Taryn W Morrissey
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 133333 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Taryn W Morrissey |
| PRENOMES | Taryn W |
| SOBRENOME | Morrissey |
| ASSINATURA | MORRISSEY T W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2916-0820 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 132 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Glass Is Half Full
Highlights Employed, social welfare–connected mothers experience a substantial reduction in earnings around a child's birth. Social welfare programs, assuming full take-up, can offset these lost earnings after birth but not during pregnancy. Most social welfare benefits available around birth are nutrition assistance, which are not fungible. These mothers spend about six months out of the labor force, with Black mothers returning earlier, on aver…
Participation across public programs among children in low-income families
The effect of New York State’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Program on birth outcomes
State-Level Spending on Children Associated with Unequal Benefits to School Readiness
Public spending on children is associated with fewer parents' concerns about their children's development, but less so among disadvantaged families. It is possible that public spending levels are not adequate to narrow disparities in early opportunity and outcomes
Early Care and Education Workforce Compensation, Program Quality, and Child Outcomes
Research Findings: Despite the importance of early care and education (ECE) for children’s early learning and parents’ labor force participation, workers average low pay with few benefits. The precarity of work and low compensation contribute to staff turnover and other problems, with potential implications for staff well-being, children’s development, and parents’ employment. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated problems relating to the supply of a…
Dignity of Work and at Work
Latino immigrants living in the United States were highly vulnerable to the health and economic consequences brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. We use the conceptual framing of workplace dignity, worth that is acknowledged based on performance of job responsibilities, to explore Latino immigrants' experiences during the early months of the pandemic. A qualitative study was conducted with La Clínica del Pueblo ( La Clínica ), a community health …
The Impacts of New York State’s Paid Family Leave Policy on Parents’ Sleep and Exercise
Earnings and Employment Patterns Following Child-Care Subsidy Receipt
Employment and earnings instability is common, particularly among low-income families, and can interfere with child-care arrangements. Child-care subsidies are designed to support parents’ labor force participation and earnings, but the subsidy program’s reach is limited, and enrollment may be hindered by changes in parents’ employment or income; in turn, changes in child-care subsidy participation may lead to changes in parents’ employment statu…
The spatial inequality of early care and education centers
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Short-Term Changes in Parents’ Time Investments in Children
Patterns of Earnings and Employment by Worker Sex, Race, and Ethnicity Using State Administrative Data
Parent-Child Time During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities
This study links county-level early care and education (ECE) program, economic, and demographic data to child-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 2010-2011 to examine geographic variation in ECE program participation and provision. We find that public ECE programs, particularly Head Start, occupy a larger role in nonmetropolitan communities than in metropolitan areas. By contrast, children in rural counti…
Room to grow
SNAP participation and the health and health care utilisation of low-income adults and children
Objective: This article examined whether participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) produced changes to adult and child health and health care utilisation during a period of economic recession. Design: Instrumental variables analysis relying on variation in state SNAP policies to isolate exogenous variation in household SNAP participation. Setting: Nationally representative data on child and adult health from the 2008 t…
Hay que seguir en la lucha ”
Latinx immigrants have poorer access to health care, compared to non-Latinx Whites. Federally-Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) provide clinical and community programing to address their clients' health needs. One mechanism by which FQHC's may strengthen Latinx immigrant well-being is by promoting their individual and community resilience. We partnered with La Clínica del Pueblo (La Clínica) , an FQHC serving Latinx immigrants in Washington, DC an…
Household economic instability
Neighborhood disadvantage and children’s cognitive skill trajectories
Food Insecurity and Child Health
OBJECTIVES: Food insecurity is an important public health problem facing children in the United States. Although a number of previous studies suggest that food insecurity has negative impacts on health, these studies have not dealt thoroughly with issues of selection bias. We use propensity scoring techniques to approximate the causal effects of food insecurity on children's health and health care use outcomes. METHODS: = 29 341). Using inverse p…
Center-based early care and education and children’s school readiness
Neighborhoods provide resources that may affect children's achievement or moderate the influences of other developmental contexts, such as early care and education (ECE). Using a sample (N ≈ 12,430) from the 2010-2011 Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort, merged with census tract-level poverty data from the 2008-2012 American Community Survey, this article examines associations between center-based ECE participation, neighborhoo…
Neighborhood Poverty and Children's Academic Skills and Behavior in Early Elementary School
Neighborhoods provide resources that may affect children's cognitive and behavioral outcomes. However, it is unclear to what degree associations between neighborhood disadvantage and outcomes persist into elementary school and whether neighborhood disadvantage interacts with household disadvantage. Using data from the 2010-2011 Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (N = 15,100 children) merged with census data from the American C…
Child care and parent labor force participation
Economic Instability, Food Insecurity, and Child Health in the Wake of the Great Recession
