David Ansong
Biographic Data
| ID | 4100365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Ansong |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Ansong |
| SIGNATURE | ANSONG D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4624-3337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 34 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Examining the Influence of Perceived Neighborhood Environment and Connectedness on the Mental Health Symptoms of Black Adolescent Serious Offenders
Assessing the Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Foster Youth Mental Health Services Utilization
Sex Trafficking Prevention for Youth With Disabilities
Future research should explore how coalition building among organizations occurs via interpersonal ties (e.g., boundary spanners). Findings can influence cohesive responses to sex trafficking that incorporate service needs of youth with disabilities
The Impact of Community‐Level Social and Economic Factors on Healthcare Access Among Individuals With Mental Illness
Aims: We examined how community‐level socioeconomic deprivation and residential stability impact healthcare access among a sample of individuals with mental illness. Methods: We linked five years of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS; 2013–2017) with community‐level data, drawing a sample of adults with mental illness in the United Sates ( N = 5444). Descriptive statistics and bivariate and multivariable logistic regression models are pre…
Addressing Kinship Caregivers’ Ambivalence and Internalized Stigma to Improve Acceptance of Financial Assistance for Children in Foster Care
Financial assistance programs, such as the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program, provide essential ongoing support for the care of children when reunification with their biological parents or adoption by other families is not feasible. However, these programs are underutilized by relatives who step in to provide stable, permanent homes for these children, partly due to unresolved internal conflicts about accepting financial support for caring …
Examining Financial Hardship and Caregiver Subgroups in Kinship Foster Placements
Children placed with kinship foster parents can experience less disruption and stronger family ties than children in non-kinship placements. However, financial hardship can restrict kinship caregivers from taking in relatives’ children. This study investigated (1) kinship caregivers’ financial standing compared to a national subsample of caregivers and (2) whether certain factors moderate the likelihood that a kinship caregiver will be able to pr…
Examining Permanency-Related Outcomes for American Indian Children in the Foster Care System in the Context of the Indian Child Welfare Act
Digital technologies, equitable gender norms, and sexual health practices across sexting patterns among forcibly displaced adolescents in the slums of Kampala, Uganda
Private supplementary tutoring expenditures and children’s learning outcomes
Implementation and effectiveness of the Indian Child Welfare Act
Developmental Relationships between Attention Problems and Reading Skills in Black and White Elementary School Students
Academic performance in preschool and early elementary grades has long been linked with child attention problems. There is empirical and theoretical support that this co-occurrence is attributable to longitudinal relations between attention and reading problems. However, the literature to date—coming primarily from psychology disciplines—has insufficiently explored the possibility that the relationship between attention problems and reading perfo…
Household Financial Capability and Economic Hardship
Predicting Financial Well-Being Using the Financial Capability Perspective
Improving Parenting Competency and Permanency Awareness for Kinship Foster Parents Through In-Service Licensure Training
Exploring the Protective Value of Using Sexting for Condom Negotiation on Condom use Determinants and Practices Among Forcibly Displaced Adolescents in the Slums of Kampala, Uganda
Introducing the Disease Outbreak Resilience Index (Dori) Using the Demographic and Health Surveys Data from sub-Saharan Africa
Although most studies on disease emergencies underscore the need for household readiness for shocks associated with disease outbreaks, no study to date has provided a holistic measure for profiling households based on their readiness toward disease outbreaks. This paper introduces a novel Disease Outbreak Resilience Index (DORI) using a multidimensional approach that draws on the Alkire-Foster methodology. DORI measures disease outbreak resilienc…
Regional trends and the role of school support staff in suspensions of students with disabilities
Addressing the Burden of Education Financing in Low and Lower-Middle-Income Countries
Harmonizing Longitudinal and Survival Data Using a Joint-Modeling Framework
Objective: This article is an exposition of the joint-modeling approach to testing intervention effects through the harmonization of longitudinal and time-to-event data. We demonstrate the advantages of the joint-modeling approach over the classical approach of separately analyzing these types of outcome data. Method: We used a subset of 150 participants from the Illinois Birth through Three Title IV-E Waiver intervention study, which collected l…
How Financial Resilience Shapes Social and Public Health Policy Choices in Africa
Objective: Scant evidence exists indicating how governments in African countries consider the economic vulnerability of their populations when instituting initial social control policies. This study examined possible clusters of financial resilience among African countries and how these clusters predicted the length of social control policies. Method: We harmonized country-level financial resilience data from the World Bank 2019 Global Findex dat…
Evidence Building and Information Accumulation
Objective: Intervention evaluation typically follows a frequentist paradigm: New analyses are conducted for each subsequent study, and findings are then used to improve policy practice. This approach largely ignores data from prior studies, leading to information loss and incomplete or inaccurate conclusions. Unlike the frequentist paradigm, the Bayesian paradigm uses formative data (as priors), which can be updated with the summative data, thus …
