Radha Jagannathan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3819804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Radha Jagannathan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Radha |
| FAMILY NAME | Jagannathan |
| SIGNATURE | JAGANNATHAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Conceptualizing and testing the vicious cycle in child protective services: The critical role played by child maltreatment fatalities
Social outrage and organizational behavior: A national study of child protective service decisions
The Future of the Family Cap: Fertility Effects 18 Years Post-Implementation
Family caps are the one welfare reform explicitly designed to reduce birth rates among poor, unmarried women. These policies generate a great deal of controversy due to the groups of women they target, the mechanisms through which they operate, and the effects they purport to produce. This article presents results from a national study with 18 years of post–family cap data. We find that family caps reduce nonmarital births by about 2 per 1,000 an…
Protecting Children in the Age of Outrage: A New Perspective on Child Protective Services Reform
This book proposes what, to many professionals in the child welfare field, will appear a radically different explanation for society's decisions to protect children from harm and for the significant drop in substantiated child abuse numbers. At the center of this conceptual and analytic approach is the contention that social outrage emanating from horrific and often sensationalized cases of child maltreatment plays a major role in CPS decision ma…
A Latent Growth Curve Model of Nonmarital Births, Abortions, and Pregnancies: Did Welfare Reform Play a Role in Changing the Trajectories
This article uses latent growth models to examine the effect of three welfare reform policies, viz., family caps, stricter work requirements, and time limits on fertility outcomes. The study is the first to extend the application of this statistical modeling approach to an examination of reproductive behavior. Using state level panel data for 1992–2005 we attempt to determine if welfare reform has contributed to changes in the trajectories of non…
The Effect of Child Support Enforcement on Abortion in the U nited S tates
OBJECTIVES: This project aims to answer a critically important question of public policy: Does effective child support enforcement lead to a change in the incidence of abortion across the United States? METHODS: Using state-level data collected from 1978–2003 from a variety of sources, we employ fixed effects regression analysis to examine whether financial security as measured by five types of child support enforcement effectiveness impacts abor…
The crucial role played by social outrage in efforts to reform child protective services
University-community partnering using a targeted mutual-interests approach
In this paper, we describe a six-year effort to create a university-community partnership in a disadvantaged neighborhood bordering Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We discuss the traditional community research and development (TCR&D) model employed by universities and how assumptions made by the university about the capacities of community brokering agents can significantly influence both the time and trajectory of partnership bu…
The Price Effects of Family Caps on Fertility Decisions of Poor Women
Family Caps have been a popular welfare reform policy designed to discourage women on welfare from bearing additional children. It has been thought that the principal mechanism through which a Cap achieves its objective of lower birth rates is the financial pressure placed on women by the denial of cash benefits. Our study uses instrumental variables Probit modeling to directly measure the contribution that price makes to Cap impact on births. We…
Experimental evidence of welfare reform impact on clinical anxiety and depression levels among poor women
How Family Caps Work: Evidence from a National Study
Many experts consider family caps to be the one welfare reform explicitly designed to reduce birth rates among poor unmarried women. Despite the operation of such caps in 23 states, research reports mixed findings on the policy’s effectiveness in reducing nonmarital births. This article presents results from a national study in which family caps were found to affect fertility behavior, but this effect was conditioned by a state’s willingness to u…
Beyond Intention to Treat Analysis in Welfare-to-Work Studies: The Efficacy of Labor Force Attachment, Human Capital Investment and Combined Strategies for Self-Sufficiency
Using a sample of 2072 women who participated in New Jersey's Family Development Program experiment during 1992–1996, we compare three welfare-to-work strategieslabor force attachment (LFA), human capital investment (HCI), and a mixed strategyemploying traditional effectiveness analysis within an experimental design and an efficacy approach which controls for selective participation by experimental and control subjects. Controlling for selective …
Welfare Reform and Child Fostering: Pinpointing Affected Child Populations
Objective. The objective of our research is to examine the impact of New Jersey's welfare reform called the Family Development Program (FDP) on child fostering among children on welfare. Methods. The research and analytical methods we use include an experimental design and probit regressions. Results. Our results show that FDP impacts are confined to children of short‐term welfare recipients (new cases) but affects both African‐American and white…
Children's living arrangements from a social policy implementation perspective
Family Cap and Nonmarital Fertility: The Racial Conditioning of Policy Effects
Using an experimental design, this research examines the effect of the nation's first family cap on the births, abortions, and contraception use of over 8,000 women receiving public assistance in New Jersey. The family cap denies additional cash benefits to children conceived while the mother is receiving public assistance. Our research shows that a targeted welfare benefit manipulation does influence fertility behavior; however, the effect is co…
Relying on Surveys to Understand Abortion Behavior: Some Cautionary Evidence
