Lenna Nepomnyaschy
Biographic Data
| ID | 74943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lenna Nepomnyaschy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lenna |
| FAMILY NAME | Nepomnyaschy |
| SIGNATURE | NEPOMNYASCHY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1717-8994 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 427 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Sports team participation in high school and adolescent and young adult depression and anxiety across sex, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status
Poor mental health among adolescents and young adults in the United States today is a critical concern. Sports team participation, combining physical activity and social belonging, may be an effective component of interventions to improve mental health among this population. This study examines both short and long‐term associations between sports team participation in adolescence and anxiety and depression from adolescence to young adulthood, usi…
Fathers’ Socioeconomic Precarity and Mothers’ Ability to Make Ends Meet
Economic and policy changes since Making Ends Meet was first published have fundamentally restructured the social safety net available to single mothers, while simultaneously eroding the economic position of the men with whom they share children. This study examines the degree of socioeconomic precarity among nonresident fathers and its implications for the economic well-being of mothers in the post-welfare reform era, using data from the Future …
Perceptions of school climate and depression among Black youth: Do sex and income matter
Schools play a crucial role in shaping adolescents' development as they navigate the social world beyond their families, with school climate-students' perceptions of the social environment-emerging as a key influence on their mental health outcomes. Previous studies with Black adolescent samples from lower socioeconomic backgrounds have found a link between school climate perceptions and psychological functioning. Black adolescents have been foun…
The family policing industrial complex: The shadow carceral state in sites intended for the support of families
The US criminal punishment system, undergirded by carceral logics that center retributive punishment for all measure of offenses, has extended far beyond the walls of formal institutions of incarceration as a shadow carceral state, including into the institution of the family. Families, particularly those of color and who are low-income, face these carceral logics in systems expected to provide support and services, but that often reinforce and r…
School Connectedness and Mental Health Among Black Adolescents
Child support debt and the well‐being of disadvantaged fathers of color
Objective Using a survey sample comprised of predominantly low‐income fathers of color, we examine whether child support debt (arrears) is associated with fathers' poor physical health, depression, and material hardship 9 years after their child's birth. Background About 70% of the $113.5 billion in outstanding arrears is held by men earning $10,000 or less, and an emerging body of research suggests arrears can negatively impact economically disa…
Nonresident Fathers and the Economic Precarity of Their Children
This study examines the relationship between nonresident fathers and their children's economic precarity. We use a racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse sample of children in large U.S. cities and consider a comprehensive set of measures of the involvement of nonresident fathers in their lives. We evaluate both voluntary and involuntary (court-ordered child support) involvement of fathers, and we look at material hardship and income…
Head Start and Nonresident Fathers' Involvement with Children
Objective This study explores the associations of children's Head Start participation with the involvement and material contributions of their nonresident fathers. Background Head Start, which provides comprehensive child care services to over 1 million low‐income children annually, aims to enhance relationships and increase parental involvement among participating families. Prior studies indicate that Head Start increases engagement among mother…
Parental Debt and Child Well-Being: What Type of Debt Matters for Child Outcomes
Lenna Nepomnyaschy a, Allison Dwyer Emory b, Kasey J. Eickmeyer c, Maureen R. Waller d, Daniel P. Miller e, Parental Debt and Child Well-Being: What Type of Debt Matters for Child Outcomes?, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 3, Wealth Inequality and Child Development: Implications for Policy and Practice (August 2021), pp. 122-151
The Minimum Wage and Fathers’ Residence with Children
Providing After Prison: Nonresident Fathers’ Formal and Informal Contributions to Children
Allison Dwyer Emory a, Lenna Nepomnyaschy b, Maureen R. Waller c, Daniel P. Miller d, Alexandra Haralampoudis e, Providing After Prison: Nonresident Fathers’ Formal and Informal Contributions to Children, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1, The Criminal Justice System as a Labor Market Institution (March 2020), pp. 84-112
Using a Narrative Approach to Analyze Longitudinal Mixed Methods Data
Despite growing interest in longitudinal mixed methods research designs, more strategies for analyzing and integrating these data are needed. This article contributes to the field of mixed methods research by presenting a novel narrative approach to data analysis in longitudinal studies. Our approach involves the transformation of longitudinal survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study into narrative case histories. We use qu…
The Role of Fathers in Reducing Socioeconomic Inequalities in Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes
