on the Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior of Adolescent Women in the United States, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 60, No. 2 (May, 1998), pp. 493-504
Young Adult Occupational Achievement: Early Expectations Versus Behavioral Reality
We examine the stability of occupational expectations during the first 7 years after high school and their correspondence with occupations held at age 30, using data from the Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. Our results show substantial instability in occupational expectations during the late teen years and the early 20s. No matter when expectations are measured, even as late as age 25, fewer than half of the young men and wom…
Friendships and Early Relationships: Links to Sexual Initiation among American Adolescents Born to Young Mothers
Prior social networking is an important element in predicting early sexual activity. Overall, youth whose mothers gave birth at young ages remain sexually inexperienced into middle adolescence, but certain subgroups are more likely than others to initiate early sexual activity
Fertility: Adolescent
Adolescent fertility refers to the childbearing of women who are less than 20 years old. Despite recent declines in adolescent fertility levels throughout the world, over 15 million babies are born to adolescent women each year. Adolescent fertility rates (defined as the annual number of live births to girls aged 15–19 per 1,000 girls aged 15–19) vary considerably by world region. The worldwide average for the period 2000–5 is estimated at approx…
Juvenile Delinquency and Teenage Pregnancy: A Comparison of Ecological Risk Profiles Among Midwestern White and Black Female Juvenile Offenders
The authors examined ecological risk factors associated with teen pregnancy with a sample of 1,190 court-involved female juvenile offenders between 11 and 18 years of age. Data were obtained from five Midwestern juvenile county courts using a recently developed youth risk assessment instrument called the global risk assessment device (GRAD). In line with past research on teen pregnancy, the authors found that young African American female offende…
Nonmarital Childbearing, Union History, and Women's Health at Midlife
Despite high rates of nonmarital childbearing in the United States, little is known about the health of women who have nonmarital births. We use data from the NLSY79 to examine differences in age 40 self-assessed health between women who had a premarital birth and those whose first birth occurred within marriage. We then differentiate women with a premarital first birth according to their subsequent union histories and estimate the effect of marr…
Does Nonmarital Childbearing and Mother's Later Marriage Influence Child Health in Adolescence
Mothers' Union Histories and the Mental and Physical Health of Adolescents Born to Unmarried Mothers
As nonmarital childbearing becomes a dominant pathway to family formation, understanding its long-term consequences for children's well-being is increasingly important. Analysis of linked mother-child data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicates a negative association of having been born to a never-married mother with adolescent self-assessed health but not with depressive symptoms. We also consider the role of mothers' subs…
Cohabitation Expectations Among Young Adults in the United States: Do They Match Behavior
Introduction to Special National Longitudinal Surveys Issue
Fertility: Adolescent
Adolescent fertility rates have declined significantly throughout most countries of the world over the past few decades. Adolescent fertility still remains of concern, however, especially when girls in their early teens have babies. This entry presents information on the magnitude of recent declines, mortality and morbidity risks faced by adolescents who get pregnant and either abort or carry their babies to term, health and developmental risks t…
Racial disparities in health among nonpoor African Americans and Hispanics: The role of acute and chronic discrimination
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