Pamela Caudill Ovwigho
Biographic Data
| ID | 5940202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela Caudill Ovwigho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela Caudill |
| FAMILY NAME | Ovwigho |
| SIGNATURE | OVWIGHO P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, Baltimore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Children without parents in the Tanf caseload
Scriptural engagement, communication with God, and moral behavior among children
How often an individual reads or listens to scripture is one dimension of private spirituality rarely discussed in the literature. In this study, we use data from a random sample survey of 1009 American children (ages eight to 12) to explore children’s engagement with the Christian Bible, their views of communicating with God, and their moral behavior. Most American children do not read or listen to the Bible regularly, but they do communicate wi…
Do Welfare Avoidance Grants Prevent Cash Assistance
Cash diversion strategies, a 1996 U.S. welfare reform innovation, are intended to alleviate short‐term crises and prevent the need for ongoing cash assistance among certain welfare applicants. Using administrative data, this work compares the welfare outcomes of Maryland Welfare Avoidance Grant recipients from October 1998 to September 2000 $$( n=1,992) $$ with those of a sample of welfare leavers $$( n=1,219) $$. It relies on event‐history analy…
Risk Factors for Child Abuse and Neglect Among Former Tanf Families
Swimming Against the Tide
Survival analysis and qualitative data are used to explore outcomes for 399 women in a job training and educational program geared to help women replace welfare or poverty-rate jobs with living wage jobs. While prior research has focused on aggregate findings and limited outcomes, this study looks at the program context and the participant characteristics which relate to incremental as well as ultimate employment goals. The paper shows why a focu…
Risk Factors for Child Abuse and Neglect Among Former Tanf Families
Swimming Against the Tide
Survival analysis and qualitative data are used to explore outcomes for 399 women in a job training and educational program geared to help women replace welfare or poverty-rate jobs with living wage jobs. While prior research has focused on aggregate findings and limited outcomes, this study looks at the program context and the participant characteristics which relate to incremental as well as ultimate employment goals. The paper shows why a focu…
Do Welfare Avoidance Grants Prevent Cash Assistance
Cash diversion strategies, a 1996 U.S. welfare reform innovation, are intended to alleviate short‐term crises and prevent the need for ongoing cash assistance among certain welfare applicants. Using administrative data, this work compares the welfare outcomes of Maryland Welfare Avoidance Grant recipients from October 1998 to September 2000 $$( n=1,992) $$ with those of a sample of welfare leavers $$( n=1,219) $$. It relies on event‐history analy…
Swimming Against the Tide
Survival analysis and qualitative data are used to explore outcomes for 399 women in a job training and educational program geared to help women replace welfare or poverty-rate jobs with living wage jobs. While prior research has focused on aggregate findings and limited outcomes, this study looks at the program context and the participant characteristics which relate to incremental as well as ultimate employment goals. The paper shows why a focu…
Risk Factors for Child Abuse and Neglect Among Former Tanf Families
Do Welfare Avoidance Grants Prevent Cash Assistance
Cash diversion strategies, a 1996 U.S. welfare reform innovation, are intended to alleviate short‐term crises and prevent the need for ongoing cash assistance among certain welfare applicants. Using administrative data, this work compares the welfare outcomes of Maryland Welfare Avoidance Grant recipients from October 1998 to September 2000 $$( n=1,992) $$ with those of a sample of welfare leavers $$( n=1,219) $$. It relies on event‐history analy…
Scriptural engagement, communication with God, and moral behavior among children
How often an individual reads or listens to scripture is one dimension of private spirituality rarely discussed in the literature. In this study, we use data from a random sample survey of 1009 American children (ages eight to 12) to explore children’s engagement with the Christian Bible, their views of communicating with God, and their moral behavior. Most American children do not read or listen to the Bible regularly, but they do communicate wi…
Children without parents in the Tanf caseload
Welfare (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (2 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (2 works)