Although there is a wealth of research on the relationship between income level and employment status and child well-being, the relationship between economic instability and health during early childhood is understudied. We examine the associations between the incidence, accumulation, and timing of intrayear employment and income instability with household and child food insecurity and child health using a nationally representative sample of hous…
Who Participates and Who Benefits From Employer-Provided Child-Care Assistance
Support from employers to help parents balance work and family responsibilities has become an increasingly important issue, particularly in the United States, where public support for families is scarce. Little is known about the effectiveness of employer-provided child-care support. Who participates in these programs, and what are their benefits? This study is among the first to address these questions using a dataset that combines administrativ…
Parents’ Depressive Symptoms and Gun, Fire, and Motor Vehicle Safety Practices
Family income, school attendance, and academic achievement in elementary school
Low family income is associated with poor academic achievement among children. Higher rates of school absence and tardiness may be one mechanism through which low family income impacts children's academic success. This study examines relations between family income, as measured by receipt of free or reduced-price lunch, school attendance, and academic achievement among a diverse sample of children from kindergarten to 4th grade (N = 35,419) using…
Familial Factors Associated With the Use of Multiple Child-Care Arrangements
This study examined the use of multiple, concurrent, nonparental child-care arrangements among children under 5 with employed mothers in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N= 759). Older children, those primarily cared for in informal child care, those living in cohabitating or single-parent households, and those whose mothers were employed for 40 or fewer hours per week were likely to be in multiple arrangements. Higher q…
Economic Instability, Food Insecurity, and Child Health in the Wake of the Great Recession
Although there is a wealth of research on the relationship between income level and employment status and child well-being, the relationship between economic instability and health during early childhood is understudied. We examine the associations between the incidence, accumulation, and timing of intrayear employment and income instability with household and child food insecurity and child health using a nationally representative sample of hous…
Sequence of child care type and child development
Food insecurity across the first five years
Trajectories of growth in body mass index across childhood
Who Participates and Who Benefits From Employer-Provided Child-Care Assistance
Support from employers to help parents balance work and family responsibilities has become an increasingly important issue, particularly in the United States, where public support for families is scarce. Little is known about the effectiveness of employer-provided child-care support. Who participates in these programs, and what are their benefits? This study is among the first to address these questions using a dataset that combines administrativ…
Neighborhood poverty and children's food insecurity
Household economic instability
Neighborhood disadvantage and children’s cognitive skill trajectories
Center-based early care and education and children’s school readiness
Neighborhoods provide resources that may affect children's achievement or moderate the influences of other developmental contexts, such as early care and education (ECE). Using a sample (N ≈ 12,430) from the 2010-2011 Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort, merged with census tract-level poverty data from the 2008-2012 American Community Survey, this article examines associations between center-based ECE participation, neighborhoo…
Neighborhood Poverty and Children's Academic Skills and Behavior in Early Elementary School
Neighborhoods provide resources that may affect children's cognitive and behavioral outcomes. However, it is unclear to what degree associations between neighborhood disadvantage and outcomes persist into elementary school and whether neighborhood disadvantage interacts with household disadvantage. Using data from the 2010-2011 Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (N = 15,100 children) merged with census data from the American C…
Employer-Supported Child Care
Child-care vouchers are becoming more common and can provide child-care assistance to a wide spectrum of the population. There is little empirical research, however, on which workers participate in their employer's child-care programs. In this exploratory study, employees with children at 1 large university completed questionnaires to gather information on their child-care arrangements and their experience with the employer's child-care voucher p…
Room to grow
An exploratory study of the impacts of an employer-supported child care program
The spatial inequality of early care and education centers
Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities
This study links county-level early care and education (ECE) program, economic, and demographic data to child-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 2010-2011 to examine geographic variation in ECE program participation and provision. We find that public ECE programs, particularly Head Start, occupy a larger role in nonmetropolitan communities than in metropolitan areas. By contrast, children in rural counti…
Why Early Care and Education Deserves as Much Attention, or More, than Prekindergarten Alone
High-quality early care and education (ECE) programs promote positive child outcomes, allow parents to work, and contribute to the local economy. Although extant research takes into account the ECE sector in its entirety, recent economic and policy interest has centered on part-day prekindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds only. Using an ecological framework, we review and synthesize the research literature to examine whether the emphasis on pre-k i…
Familial Factors Associated With the Use of Multiple Child-Care Arrangements
This study examined the use of multiple, concurrent, nonparental child-care arrangements among children under 5 with employed mothers in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N= 759). Older children, those primarily cared for in informal child care, those living in cohabitating or single-parent households, and those whose mothers were employed for 40 or fewer hours per week were likely to be in multiple arrangements. Higher q…
Multiple Child-Care Arrangements and Young Children’s Behavioral Outcomes
Nationally, 15% of children younger than 5 years regularly attend more than 1 child-care arrangement. An association between arrangement multiplicity and children’s behavior problems has been identified, but previous research may be susceptible to measurement or omitted variable bias. This study used within-child fixed effects models to examine associations between changes in the number of concurrent, nonparental child-care arrangements and chang…
