Peter D Brandon
Biographic Data
| ID | 254060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter D Brandon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter D |
| FAMILY NAME | Brandon |
| SIGNATURE | BRANDON P D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Determinants of Informal Social Help Among Women Enduring Marital Separation and Poverty
How architectural principles can help conceptualize and analyze breakups among intergenerational households
Guided by two architectural design principles, we investigated whether differences in the ways intergenerational households were structured could predict the odds of intergenerational households breaking apart. The two architectural design principles guiding our study were: (a) to classify structures, such as intergenerational households, according to a hierarchical ordering, in our case, a generational hierarchy, first, second, third, and so for…
Explaining SNAP Nonparticipation among Food-Insecure Poor and Near-Poor Households with Dependent Children
Why households eligible for SNAP do not participate has perplexed scholars. Explanations exist, but few explore whether SNAP nonparticipation coincides with private food assistance. Applying an innovative empirical strategy to SIPP data, we investigate the link between SNAP nonparticipation and private food assistance among vulnerable households with children. We find that SNAP nonparticipation is greater when households are also less likely to r…
Piketty and the Political Origins of Inequality
We examine Thomas Piketty's explanations for steady and rising inequality in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the decline of inequality in the half-century after World War I, and the return of high levels of inequality since the 1970s. We specify empirical and conceptual problems with his analysis, which stem from his presentation of causality at a highly general and vague level. That leads him to confuse rather than clarify the caus…
Time for Work and Work Timing Among Married Couples Raising Children with Disabilities
Using Australian time-diary data, this study examines the effects of child disability on couples' work patterns. Findings show that while mothers' labor force participation, work hours, and exact scheduling of hours of paid employment over a twenty-four-hour day were associated with raising children with disabilities, these areas of fathers' paid work lives were unaffected. Results for control variables confirmed previous findings in the literatu…
Utilizing relationship matrices to better understand the diversity of household arrangements among romantic couples: A cross-country example
New approaches to household diversity and change
The Health Risk Behaviours and Social Connectedness of Adolescents in Immigrant Families: Evidence from Australia
Using data from Australia, health behavior outcomes and the social connectedness of adolescents in immigrant families are contrasted with the outcomes of adolescents in non‐immigrant families. Findings suggest that first and second generation adolescents are less likely to drink alcohol and lack social support than third generation adolescents, but more likely not to be physically active and not to have membership to a social club or group than t…
Do disabilities in former Tanf families hasten their returns to cash assistance
Family Provisions at the Workplace and Their Relationship to Absenteeism, Retention, and Productivity of Workers: Timely Evidence from Prior Data
Using data from the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, this study provides timely evidence on the effects of on‐site child care at the workplace and employer‐provided family leave on worker absenteeism, turnover, and productivity. The study found that workplaces with on‐site child care compared with workplaces with no on‐site child care had lower rates of absenteeism and higher ratings for worker productivity. Workplaces that had a…
"Time away from "smelling the roses: Where do mothers raising children with disabilities find the time to work
Welfare Receipt Among Children Living with Grandparents
Impediments to Mothers Leaving Welfare: The Role of Maternal and Child Disability
The Child Care Arrangements of Preschool‐Age Children in Immigrant Families in the United States
This study examined the child care arrangements of children in immigrant families. Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), the study found great diversity in the child care arrangements of children according to their nativity status. Children in immigrant families, especially those in low‐income immigrant families, were found less likely to use centre‐based child care. Mexican, Asian, and other Hispanic children are…
Identifying the diversity in Australian children's living arrangements: A research note
The dramatic changes in family composition have profound implications for studying relationships of children to other adults in a household. However, methods for studying such relationships have been outpaced by the transformation of families and thus today's studies, for example, often inaccurately assess whether a child lives with one or two parents and whether he or she is the biological child of those parents. Despite needing increased detail…
Determinants of out-of-school childcare arrangements among children in single-mother and two-parent families
The Dissolution of Joint Living Arrangements among Single Parents and Children: Does Welfare Make a Difference