Objectives. The reliability of abortion self-reports has raised questions about the general usefulness of surveys in research about abortion behavior; however, the extent of underreporting remains a subject of some debate. This study sought to examine abortion reporting in a sample of welfare mothers and to determine factors in underreporting. Methods. In New Jersey, which covers abortions requested by welfare recipients under its Medicaid progra…
Modeling the reliability and predictive validity of risk assessment in child protective services
Evaluating Welfare Reform Waivers Under Section 1115
Beginning in 1962, Section 1115 of the Social Security Act allowed the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive specific provisions of the act within individual states, allowing them to implement welfare experiments or demonstration projects to reduce welfare recipiency, ease transitions into the labor market for welfare clients, or otherwise advance the objectives of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The per…
Relying on Surveys to Understand Abortion Behavior: Some Cautionary Evidence
Objectives. The reliability of abortion self-reports has raised questions about the general usefulness of surveys in research about abortion behavior; however, the extent of underreporting remains a subject of some debate. This study sought to examine abortion reporting in a sample of welfare mothers and to determine factors in underreporting. Methods. In New Jersey, which covers abortions requested by welfare recipients under its Medicaid progra…
Modeling the reliability and predictive validity of risk assessment in child protective services
Family Cap and Nonmarital Fertility: The Racial Conditioning of Policy Effects
Using an experimental design, this research examines the effect of the nation's first family cap on the births, abortions, and contraception use of over 8,000 women receiving public assistance in New Jersey. The family cap denies additional cash benefits to children conceived while the mother is receiving public assistance. Our research shows that a targeted welfare benefit manipulation does influence fertility behavior; however, the effect is co…
Evaluating Welfare Reform Waivers Under Section 1115
Beginning in 1962, Section 1115 of the Social Security Act allowed the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive specific provisions of the act within individual states, allowing them to implement welfare experiments or demonstration projects to reduce welfare recipiency, ease transitions into the labor market for welfare clients, or otherwise advance the objectives of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The per…
University-community partnering using a targeted mutual-interests approach
In this paper, we describe a six-year effort to create a university-community partnership in a disadvantaged neighborhood bordering Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We discuss the traditional community research and development (TCR&D) model employed by universities and how assumptions made by the university about the capacities of community brokering agents can significantly influence both the time and trajectory of partnership bu…
The crucial role played by social outrage in efforts to reform child protective services
How Family Caps Work: Evidence from a National Study
Many experts consider family caps to be the one welfare reform explicitly designed to reduce birth rates among poor unmarried women. Despite the operation of such caps in 23 states, research reports mixed findings on the policy’s effectiveness in reducing nonmarital births. This article presents results from a national study in which family caps were found to affect fertility behavior, but this effect was conditioned by a state’s willingness to u…
The Future of the Family Cap: Fertility Effects 18 Years Post-Implementation
Family caps are the one welfare reform explicitly designed to reduce birth rates among poor, unmarried women. These policies generate a great deal of controversy due to the groups of women they target, the mechanisms through which they operate, and the effects they purport to produce. This article presents results from a national study with 18 years of post–family cap data. We find that family caps reduce nonmarital births by about 2 per 1,000 an…
The Effect of Child Support Enforcement on Abortion in the U nited S tates
OBJECTIVES: This project aims to answer a critically important question of public policy: Does effective child support enforcement lead to a change in the incidence of abortion across the United States? METHODS: Using state-level data collected from 1978–2003 from a variety of sources, we employ fixed effects regression analysis to examine whether financial security as measured by five types of child support enforcement effectiveness impacts abor…
Social outrage and organizational behavior: A national study of child protective service decisions
The Price Effects of Family Caps on Fertility Decisions of Poor Women
Family Caps have been a popular welfare reform policy designed to discourage women on welfare from bearing additional children. It has been thought that the principal mechanism through which a Cap achieves its objective of lower birth rates is the financial pressure placed on women by the denial of cash benefits. Our study uses instrumental variables Probit modeling to directly measure the contribution that price makes to Cap impact on births. We…
Experimental evidence of welfare reform impact on clinical anxiety and depression levels among poor women
Children's living arrangements from a social policy implementation perspective
Modeling the reliability and predictive validity of risk assessment in child protective services
Evaluating Welfare Reform Waivers Under Section 1115
Beginning in 1962, Section 1115 of the Social Security Act allowed the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive specific provisions of the act within individual states, allowing them to implement welfare experiments or demonstration projects to reduce welfare recipiency, ease transitions into the labor market for welfare clients, or otherwise advance the objectives of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The per…
Relying on Surveys to Understand Abortion Behavior: Some Cautionary Evidence
