Matthew O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 181223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6585-0677 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Anthropogenic burning of small mammals at the Early Paleoindian La Prele Site in Converse County, Wyoming
Identifying and Investigating Deeply Buried Activity Areas at the La Prele Site
Before 2023, excavations at the La Prele site identified three hearth-centered areas associated with mammoth remains. In 2022 and 2023, more than 150 augers across the site suggested the presence of a bone bed and a fourth activity area with the potential for dense archaeological deposits. Here we report preliminary results comparing the expected versus actual artifact densities to evaluate the use of auger surveys for identifying artifact cluste…
What Are Characteristics of Tangible Hope? A Guaranteed Income and Asset Experiment in Saint Paul, MN/A Children’s Savings Account Program
The City of Saint Paul’s CollegeBound Boost (Boost for short) program is the first to test combining Children’s Savings Accounts (CSAs) with a monthly guaranteed income payment ($500 per month; income support) and targeted quarterly CSA deposits ($250 per quarter; asset support) to families living at 300% of the poverty line or below. The current study examines how Boost participants perceive fulfilling their current and future needs with income …
Prevalence of Tourette syndrome among children and adolescents in the United States, 2016–2022
Based on nationally representative data, this study found that the national prevalence of TS among the US children and adolescents differed by sex and race/ethnicity but remained stable from 2016 to 2022
Children’s Savings Accounts and Rural Children’s College Expectations: The Case of Kickstart Newaygo County
Young children’s educational expectations for themselves, conceptualized as a college-bound identity (CBI), is theorized as an important and, fortunately, malleable self-concept predictive of educational attainment. Children’s Savings Accounts (CSAs) are emerging as an important intervention for shaping these expectations but have remained understudied among rural populations. This study utilizes survey data from a measure of CBI collected from N…
“Freedom to Think What Could Be Best for Our Family”: A Guaranteed Income Experiment in CollegeBound St. Paul/A Children’s Savings Account Program
The City of Saint Paul’s CollegeBound Boost (Boost for short) program is the first to test combining Children’s Savings Accounts (CSAs) with a monthly guaranteed income payment ($500 per month) and targeted quarterly CSA deposits ($250 per quarter) to families living at 300% of the poverty line or below. The goal of this study is to understand policy implications of focusing on meeting basic needs today versus security and growth needs for tomorr…
The Role of Children’s Savings Accounts in Promoting Savings for College Among Welfare Recipients: The Case of Harold Alfond College Challenge (Hacc)
Using Children’s Savings Accounts and Early Awards to Build College Savings among Welfare Recipients: The Case of Promise Scholars
Prior research indicates that welfare receipt negatively affects households’ planning and saving for offspring’s post-secondary education. Recently, a growing body of literature suggests that Children’s Savings Accounts (CSAs) are effective in increasing the saving rate of American households. Findings of this study suggests that welfare receipt is negatively associated with saving for college; Promise Scholars is positively associated with savin…
A step toward measuring children’s college-bound identity in children’s savings accounts programs: The case of promise scholars
An Examination of Parental College Expectations’ Mediating Role between Children’s Savings Accounts and Children’s Educational Attainment by Income Level
Even though ownership of a Children’s Savings Account (CSA), children’s academic achievement, and parental college expectations are potentially key components for closing the inequality gap in education, the interdependence of these elements is not yet fully understood. Guided by the Theory of Planned Behavior, we utilize structural equation modeling (SEM) in this cross-sectional study to examine the mediating role of parental college expectation…
Combining children's savings account programs with scholarship programs: Effects on math and reading scores
Occupancy and the Use of Household Space Among the Dukha
Archaeologists commonly encounter the occupation surfaces of ephemeral prehistoric houses. Within those spaces, artifacts can exhibit considerable spatial structure raising the question of what that structure can tell us about human behavior. We explore a simple site-formation model in which household occupancy, defined here as the average number of individuals who simultaneously occupy a house, positively predicts artifact dispersion. We confron…
Initial elementary education findings from Promise Indiana's Children's savings account program
Saving and Educational Asset Building Within a Community-Driven CSA Program: The Case of Promise Indiana
Children's savings accounts (CSAs) provide early asset-building opportunities to reduce disparities in children's outcomes, particularly regarding postsecondary education and financial well-being. Promise Indiana (PI) is a state-supported and community-driven CSA program for children in kindergarten through third grade. This study used a mixed methods approach to better understand savings behaviors and perceptions among PI participants. Administr…
Examining the relationship between parental educational expectations and a community-based children's savings account program
Attitudes and Experience of Youth and Their Parents with Psychiatric Medication and Relationship to Self-Reported Adherence
Developing a Framework to Support Shared Decision Making for Youth Mental Health Medication Treatment
Competing through service: Insights from service-dominant logic
Peer and sibling substance use: Predictors of substance use among adolescents in Mexico
Consistent with extant findings among youth in the United States of America, peer and sibling substance use are major risk factors for substance use among school-based youth in Mexico. Students in Mexico may benefit from prevention strategies found to be effective among students in the United States
Further development of an Australian-based measure of social capital in a US sample
Indomethacin
Further development of an Australian-based measure of social capital in a US sample
Developing a Framework to Support Shared Decision Making for Youth Mental Health Medication Treatment
Attitudes and Experience of Youth and Their Parents with Psychiatric Medication and Relationship to Self-Reported Adherence
Initial elementary education findings from Promise Indiana's Children's savings account program
Examining the relationship between parental educational expectations and a community-based children's savings account program
