Bessie Wilkerson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6045409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bessie Wilkerson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bessie |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkerson |
| SIGNATURE | WILKERSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harlem Children's Zone |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cleaning up their act
We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate changes in binge drinking, marijuana use, and cigarette smoking surrounding young adults’ first experiences of cohabitation and marriage. Both marriage and cohabitation are accompanied by decreases in some risk behaviors, but reductions surrounding marriage are larger and most consistent, particularly for men. Binge drinking and marijuana use respond to these events, especiall…
The Northeast-Northwest Collaborative Adoption Project
One of the exciting new directions in family research is the examination of shared and nonshared environmental processes underlying the learning of cognitive, literacy, and social-behavioral skills. The adoption design is a powerful method for testing theories regarding environmental mechanisms. In this paper, we describe the Northeast-Northwest Collaborative Adoption Project (N2CAP), an ongoing adoption study in which we are examining the role o…
Cleaning up their act
We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate changes in binge drinking, marijuana use, and cigarette smoking surrounding young adults’ first experiences of cohabitation and marriage. Both marriage and cohabitation are accompanied by decreases in some risk behaviors, but reductions surrounding marriage are larger and most consistent, particularly for men. Binge drinking and marijuana use respond to these events, especiall…
The Northeast-Northwest Collaborative Adoption Project
One of the exciting new directions in family research is the examination of shared and nonshared environmental processes underlying the learning of cognitive, literacy, and social-behavioral skills. The adoption design is a powerful method for testing theories regarding environmental mechanisms. In this paper, we describe the Northeast-Northwest Collaborative Adoption Project (N2CAP), an ongoing adoption study in which we are examining the role o…
Cleaning up their act
We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate changes in binge drinking, marijuana use, and cigarette smoking surrounding young adults’ first experiences of cohabitation and marriage. Both marriage and cohabitation are accompanied by decreases in some risk behaviors, but reductions surrounding marriage are larger and most consistent, particularly for men. Binge drinking and marijuana use respond to these events, especiall…
Political science (2 works) · Business (1 work) · Child Development and Digital Technology (1 work) · Child Welfare and Adoption (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Cognitive development (1 work) · Cohabitation (1 work) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (1 work) · Developmental psychology (1 work) · Drug (1 work)