Objectives. The reliability of abortion self-reports has raised questions about the general usefulness of surveys in research about abortion behavior; however, the extent of underreporting remains a subject of some debate. This study sought to examine abortion reporting in a sample of welfare mothers and to determine factors in underreporting. Methods. In New Jersey, which covers abortions requested by welfare recipients under its Medicaid progra…
Family Cap and Nonmarital Fertility: The Racial Conditioning of Policy Effects
Using an experimental design, this research examines the effect of the nation's first family cap on the births, abortions, and contraception use of over 8,000 women receiving public assistance in New Jersey. The family cap denies additional cash benefits to children conceived while the mother is receiving public assistance. Our research shows that a targeted welfare benefit manipulation does influence fertility behavior; however, the effect is co…
Children's living arrangements from a social policy implementation perspective
Beyond Intention to Treat Analysis in Welfare-to-Work Studies: The Efficacy of Labor Force Attachment, Human Capital Investment and Combined Strategies for Self-Sufficiency
Using a sample of 2072 women who participated in New Jersey's Family Development Program experiment during 1992–1996, we compare three welfare-to-work strategieslabor force attachment (LFA), human capital investment (HCI), and a mixed strategyemploying traditional effectiveness analysis within an experimental design and an efficacy approach which controls for selective participation by experimental and control subjects. Controlling for selective …
Welfare Reform and Child Fostering: Pinpointing Affected Child Populations
Objective. The objective of our research is to examine the impact of New Jersey's welfare reform called the Family Development Program (FDP) on child fostering among children on welfare. Methods. The research and analytical methods we use include an experimental design and probit regressions. Results. Our results show that FDP impacts are confined to children of short‐term welfare recipients (new cases) but affects both African‐American and white…
How Family Caps Work: Evidence from a National Study
Many experts consider family caps to be the one welfare reform explicitly designed to reduce birth rates among poor unmarried women. Despite the operation of such caps in 23 states, research reports mixed findings on the policy’s effectiveness in reducing nonmarital births. This article presents results from a national study in which family caps were found to affect fertility behavior, but this effect was conditioned by a state’s willingness to u…
The Price Effects of Family Caps on Fertility Decisions of Poor Women
Family Caps have been a popular welfare reform policy designed to discourage women on welfare from bearing additional children. It has been thought that the principal mechanism through which a Cap achieves its objective of lower birth rates is the financial pressure placed on women by the denial of cash benefits. Our study uses instrumental variables Probit modeling to directly measure the contribution that price makes to Cap impact on births. We…
Experimental evidence of welfare reform impact on clinical anxiety and depression levels among poor women
The crucial role played by social outrage in efforts to reform child protective services
University-community partnering using a targeted mutual-interests approach
In this paper, we describe a six-year effort to create a university-community partnership in a disadvantaged neighborhood bordering Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We discuss the traditional community research and development (TCR&D) model employed by universities and how assumptions made by the university about the capacities of community brokering agents can significantly influence both the time and trajectory of partnership bu…
A Latent Growth Curve Model of Nonmarital Births, Abortions, and Pregnancies: Did Welfare Reform Play a Role in Changing the Trajectories
This article uses latent growth models to examine the effect of three welfare reform policies, viz., family caps, stricter work requirements, and time limits on fertility outcomes. The study is the first to extend the application of this statistical modeling approach to an examination of reproductive behavior. Using state level panel data for 1992–2005 we attempt to determine if welfare reform has contributed to changes in the trajectories of non…
The Effect of Child Support Enforcement on Abortion in the U nited S tates
OBJECTIVES: This project aims to answer a critically important question of public policy: Does effective child support enforcement lead to a change in the incidence of abortion across the United States? METHODS: Using state-level data collected from 1978–2003 from a variety of sources, we employ fixed effects regression analysis to examine whether financial security as measured by five types of child support enforcement effectiveness impacts abor…
Protecting Children in the Age of Outrage: A New Perspective on Child Protective Services Reform
This book proposes what, to many professionals in the child welfare field, will appear a radically different explanation for society's decisions to protect children from harm and for the significant drop in substantiated child abuse numbers. At the center of this conceptual and analytic approach is the contention that social outrage emanating from horrific and often sensationalized cases of child maltreatment plays a major role in CPS decision ma…
The Future of the Family Cap: Fertility Effects 18 Years Post-Implementation
Family caps are the one welfare reform explicitly designed to reduce birth rates among poor, unmarried women. These policies generate a great deal of controversy due to the groups of women they target, the mechanisms through which they operate, and the effects they purport to produce. This article presents results from a national study with 18 years of post–family cap data. We find that family caps reduce nonmarital births by about 2 per 1,000 an…
Social outrage and organizational behavior: A national study of child protective service decisions
Conceptualizing and testing the vicious cycle in child protective services: The critical role played by child maltreatment fatalities
Economics (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Welfare (11 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works)