The Role of Social Support and Psychological Well-Being in STEM Performance Trends across Gender and Locality
Bayesian Modeling of Space and Time Dynamics
Objective: This article introduces Bayesian spatial–temporal modeling for social and health science research. We use the World Bank’s World Development Indicators data on youth unemployment and HIV risk in Africa to illustrate the utility of the Bayesian paradigm in modeling space–time changes in outcomes. Method: Data on adolescents and young adults were collected in 36 African countries from 1991 to 2014. We examined associations between HIV ri…
Perceived family economic hardship and student engagement among junior high schoolers in Ghana
Predictors of Capacity-Building Needs Among Nongovernmental Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) play important roles in social development in the Global South. However, little evidence exists concerning NGOs’ capacity-building needs. We sought to understand organizational and network factors that explain capacity-building needs. Using an online survey of 282 NGOs in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria, we found high levels of capacity-building need, particularly concerning resource development. Using multivariate …
The role of parent, classmate, and teacher support in student engagement
Future Orientation as a Mediator between Assets and Perceived Household Economic Stability
This article tests the mediation effects of future orientation in the relationship between assets and perceived economic stability. The first model, proposed by Sherraden, presents the direct effects of assets on perceived economic stability without any intermediary role of future orientation. The second model presents a model of asset effects on perceived economic stability that is fully mediated by future orientation as proposed by Shobe and Pa…
Bayesian Modeling of Space and Time Dynamics
Objective: This article introduces Bayesian spatial–temporal modeling for social and health science research. We use the World Bank’s World Development Indicators data on youth unemployment and HIV risk in Africa to illustrate the utility of the Bayesian paradigm in modeling space–time changes in outcomes. Method: Data on adolescents and young adults were collected in 36 African countries from 1991 to 2014. We examined associations between HIV ri…
How do student and school characteristics influence youth academic achievement in Ghana? A hierarchical linear modeling of Ghana YouthSave baseline data
Regional trends and the role of school support staff in suspensions of students with disabilities
Predictors of Capacity-Building Needs Among Nongovernmental Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) play important roles in social development in the Global South. However, little evidence exists concerning NGOs’ capacity-building needs. We sought to understand organizational and network factors that explain capacity-building needs. Using an online survey of 282 NGOs in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria, we found high levels of capacity-building need, particularly concerning resource development. Using multivariate …
Addressing Kinship Caregivers’ Ambivalence and Internalized Stigma to Improve Acceptance of Financial Assistance for Children in Foster Care
Financial assistance programs, such as the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program, provide essential ongoing support for the care of children when reunification with their biological parents or adoption by other families is not feasible. However, these programs are underutilized by relatives who step in to provide stable, permanent homes for these children, partly due to unresolved internal conflicts about accepting financial support for caring …
Examining Permanency-Related Outcomes for American Indian Children in the Foster Care System in the Context of the Indian Child Welfare Act
Introducing the Disease Outbreak Resilience Index (Dori) Using the Demographic and Health Surveys Data from sub-Saharan Africa
Although most studies on disease emergencies underscore the need for household readiness for shocks associated with disease outbreaks, no study to date has provided a holistic measure for profiling households based on their readiness toward disease outbreaks. This paper introduces a novel Disease Outbreak Resilience Index (DORI) using a multidimensional approach that draws on the Alkire-Foster methodology. DORI measures disease outbreak resilienc…
Evidence Building and Information Accumulation
Objective: Intervention evaluation typically follows a frequentist paradigm: New analyses are conducted for each subsequent study, and findings are then used to improve policy practice. This approach largely ignores data from prior studies, leading to information loss and incomplete or inaccurate conclusions. Unlike the frequentist paradigm, the Bayesian paradigm uses formative data (as priors), which can be updated with the summative data, thus …
Perceived family economic hardship and student engagement among junior high schoolers in Ghana
The role of child and parent savings in promoting expectations for university education among middle school students in Ghana
Livestock Inheritance and Education
This study investigates current practices and attitudes regarding livestock inheritance and education. There is evidence that investments in education may in some cases replace traditional forms of livestock inheritance, reflecting current perceptions of the relative values of pastoralism and forms of employment for which formal education is required. This trend suggests that a long-standing and critical mechanism for intergenerational transmissi…
Youth and savings in AssetsAfrica
Assets and child well-being in developing countries
Youth and savings in AssetsAfrica
Livestock Inheritance and Education