Sequence of child care type and child development
Employer-Supported Child Care
Child-care vouchers are becoming more common and can provide child-care assistance to a wide spectrum of the population. There is little empirical research, however, on which workers participate in their employer's child-care programs. In this exploratory study, employees with children at 1 large university completed questionnaires to gather information on their child-care arrangements and their experience with the employer's child-care voucher p…
An exploratory study of the impacts of an employer-supported child care program
Multiple Child Care Arrangements and Common Communicable Illnesses in Children Aged 3 to 54 Months
Trajectories of growth in body mass index across childhood
Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Weight-Related Parenting Behaviors
A longitudinal analysis of maternal depressive symptoms and children's food consumption and weight outcomes
Objective Maternal depressive symptoms negatively impact mothers’ parenting practices and children's development, but the evidence linking these symptoms to children's obesity is mixed. Design We use a large sample to examine contemporaneous and lagged associations between maternal depressive symptoms and children's BMI, obesity and food consumption, controlling for background characteristics. Setting Data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal St…
Family income, school attendance, and academic achievement in elementary school
Low family income is associated with poor academic achievement among children. Higher rates of school absence and tardiness may be one mechanism through which low family income impacts children's academic success. This study examines relations between family income, as measured by receipt of free or reduced-price lunch, school attendance, and academic achievement among a diverse sample of children from kindergarten to 4th grade (N = 35,419) using…
Food insecurity across the first five years
Parents’ Depressive Symptoms and Gun, Fire, and Motor Vehicle Safety Practices
Neighborhood poverty and children's food insecurity
Child care and parent labor force participation
Economic Instability, Food Insecurity, and Child Health in the Wake of the Great Recession
Although there is a wealth of research on the relationship between income level and employment status and child well-being, the relationship between economic instability and health during early childhood is understudied. We examine the associations between the incidence, accumulation, and timing of intrayear employment and income instability with household and child food insecurity and child health using a nationally representative sample of hous…
Who Participates and Who Benefits From Employer-Provided Child-Care Assistance
Support from employers to help parents balance work and family responsibilities has become an increasingly important issue, particularly in the United States, where public support for families is scarce. Little is known about the effectiveness of employer-provided child-care support. Who participates in these programs, and what are their benefits? This study is among the first to address these questions using a dataset that combines administrativ…
Center-based early care and education and children’s school readiness
Neighborhoods provide resources that may affect children's achievement or moderate the influences of other developmental contexts, such as early care and education (ECE). Using a sample (N ≈ 12,430) from the 2010-2011 Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort, merged with census tract-level poverty data from the 2008-2012 American Community Survey, this article examines associations between center-based ECE participation, neighborhoo…
Neighborhood Poverty and Children's Academic Skills and Behavior in Early Elementary School
Neighborhoods provide resources that may affect children's cognitive and behavioral outcomes. However, it is unclear to what degree associations between neighborhood disadvantage and outcomes persist into elementary school and whether neighborhood disadvantage interacts with household disadvantage. Using data from the 2010-2011 Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (N = 15,100 children) merged with census data from the American C…
Food Insecurity and Child Health
OBJECTIVES: Food insecurity is an important public health problem facing children in the United States. Although a number of previous studies suggest that food insecurity has negative impacts on health, these studies have not dealt thoroughly with issues of selection bias. We use propensity scoring techniques to approximate the causal effects of food insecurity on children's health and health care use outcomes. METHODS: = 29 341). Using inverse p…
Hay que seguir en la lucha ”
Latinx immigrants have poorer access to health care, compared to non-Latinx Whites. Federally-Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) provide clinical and community programing to address their clients' health needs. One mechanism by which FQHC's may strengthen Latinx immigrant well-being is by promoting their individual and community resilience. We partnered with La Clínica del Pueblo (La Clínica) , an FQHC serving Latinx immigrants in Washington, DC an…
Household economic instability
Neighborhood disadvantage and children’s cognitive skill trajectories
SNAP participation and the health and health care utilisation of low-income adults and children
Objective: This article examined whether participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) produced changes to adult and child health and health care utilisation during a period of economic recession. Design: Instrumental variables analysis relying on variation in state SNAP policies to isolate exogenous variation in household SNAP participation. Setting: Nationally representative data on child and adult health from the 2008 t…
Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities
This study links county-level early care and education (ECE) program, economic, and demographic data to child-level data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 2010-2011 to examine geographic variation in ECE program participation and provision. We find that public ECE programs, particularly Head Start, occupy a larger role in nonmetropolitan communities than in metropolitan areas. By contrast, children in rural counti…
Medicine (31 obras) · Psychology (23 obras) · Early Childhood Education and Development (17 obras) · Economics (16 obras) · Developmental psychology (15 obras) · Nursing (14 obras) · Child care (12 obras) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Demographic economics (11 obras)