There are well-established disparities in children’s socioemotional well-being by family socioeconomic status (SES). Although evidence suggests that father involvement can improve child outcomes, no studies have considered whether father involvement among low-SES children can reduce such gaps. We use 10 years of panel data on children born in large US cities to explore the associations between father involvement and behavior problems among 15-yea…
Father Involvement and Socioeconomic Disparities in Child Academic Outcomes
ObjectiveThis article explores whether father involvement can reduce socioeconomic disparities in child academic outcomes.BackgroundAn emerging body of literature points to the benefits to children of involvement by low-socioeconomic status (SES) fathers. Research has not systematically investigated whether differences in father involvement can account for SES-based disparities in child outcomes.MethodThis study used data from 12,030 unique child…
Intimate Partner Violence and Material Hardship Among Urban Mothers
Using a longitudinal population-based sample ( n = 4,234), this study explored the association of intimate partner violence (IPV) with material hardship. We found that women who experienced IPV are substantially more likely to experience material hardship, even after controlling for a comprehensive set of static and time-varying characteristics, including material hardship at the prior wave and individual fixed effects. Associations were stronges…
Describing and Understanding Child Support Trajectories
Child support is a key resource for children living apart from their fathers, yet little is known about how child support changes over the course of childhood, particularly for different types of child support and by parents’ relationship status at the child’s birth. This study uses longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine trajectories of formal, informal, and total cash and in-kind support provided by nonr…
Neighborhood Physical Disorder and Early Delinquency Among Urban Children
The neighborhoods in which children grow up have consequences for their short- and long-term well-being. Although most neighborhood research measures disadvantage at the census tract level, more proximate physical characteristics of neighborhoods may be more relevant indicators of neighborhood quality for the well-being of young children. Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this study explores the association between these more …
Father Involvement and Childhood Injuries
Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death for children in the United States. Parental supervision is a key factor in preventing injuries, but little is known about the role of fathers. Today, one quarter of children live with a single mother, and another third live with a mother and her new partner, resulting in tremendous diversity in the amount and type of paternal involvement in children's lives. The authors examined the effects of in…
Child Support in Immigrant Families
Family Structure and Child Food Insecurity
Objectives. We examined whether food insecurity was different for children in cohabiting or repartnered families versus those in single-mother or married-parent (biological) families. Methods. We compared probabilities of child food insecurity (CFI) across different family structures in 4 national data sets: the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), the Early Childhood Lo…
Nonresident Fathers and Child Food Insecurity: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
More than 1 in 10 children in the United States experience food insecurity, and children in single-mother families are at greatest risk. We examine the associations of nonresident father involvement and child food insecurity using two nationally representative panel data sets of children in early and middle childhood. Nonresident father involvement, based on a comprehensive index, is associated with lower food insecurity in both early and middle …
Cyclical Cohabitation Among Unmarried Parents in Fragile Families
Building on past research suggesting that cohabitation is an ambiguous family form, the authors examined an understudied residential pattern among unmarried parents: cyclical cohabitation, in which parents have multiple cohabitation spells with each other. Using 9 years of panel data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2,084), they found that 10% of all parents with nonmarital births and nearly a quarter of those living toget…
Child Support and Young Children’s Development
This study examines the effects of nonresident fathers' provision of formal and informal cash child support on children's cognitive skills and behavior at 5 years of age. Taking advantage of the panel structure of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we control for child outcomes at age 3 and a rich set of child and family sociodemographic and psychosocial characteristics. We find that fathers' provision of informal cash support (but n…
Developmental Outcomes of Late-Preterm Infants at 2 and 4 Years
Fathers’ Involvement with Their Nonresident Children and Material Hardship
Children in single-parent families, particularly children born to unmarried parents, are at high risk for experiencing material hardship. Previous research based on cross-sectional data suggests that father involvement, especially visitation, diminishes hardship. This article uses longitudinal data to examine the associations between nonresident fathers' involvement with their children and material hardship in the children's households. Results s…
Paternity Leave and Fathers' Involvement With Their Young Children: Evidence from the American Ecls–B
Unlike many European countries, the US has no national paternity leave policy giving fathers the right to take paid time off work following the birth (or adoption) of a child. Despite this, prior research suggests that many fathers do take some time off work after a child is born. However, little is known about the determinants, circumstances or consequences of paternal leave-taking. In this paper, we use the first wave of data from the Early Chi…
Child Support Enforcement and Fathers’ Contributions to Their Nonmarital Children