Objective . This research examines the claim that states' newfound autonomy to devise their own welfare systems will lead to more intergenerational family dissolution. Critics of welfare reform argue that children residing in states with lower welfare benefits will be more at risk of living apart from parents, as some parents will lack sufficient income to raise children. Methods . Data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation were ana…
Welfare and Family Dissolution Revisited
Children's Living Arrangements, Coresidence of Unmarried Fathers, and Welfare Receipt
This study analyzed welfare receipt among children across alternative living arrangements. Findings suggest more variation in patterns of public assistance receipt than previously reported, and that these variations are affected by the presence of cohabiting fathers. Results argue for more precise indicators of children's living arrangements so that levels of welfare receipt among children are comparable. Indicators should categorize children acc…
Did the AFDC Program Succeed in Keeping Mothers and Young Children Living Together
Critics of welfare reform claim that children will leave their mother's care in states that restrict benefits because mothers will lack sufficient income to raise children. This article investigates these claims and the relationship between the generosity of welfare benefits and children's living arrangements. I found that mother‐child separations were lower in states with higher welfare benefits, suggesting that higher welfare benefits lower the…
An Analysis of Kin-Provided Child Care in the Context of Intrafamily Exchanges: Linking Components of Family Support for Parents Raising Young Children
Little is known about why parents choose kin-provided child care and less is known about how kin-provided child care is related to other forms of in-kind support from relatives close-at-hand. Previous models of the choice of kin-provided child care assumed that the presence of other forms of in-kind support from relatives nearby was inconsequential to estimating effects of economic and demographic factors on the decision to use kin-provided child…
Public Assistance Receipt across Immigrant Generations
Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy
Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy
Income-Pooling Arrangements, Economic Constraints, and Married Mothers' Child Care Choices
This study investigates whether financial agreements between husbands and wives, the cost of child care, mothers' wages, and sources of income, rather than just aggregate income, affect a mother's decision to use child care. This study finds that for working mothers, the price of child care is what matters, not their wages; for nonemployed mothers, the reverse is true. However, similar patterns for income effects are found for all mothers. Husban…
The Child Care Arrangements of Preschool‐Age Children in Immigrant Families in the United States
This study examined the child care arrangements of children in immigrant families. Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), the study found great diversity in the child care arrangements of children according to their nativity status. Children in immigrant families, especially those in low‐income immigrant families, were found less likely to use centre‐based child care. Mexican, Asian, and other Hispanic children are…
"Time away from "smelling the roses: Where do mothers raising children with disabilities find the time to work
Income-Pooling Arrangements, Economic Constraints, and Married Mothers' Child Care Choices
This study investigates whether financial agreements between husbands and wives, the cost of child care, mothers' wages, and sources of income, rather than just aggregate income, affect a mother's decision to use child care. This study finds that for working mothers, the price of child care is what matters, not their wages; for nonemployed mothers, the reverse is true. However, similar patterns for income effects are found for all mothers. Husban…
Determinants of out-of-school childcare arrangements among children in single-mother and two-parent families
An Analysis of Kin-Provided Child Care in the Context of Intrafamily Exchanges: Linking Components of Family Support for Parents Raising Young Children
Little is known about why parents choose kin-provided child care and less is known about how kin-provided child care is related to other forms of in-kind support from relatives close-at-hand. Previous models of the choice of kin-provided child care assumed that the presence of other forms of in-kind support from relatives nearby was inconsequential to estimating effects of economic and demographic factors on the decision to use kin-provided child…
Children's Living Arrangements, Coresidence of Unmarried Fathers, and Welfare Receipt
This study analyzed welfare receipt among children across alternative living arrangements. Findings suggest more variation in patterns of public assistance receipt than previously reported, and that these variations are affected by the presence of cohabiting fathers. Results argue for more precise indicators of children's living arrangements so that levels of welfare receipt among children are comparable. Indicators should categorize children acc…
Did the AFDC Program Succeed in Keeping Mothers and Young Children Living Together