Saving and Educational Asset Building Within a Community-Driven CSA Program: The Case of Promise Indiana
Children's savings accounts (CSAs) provide early asset-building opportunities to reduce disparities in children's outcomes, particularly regarding postsecondary education and financial well-being. Promise Indiana (PI) is a state-supported and community-driven CSA program for children in kindergarten through third grade. This study used a mixed methods approach to better understand savings behaviors and perceptions among PI participants. Administr…
Indomethacin
Peer and sibling substance use: Predictors of substance use among adolescents in Mexico
Consistent with extant findings among youth in the United States of America, peer and sibling substance use are major risk factors for substance use among school-based youth in Mexico. Students in Mexico may benefit from prevention strategies found to be effective among students in the United States
Further development of an Australian-based measure of social capital in a US sample
Competing through service: Insights from service-dominant logic
Developing a Framework to Support Shared Decision Making for Youth Mental Health Medication Treatment
Attitudes and Experience of Youth and Their Parents with Psychiatric Medication and Relationship to Self-Reported Adherence
Saving and Educational Asset Building Within a Community-Driven CSA Program: The Case of Promise Indiana
Children's savings accounts (CSAs) provide early asset-building opportunities to reduce disparities in children's outcomes, particularly regarding postsecondary education and financial well-being. Promise Indiana (PI) is a state-supported and community-driven CSA program for children in kindergarten through third grade. This study used a mixed methods approach to better understand savings behaviors and perceptions among PI participants. Administr…
Examining the relationship between parental educational expectations and a community-based children's savings account program
Occupancy and the Use of Household Space Among the Dukha
Archaeologists commonly encounter the occupation surfaces of ephemeral prehistoric houses. Within those spaces, artifacts can exhibit considerable spatial structure raising the question of what that structure can tell us about human behavior. We explore a simple site-formation model in which household occupancy, defined here as the average number of individuals who simultaneously occupy a house, positively predicts artifact dispersion. We confron…
Initial elementary education findings from Promise Indiana's Children's savings account program
Combining children's savings account programs with scholarship programs: Effects on math and reading scores
An Examination of Parental College Expectations’ Mediating Role between Children’s Savings Accounts and Children’s Educational Attainment by Income Level
Even though ownership of a Children’s Savings Account (CSA), children’s academic achievement, and parental college expectations are potentially key components for closing the inequality gap in education, the interdependence of these elements is not yet fully understood. Guided by the Theory of Planned Behavior, we utilize structural equation modeling (SEM) in this cross-sectional study to examine the mediating role of parental college expectation…
Using Children’s Savings Accounts and Early Awards to Build College Savings among Welfare Recipients: The Case of Promise Scholars
Prior research indicates that welfare receipt negatively affects households’ planning and saving for offspring’s post-secondary education. Recently, a growing body of literature suggests that Children’s Savings Accounts (CSAs) are effective in increasing the saving rate of American households. Findings of this study suggests that welfare receipt is negatively associated with saving for college; Promise Scholars is positively associated with savin…
A step toward measuring children’s college-bound identity in children’s savings accounts programs: The case of promise scholars
Children’s Savings Accounts and Rural Children’s College Expectations: The Case of Kickstart Newaygo County
Young children’s educational expectations for themselves, conceptualized as a college-bound identity (CBI), is theorized as an important and, fortunately, malleable self-concept predictive of educational attainment. Children’s Savings Accounts (CSAs) are emerging as an important intervention for shaping these expectations but have remained understudied among rural populations. This study utilizes survey data from a measure of CBI collected from N…
“Freedom to Think What Could Be Best for Our Family”: A Guaranteed Income Experiment in CollegeBound St. Paul/A Children’s Savings Account Program
The City of Saint Paul’s CollegeBound Boost (Boost for short) program is the first to test combining Children’s Savings Accounts (CSAs) with a monthly guaranteed income payment ($500 per month) and targeted quarterly CSA deposits ($250 per quarter) to families living at 300% of the poverty line or below. The goal of this study is to understand policy implications of focusing on meeting basic needs today versus security and growth needs for tomorr…
The Role of Children’s Savings Accounts in Promoting Savings for College Among Welfare Recipients: The Case of Harold Alfond College Challenge (Hacc)
What Are Characteristics of Tangible Hope? A Guaranteed Income and Asset Experiment in Saint Paul, MN/A Children’s Savings Account Program
The City of Saint Paul’s CollegeBound Boost (Boost for short) program is the first to test combining Children’s Savings Accounts (CSAs) with a monthly guaranteed income payment ($500 per month; income support) and targeted quarterly CSA deposits ($250 per quarter; asset support) to families living at 300% of the poverty line or below. The current study examines how Boost participants perceive fulfilling their current and future needs with income …
Prevalence of Tourette syndrome among children and adolescents in the United States, 2016–2022
Based on nationally representative data, this study found that the national prevalence of TS among the US children and adolescents differed by sex and race/ethnicity but remained stable from 2016 to 2022
Identifying and Investigating Deeply Buried Activity Areas at the La Prele Site
Before 2023, excavations at the La Prele site identified three hearth-centered areas associated with mammoth remains. In 2022 and 2023, more than 150 augers across the site suggested the presence of a bone bed and a fourth activity area with the potential for dense archaeological deposits. Here we report preliminary results comparing the expected versus actual artifact densities to evaluate the use of auger surveys for identifying artifact cluste…
Anthropogenic burning of small mammals at the Early Paleoindian La Prele Site in Converse County, Wyoming
Psychology (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (9 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · School Choice and Performance (5 works)