Steven Garasky
Biographic Data
| ID | 148646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Garasky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Garasky |
| SIGNATURE | GARASKY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Family Structure and Child Food Insecurity
Objectives. We examined whether food insecurity was different for children in cohabiting or repartnered families versus those in single-mother or married-parent (biological) families. Methods. We compared probabilities of child food insecurity (CFI) across different family structures in 4 national data sets: the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), the Early Childhood Lo…
Nonresident Fathers and Child Food Insecurity
More than 1 in 10 children in the United States experience food insecurity, and children in single-mother families are at greatest risk. We examine the associations of nonresident father involvement and child food insecurity using two nationally representative panel data sets of children in early and middle childhood. Nonresident father involvement, based on a comprehensive index, is associated with lower food insecurity in both early and middle …
Differences in food insecurity between adults and children in Zimbabwe
Transportation Access
Findings from three sequential studies build an understanding of the transportation barriers facing poor rural families and the link between transportation access and economic outcomes. An in-depth, longitudinal qualitative study explored multiple dimensions of the role of transportation in family life. The results of this study yielded emergent themes and hypotheses used in the subsequent studies. The second study used multiple methods to analyz…
Toward a Fuller Understanding of Nonresident Father Involvement
Food Insecurity and Out‐of‐Pocket Medical Expenditures
Resource‐constrained families face difficult choices when attempting to meet their basic needs and enhance their health and wellness. This research investigated the relationship between a family’s efforts to access enough food and pay their medical bills through an examination of data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The data provided information on out‐of‐pocket medical expenditures and responses to an abbreviated version of …
Exploring Relationships Between Transnationalism and Housing and Health Risks of Rural Latino Immigrant Families
Interviews with 78 rural low‐income Latino immigrant mothers in three states (CA, OR, and IA) explored relationships between transnationalism and health and housing risks. Transnational activity based on language spoken at home, nature, and frequency of contact with family and friends in, and the extent and frequency of travel to the country of origin, was conceptualized as a continuum from high to low. Low transnational families lived in the Uni…
Family stressors and child obesity
Health Insurance Stability and Health Status
Being uninsured affects one's ability to access medical services and maintain health. Using longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, the authors investigated how individual and family insurance coverage affects adult health. They found that health insurance coverage often varies across family members and changes frequently. Employing multivariate analyses that control for personal insurance status, predisposing chara…
Where are they going? A comparison of urban and rural youths' locational choices after leaving the parental home
Group living decisions as youths transition to adulthood
Examining cross-state variation in the increase in father-only families
Tiebout Revisited
User Fees and Family Policy
This study looks in depth at three family policy issues surrounding one state's attempt to recover costs for child support enforcement services provided to nonpublic assistance families. The issues are whether a cost recovery user fee should be assessed; to whom the fee should be assessed; and how to develop a fee structure to meet criteria established by the policy agents. The original study was mandated by the state legislature. Recommendations…
Reconsidering the increase in father-only families
Previously reported estimates of rapid growth rates among father-only families did not account for cohabitation. An explicit treatment of cohabitation removes about half of the presumed growth. Nevertheless, we find that the number of father-only families grew at more than double the rate of mother-only families during the 1980s. Decomposition analyses show that the largest factor associated with the increase is that fathers now head a greater pr…
The Effects of Family Structure on Educational Attainment
The attainment of a high school education is essential to the reduction of the probability of poverty and long term dependence on welfare. How six distinct family structures over four separate periods of childhood are related to the likelihood of graduating from high school are studied. The impact of family structure is found to vary by both the type of structure experienced and the age of the child when the experience occurred. The effect of a c…
Custodial Fathers
Men are increasingly receiving custody of their children, and single-father families with children are growing at a faster rate than even single-mother families.However, many observers still believe that custodial fathers are small in number.Indeed, there are a number of myths concerning custodial fathers, myths that are dispelled by empirical data.The authors examine data from the Current Population Survey, the Survey of Income and Program Parti…