Critics of welfare reform claim that children will leave their mother's care in states that restrict benefits because mothers will lack sufficient income to raise children. This article investigates these claims and the relationship between the generosity of welfare benefits and children's living arrangements. I found that mother‐child separations were lower in states with higher welfare benefits, suggesting that higher welfare benefits lower the…
The Health Risk Behaviours and Social Connectedness of Adolescents in Immigrant Families: Evidence from Australia
Using data from Australia, health behavior outcomes and the social connectedness of adolescents in immigrant families are contrasted with the outcomes of adolescents in non‐immigrant families. Findings suggest that first and second generation adolescents are less likely to drink alcohol and lack social support than third generation adolescents, but more likely not to be physically active and not to have membership to a social club or group than t…
Welfare Receipt Among Children Living with Grandparents
Impediments to Mothers Leaving Welfare: The Role of Maternal and Child Disability
Identifying the diversity in Australian children's living arrangements: A research note
The dramatic changes in family composition have profound implications for studying relationships of children to other adults in a household. However, methods for studying such relationships have been outpaced by the transformation of families and thus today's studies, for example, often inaccurately assess whether a child lives with one or two parents and whether he or she is the biological child of those parents. Despite needing increased detail…
The Dissolution of Joint Living Arrangements among Single Parents and Children: Does Welfare Make a Difference
Objective . This research examines the claim that states' newfound autonomy to devise their own welfare systems will lead to more intergenerational family dissolution. Critics of welfare reform argue that children residing in states with lower welfare benefits will be more at risk of living apart from parents, as some parents will lack sufficient income to raise children. Methods . Data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation were ana…
Do disabilities in former Tanf families hasten their returns to cash assistance
Piketty and the Political Origins of Inequality
We examine Thomas Piketty's explanations for steady and rising inequality in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the decline of inequality in the half-century after World War I, and the return of high levels of inequality since the 1970s. We specify empirical and conceptual problems with his analysis, which stem from his presentation of causality at a highly general and vague level. That leads him to confuse rather than clarify the caus…
New approaches to household diversity and change
Public Assistance Receipt across Immigrant Generations
Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy
Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy
Income-Pooling Arrangements, Economic Constraints, and Married Mothers' Child Care Choices
This study investigates whether financial agreements between husbands and wives, the cost of child care, mothers' wages, and sources of income, rather than just aggregate income, affect a mother's decision to use child care. This study finds that for working mothers, the price of child care is what matters, not their wages; for nonemployed mothers, the reverse is true. However, similar patterns for income effects are found for all mothers. Husban…
Did the AFDC Program Succeed in Keeping Mothers and Young Children Living Together
Critics of welfare reform claim that children will leave their mother's care in states that restrict benefits because mothers will lack sufficient income to raise children. This article investigates these claims and the relationship between the generosity of welfare benefits and children's living arrangements. I found that mother‐child separations were lower in states with higher welfare benefits, suggesting that higher welfare benefits lower the…
An Analysis of Kin-Provided Child Care in the Context of Intrafamily Exchanges: Linking Components of Family Support for Parents Raising Young Children
Little is known about why parents choose kin-provided child care and less is known about how kin-provided child care is related to other forms of in-kind support from relatives close-at-hand. Previous models of the choice of kin-provided child care assumed that the presence of other forms of in-kind support from relatives nearby was inconsequential to estimating effects of economic and demographic factors on the decision to use kin-provided child…
Public Assistance Receipt across Immigrant Generations
The Dissolution of Joint Living Arrangements among Single Parents and Children: Does Welfare Make a Difference
Objective . This research examines the claim that states' newfound autonomy to devise their own welfare systems will lead to more intergenerational family dissolution. Critics of welfare reform argue that children residing in states with lower welfare benefits will be more at risk of living apart from parents, as some parents will lack sufficient income to raise children. Methods . Data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation were ana…
Welfare and Family Dissolution Revisited
Children's Living Arrangements, Coresidence of Unmarried Fathers, and Welfare Receipt
This study analyzed welfare receipt among children across alternative living arrangements. Findings suggest more variation in patterns of public assistance receipt than previously reported, and that these variations are affected by the presence of cohabiting fathers. Results argue for more precise indicators of children's living arrangements so that levels of welfare receipt among children are comparable. Indicators should categorize children acc…
