Chelsea Smith

Biographic Data

ID3583384
NAMEChelsea Smith
GIVEN NAMESChelsea
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH C
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Austin
ORCID0000-0003-3594-6501
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS44
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX5

  • Timing of poverty in childhood and adolescent health: Evidence from the US and UK

    Open AccessMatthew J Green, H Stritzel et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2018Cited by: 9References: 42

  • Family-related Disparities in College Enrollment across the Great Recession

    Open AccessElizabeth Cozzolino, Chelsea Smith et al.ARTICLESociological Perspectives2018Cited by: 3References: 58

    The economic crisis of the Great Recession in the late 2000s had implications for the intergenerational transmission of inequality within families. Studying patterns of college enrollment across the Great Recession among U.S. youth from diverse family contexts provides insight into how economic volatility can either compound or undercut the advantages that some parents can give their children. Although college enrollment among 18- to 21-year-olds…

  • Family, Academic, and Peer Group Predictors of Adolescent Pregnancy Expectations and Young Adult Childbearing

    Open AccessChelsea SmithARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2018References: 31

    Compared with previous generations, today's young people increasingly delay parenthood. Having children in the late teens and early 20s is thus a rarer experience rooted in and potentially leading to the stratification of American families. Understanding why some adolescents expect to do so can illuminate how stratification unfolds. Informed by theories of the life course, social control, and reasoned action, this study used the National Longitud…

  • Family Histories and Teen Pregnancy in the United States and Canada

    Open AccessChelsea Smith, Lisa Strohschein et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2018Cited by: 7References: 54

    Objective: This study took a long view of childhood experiences that can contribute to the risk of teen pregnancy in the United States and Canada, two countries with different norms and policies surrounding family life and inequality.Background: Teenage pregnancy is a major life experience arising from life course trajectories unfolding during a young woman's childhood. Cross-national comparisons can elucidate family-based pathways while embeddin…

  • Mothers' Partnerships, Men in the Home, and Adolescents' Secondary Exposure to Violence

    Open AccessR Crosnoe, H Stritzel et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2018References: 47

    Family instability means that many U.S. youth spend time without biological fathers and with other men. This study extends the literature on the developmental implications of living with fathers and father figures by investigating the association between the presence of mothers' male romantic partners in the home and secondary exposure to violence with a focus on variability according to the identities of the men and the communities of the family…

  • Family Instability and Exposure to Violence in the Early Life Course

    Open AccessShannon Cavanagh, Shannon E Cavanagh et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2017Cited by: 4References: 21

    Family instability has been linked with a host of outcomes across the early life course. This study extends this literature by connecting instability with violence in the community by examining the associations among family structure, family structure change, and secondary exposure to violence during adolescence across diverse segments of the population. Using longitudinal data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods study,…

  • Mothers' Union Statuses and Their Involvement in Young Children's Schooling

    Open AccessRobert W Ressler, Chelsea Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2017Cited by: 6References: 39

    U.S. schools often expect the educational involvement of parents, which may be facilitated when parents have partners, especially a partner also invested in the child. As such, parental involvement at school and at home could be a channel of the diverging destinies of U.S. children from different families. This study applied fixed effects modeling to the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort to examine the link between mothers' u…

  • Family background and contemporary changes in young adults’ school-work transitions and family formation in the United States

    Open AccessChelsea Smith, R Crosnoe et al.ARTICLEResearch in Social Stratification…2016Cited by: 7References: 8

  • Family Background, School-Age Trajectories of Activity Participation, and Academic Achievement at the Start of High School

    R Crosnoe, Jared D Thorpe et al.ARTICLEApplied Developmental Science2015

    Applying latent class and regression techniques to data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development ( n = 997), this study explored the potential academic advantages of time spent in out-of-school activities. Of particular interest was how these potential advantages played out in relation to the timing and duration of activity participation and the family contexts in which it occurred. Participation closer to the start of high …

  • Changes in Young Children’s Family Structures and Child Care Arrangements

    Open AccessR Crosnoe, Jared D Thorpe et al.ARTICLEDemography2014Cited by: 8References: 51

    Family structure change can disrupt the settings of children’s daily lives. Most scholarship focuses on disruption in the home environment. Moving beyond the home, this study explores the association between changes in family structure and changes in several dimensions of early child care. With longitudinal data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n = 1,298), first-difference models reveal that family structure transit…