Demonstration Evaluations and Cost Neutrality
Steven Garasky, Burt S. Barnow, Demonstration Evaluations and Cost Neutrality: Using Caseload Models to Determine the Federal Cost Neutrality of New Jersey's REACH Demonstration, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 624-636
Custodial Fathers
Men are increasingly receiving custody of their children, and single-father families with children are growing at a faster rate than even single-mother families.However, many observers still believe that custodial fathers are small in number.Indeed, there are a number of myths concerning custodial fathers, myths that are dispelled by empirical data.The authors examine data from the Current Population Survey, the Survey of Income and Program Parti…
Toward a Fuller Understanding of Nonresident Father Involvement
Reconsidering the increase in father-only families
Previously reported estimates of rapid growth rates among father-only families did not account for cohabitation. An explicit treatment of cohabitation removes about half of the presumed growth. Nevertheless, we find that the number of father-only families grew at more than double the rate of mother-only families during the 1980s. Decomposition analyses show that the largest factor associated with the increase is that fathers now head a greater pr…
Where are they going? A comparison of urban and rural youths' locational choices after leaving the parental home
Nonresident Fathers and Child Food Insecurity
More than 1 in 10 children in the United States experience food insecurity, and children in single-mother families are at greatest risk. We examine the associations of nonresident father involvement and child food insecurity using two nationally representative panel data sets of children in early and middle childhood. Nonresident father involvement, based on a comprehensive index, is associated with lower food insecurity in both early and middle …
Family stressors and child obesity
The Effects of Family Structure on Educational Attainment
The attainment of a high school education is essential to the reduction of the probability of poverty and long term dependence on welfare. How six distinct family structures over four separate periods of childhood are related to the likelihood of graduating from high school are studied. The impact of family structure is found to vary by both the type of structure experienced and the age of the child when the experience occurred. The effect of a c…
Group living decisions as youths transition to adulthood
Food Insecurity and Out‐of‐Pocket Medical Expenditures
Resource‐constrained families face difficult choices when attempting to meet their basic needs and enhance their health and wellness. This research investigated the relationship between a family’s efforts to access enough food and pay their medical bills through an examination of data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The data provided information on out‐of‐pocket medical expenditures and responses to an abbreviated version of …
Transportation Access
Findings from three sequential studies build an understanding of the transportation barriers facing poor rural families and the link between transportation access and economic outcomes. An in-depth, longitudinal qualitative study explored multiple dimensions of the role of transportation in family life. The results of this study yielded emergent themes and hypotheses used in the subsequent studies. The second study used multiple methods to analyz…
Family Structure and Child Food Insecurity
Objectives. We examined whether food insecurity was different for children in cohabiting or repartnered families versus those in single-mother or married-parent (biological) families. Methods. We compared probabilities of child food insecurity (CFI) across different family structures in 4 national data sets: the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), the Early Childhood Lo…
Differences in food insecurity between adults and children in Zimbabwe
Health Insurance Stability and Health Status
Being uninsured affects one's ability to access medical services and maintain health. Using longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, the authors investigated how individual and family insurance coverage affects adult health. They found that health insurance coverage often varies across family members and changes frequently. Employing multivariate analyses that control for personal insurance status, predisposing chara…
Tiebout Revisited
Exploring Relationships Between Transnationalism and Housing and Health Risks of Rural Latino Immigrant Families
Interviews with 78 rural low‐income Latino immigrant mothers in three states (CA, OR, and IA) explored relationships between transnationalism and health and housing risks. Transnational activity based on language spoken at home, nature, and frequency of contact with family and friends in, and the extent and frequency of travel to the country of origin, was conceptualized as a continuum from high to low. Low transnational families lived in the Uni…
Demonstration Evaluations and Cost Neutrality
Steven Garasky, Burt S. Barnow, Demonstration Evaluations and Cost Neutrality: Using Caseload Models to Determine the Federal Cost Neutrality of New Jersey's REACH Demonstration, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 624-636