Determinants of out-of-school childcare arrangements among children in single-mother and two-parent families
Impediments to Mothers Leaving Welfare: The Role of Maternal and Child Disability
The Child Care Arrangements of Preschool‐Age Children in Immigrant Families in the United States
This study examined the child care arrangements of children in immigrant families. Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), the study found great diversity in the child care arrangements of children according to their nativity status. Children in immigrant families, especially those in low‐income immigrant families, were found less likely to use centre‐based child care. Mexican, Asian, and other Hispanic children are…
Identifying the diversity in Australian children's living arrangements: A research note
The dramatic changes in family composition have profound implications for studying relationships of children to other adults in a household. However, methods for studying such relationships have been outpaced by the transformation of families and thus today's studies, for example, often inaccurately assess whether a child lives with one or two parents and whether he or she is the biological child of those parents. Despite needing increased detail…
Welfare Receipt Among Children Living with Grandparents
Family Provisions at the Workplace and Their Relationship to Absenteeism, Retention, and Productivity of Workers: Timely Evidence from Prior Data
Using data from the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, this study provides timely evidence on the effects of on‐site child care at the workplace and employer‐provided family leave on worker absenteeism, turnover, and productivity. The study found that workplaces with on‐site child care compared with workplaces with no on‐site child care had lower rates of absenteeism and higher ratings for worker productivity. Workplaces that had a…
"Time away from "smelling the roses: Where do mothers raising children with disabilities find the time to work
Utilizing relationship matrices to better understand the diversity of household arrangements among romantic couples: A cross-country example
New approaches to household diversity and change
The Health Risk Behaviours and Social Connectedness of Adolescents in Immigrant Families: Evidence from Australia
Using data from Australia, health behavior outcomes and the social connectedness of adolescents in immigrant families are contrasted with the outcomes of adolescents in non‐immigrant families. Findings suggest that first and second generation adolescents are less likely to drink alcohol and lack social support than third generation adolescents, but more likely not to be physically active and not to have membership to a social club or group than t…
Do disabilities in former Tanf families hasten their returns to cash assistance
Time for Work and Work Timing Among Married Couples Raising Children with Disabilities
Using Australian time-diary data, this study examines the effects of child disability on couples' work patterns. Findings show that while mothers' labor force participation, work hours, and exact scheduling of hours of paid employment over a twenty-four-hour day were associated with raising children with disabilities, these areas of fathers' paid work lives were unaffected. Results for control variables confirmed previous findings in the literatu…
Explaining SNAP Nonparticipation among Food-Insecure Poor and Near-Poor Households with Dependent Children
Why households eligible for SNAP do not participate has perplexed scholars. Explanations exist, but few explore whether SNAP nonparticipation coincides with private food assistance. Applying an innovative empirical strategy to SIPP data, we investigate the link between SNAP nonparticipation and private food assistance among vulnerable households with children. We find that SNAP nonparticipation is greater when households are also less likely to r…
Piketty and the Political Origins of Inequality
We examine Thomas Piketty's explanations for steady and rising inequality in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the decline of inequality in the half-century after World War I, and the return of high levels of inequality since the 1970s. We specify empirical and conceptual problems with his analysis, which stem from his presentation of causality at a highly general and vague level. That leads him to confuse rather than clarify the caus…
How architectural principles can help conceptualize and analyze breakups among intergenerational households
Guided by two architectural design principles, we investigated whether differences in the ways intergenerational households were structured could predict the odds of intergenerational households breaking apart. The two architectural design principles guiding our study were: (a) to classify structures, such as intergenerational households, according to a hierarchical ordering, in our case, a generational hierarchy, first, second, third, and so for…
Determinants of Informal Social Help Among Women Enduring Marital Separation and Poverty
Economics (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Demographic economics (15 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (12 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (11 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Political science (9 works)