This study investigates current practices and attitudes regarding livestock inheritance and education. There is evidence that investments in education may in some cases replace traditional forms of livestock inheritance, reflecting current perceptions of the relative values of pastoralism and forms of employment for which formal education is required. This trend suggests that a long-standing and critical mechanism for intergenerational transmissi…
Future Orientation as a Mediator between Assets and Perceived Household Economic Stability
This article tests the mediation effects of future orientation in the relationship between assets and perceived economic stability. The first model, proposed by Sherraden, presents the direct effects of assets on perceived economic stability without any intermediary role of future orientation. The second model presents a model of asset effects on perceived economic stability that is fully mediated by future orientation as proposed by Shobe and Pa…
The Roles of Livestock Inheritance and Formal Education in Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Pastoralists in Samburu District, Kenya
Samburu pastoralists often express the belief that formal education may be an alternative route out of poverty for poor pastoralists. The roles of parental wealth, livestock inheritance, and education in household wealth and income are investigated for two communities. Parental wealth and primary education, but not amount of livestock inherited, are positively associated with household wealth. Educational attainment is not statistically significa…
How do student and school characteristics influence youth academic achievement in Ghana? A hierarchical linear modeling of Ghana YouthSave baseline data
Household assets, academic expectations, and academic performance among Ghanaian junior high school students
The role of child and parent savings in promoting expectations for university education among middle school students in Ghana
The role of parent, classmate, and teacher support in student engagement
Perceived family economic hardship and student engagement among junior high schoolers in Ghana
Predictors of Capacity-Building Needs Among Nongovernmental Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) play important roles in social development in the Global South. However, little evidence exists concerning NGOs’ capacity-building needs. We sought to understand organizational and network factors that explain capacity-building needs. Using an online survey of 282 NGOs in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria, we found high levels of capacity-building need, particularly concerning resource development. Using multivariate …
Bayesian Modeling of Space and Time Dynamics
Objective: This article introduces Bayesian spatial–temporal modeling for social and health science research. We use the World Bank’s World Development Indicators data on youth unemployment and HIV risk in Africa to illustrate the utility of the Bayesian paradigm in modeling space–time changes in outcomes. Method: Data on adolescents and young adults were collected in 36 African countries from 1991 to 2014. We examined associations between HIV ri…
Evidence Building and Information Accumulation
Objective: Intervention evaluation typically follows a frequentist paradigm: New analyses are conducted for each subsequent study, and findings are then used to improve policy practice. This approach largely ignores data from prior studies, leading to information loss and incomplete or inaccurate conclusions. Unlike the frequentist paradigm, the Bayesian paradigm uses formative data (as priors), which can be updated with the summative data, thus …
The Role of Social Support and Psychological Well-Being in STEM Performance Trends across Gender and Locality
Addressing the Burden of Education Financing in Low and Lower-Middle-Income Countries
Harmonizing Longitudinal and Survival Data Using a Joint-Modeling Framework
Objective: This article is an exposition of the joint-modeling approach to testing intervention effects through the harmonization of longitudinal and time-to-event data. We demonstrate the advantages of the joint-modeling approach over the classical approach of separately analyzing these types of outcome data. Method: We used a subset of 150 participants from the Illinois Birth through Three Title IV-E Waiver intervention study, which collected l…
How Financial Resilience Shapes Social and Public Health Policy Choices in Africa
Objective: Scant evidence exists indicating how governments in African countries consider the economic vulnerability of their populations when instituting initial social control policies. This study examined possible clusters of financial resilience among African countries and how these clusters predicted the length of social control policies. Method: We harmonized country-level financial resilience data from the World Bank 2019 Global Findex dat…
Household Financial Capability and Economic Hardship
Predicting Financial Well-Being Using the Financial Capability Perspective
Improving Parenting Competency and Permanency Awareness for Kinship Foster Parents Through In-Service Licensure Training
Exploring the Protective Value of Using Sexting for Condom Negotiation on Condom use Determinants and Practices Among Forcibly Displaced Adolescents in the Slums of Kampala, Uganda
Introducing the Disease Outbreak Resilience Index (Dori) Using the Demographic and Health Surveys Data from sub-Saharan Africa
Although most studies on disease emergencies underscore the need for household readiness for shocks associated with disease outbreaks, no study to date has provided a holistic measure for profiling households based on their readiness toward disease outbreaks. This paper introduces a novel Disease Outbreak Resilience Index (DORI) using a multidimensional approach that draws on the Alkire-Foster methodology. DORI measures disease outbreak resilienc…
Regional trends and the role of school support staff in suspensions of students with disabilities
Digital technologies, equitable gender norms, and sexual health practices across sexting patterns among forcibly displaced adolescents in the slums of Kampala, Uganda
Private supplementary tutoring expenditures and children’s learning outcomes
Psychology (24 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)