Custodial Fathers
Men are increasingly receiving custody of their children, and single-father families with children are growing at a faster rate than even single-mother families.However, many observers still believe that custodial fathers are small in number.Indeed, there are a number of myths concerning custodial fathers, myths that are dispelled by empirical data.The authors examine data from the Current Population Survey, the Survey of Income and Program Parti…
The Effects of Family Structure on Educational Attainment
The attainment of a high school education is essential to the reduction of the probability of poverty and long term dependence on welfare. How six distinct family structures over four separate periods of childhood are related to the likelihood of graduating from high school are studied. The impact of family structure is found to vary by both the type of structure experienced and the age of the child when the experience occurred. The effect of a c…
Reconsidering the increase in father-only families
Previously reported estimates of rapid growth rates among father-only families did not account for cohabitation. An explicit treatment of cohabitation removes about half of the presumed growth. Nevertheless, we find that the number of father-only families grew at more than double the rate of mother-only families during the 1980s. Decomposition analyses show that the largest factor associated with the increase is that fathers now head a greater pr…
Tiebout Revisited
User Fees and Family Policy
This study looks in depth at three family policy issues surrounding one state's attempt to recover costs for child support enforcement services provided to nonpublic assistance families. The issues are whether a cost recovery user fee should be assessed; to whom the fee should be assessed; and how to develop a fee structure to meet criteria established by the policy agents. The original study was mandated by the state legislature. Recommendations…
Examining cross-state variation in the increase in father-only families
Group living decisions as youths transition to adulthood
Where are they going? A comparison of urban and rural youths' locational choices after leaving the parental home
Health Insurance Stability and Health Status
Being uninsured affects one's ability to access medical services and maintain health. Using longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, the authors investigated how individual and family insurance coverage affects adult health. They found that health insurance coverage often varies across family members and changes frequently. Employing multivariate analyses that control for personal insurance status, predisposing chara…
Exploring Relationships Between Transnationalism and Housing and Health Risks of Rural Latino Immigrant Families
Interviews with 78 rural low‐income Latino immigrant mothers in three states (CA, OR, and IA) explored relationships between transnationalism and health and housing risks. Transnational activity based on language spoken at home, nature, and frequency of contact with family and friends in, and the extent and frequency of travel to the country of origin, was conceptualized as a continuum from high to low. Low transnational families lived in the Uni…
Family stressors and child obesity
Transportation Access
Findings from three sequential studies build an understanding of the transportation barriers facing poor rural families and the link between transportation access and economic outcomes. An in-depth, longitudinal qualitative study explored multiple dimensions of the role of transportation in family life. The results of this study yielded emergent themes and hypotheses used in the subsequent studies. The second study used multiple methods to analyz…
Toward a Fuller Understanding of Nonresident Father Involvement
Food Insecurity and Out‐of‐Pocket Medical Expenditures
Resource‐constrained families face difficult choices when attempting to meet their basic needs and enhance their health and wellness. This research investigated the relationship between a family’s efforts to access enough food and pay their medical bills through an examination of data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The data provided information on out‐of‐pocket medical expenditures and responses to an abbreviated version of …
Differences in food insecurity between adults and children in Zimbabwe
Family Structure and Child Food Insecurity
Objectives. We examined whether food insecurity was different for children in cohabiting or repartnered families versus those in single-mother or married-parent (biological) families. Methods. We compared probabilities of child food insecurity (CFI) across different family structures in 4 national data sets: the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), the Early Childhood Lo…
Nonresident Fathers and Child Food Insecurity
More than 1 in 10 children in the United States experience food insecurity, and children in single-mother families are at greatest risk. We examine the associations of nonresident father involvement and child food insecurity using two nationally representative panel data sets of children in early and middle childhood. Nonresident father involvement, based on a comprehensive index, is associated with lower food insecurity in both early and middle …
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