This study examines the total package of child support that mothers receive from the nonresident fathers of their children, by focusing on three components of total support: formal cash, informal cash, and in-kind support. Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this article considers how contributions change over time and the effects of child support enforcement on these contributions. Findings suggest that total cash support recei…
Child support and father-child contact: Testing reciprocal pathways
I use three waves of panel data to examine the relationship between child support payments and fathers’ contact with their nonmarital children. I disaggregate support into fathers’ formal and informal payments and incorporate cross-lagged effects models to identify the direction of causality between payments and contact. After including the behavior from the prior wave (lagged term) and a rich set of family characteristics, I find a marginally si…
Fathers’ Involvement with Their Nonresident Children and Material Hardship
Children in single-parent families, particularly children born to unmarried parents, are at high risk for experiencing material hardship. Previous research based on cross-sectional data suggests that father involvement, especially visitation, diminishes hardship. This article uses longitudinal data to examine the associations between nonresident fathers' involvement with their children and material hardship in the children's households. Results s…
Child Support and Young Children’s Development
This study examines the effects of nonresident fathers' provision of formal and informal cash child support on children's cognitive skills and behavior at 5 years of age. Taking advantage of the panel structure of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we control for child outcomes at age 3 and a rich set of child and family sociodemographic and psychosocial characteristics. We find that fathers' provision of informal cash support (but n…
Sources of Support, Child Care, and Hardship among Unwed Mothers, 1999–2001
Welfare rolls have declined substantially since 1994. However, little is known about the coping strategies that poor mothers use to manage the competing demands of rearing and supporting their children under the new welfare regime. This article uses data from the national Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to describe the sources of support and child‐care arrangements upon which unwed mothers relied, as well as the difficulties they faced…
In-Hospital Paternity Establishment and Father Involvement in Fragile Families
This article assesses the effectiveness of in-hospital paternity establishment, a federal requirement since 1993. We avoid biases in previous studies by using a national sample of nonmarital births (N= 3,254), by including detailed controls for characteristics of unwed mothers and previously unavailable controls for characteristics of fathers, and by estimating reduced form models of the effects of strong paternity establishment regimes. We find …
Nonresident Fathers and Child Food Insecurity: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
More than 1 in 10 children in the United States experience food insecurity, and children in single-mother families are at greatest risk. We examine the associations of nonresident father involvement and child food insecurity using two nationally representative panel data sets of children in early and middle childhood. Nonresident father involvement, based on a comprehensive index, is associated with lower food insecurity in both early and middle …
Cyclical Cohabitation Among Unmarried Parents in Fragile Families
Building on past research suggesting that cohabitation is an ambiguous family form, the authors examined an understudied residential pattern among unmarried parents: cyclical cohabitation, in which parents have multiple cohabitation spells with each other. Using 9 years of panel data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2,084), they found that 10% of all parents with nonmarital births and nearly a quarter of those living toget…
Describing and Understanding Child Support Trajectories
Child support is a key resource for children living apart from their fathers, yet little is known about how child support changes over the course of childhood, particularly for different types of child support and by parents’ relationship status at the child’s birth. This study uses longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine trajectories of formal, informal, and total cash and in-kind support provided by nonr…
Parental Debt and Child Well-Being: What Type of Debt Matters for Child Outcomes
Lenna Nepomnyaschy a, Allison Dwyer Emory b, Kasey J. Eickmeyer c, Maureen R. Waller d, Daniel P. Miller e, Parental Debt and Child Well-Being: What Type of Debt Matters for Child Outcomes?, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 3, Wealth Inequality and Child Development: Implications for Policy and Practice (August 2021), pp. 122-151
Wealth, race/ethnicity, and children's educational outcomes
Providing After Prison: Nonresident Fathers’ Formal and Informal Contributions to Children
Allison Dwyer Emory a, Lenna Nepomnyaschy b, Maureen R. Waller c, Daniel P. Miller d, Alexandra Haralampoudis e, Providing After Prison: Nonresident Fathers’ Formal and Informal Contributions to Children, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1, The Criminal Justice System as a Labor Market Institution (March 2020), pp. 84-112
The Role of Fathers in Reducing Socioeconomic Inequalities in Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes
There are well-established disparities in children’s socioemotional well-being by family socioeconomic status (SES). Although evidence suggests that father involvement can improve child outcomes, no studies have considered whether father involvement among low-SES children can reduce such gaps. We use 10 years of panel data on children born in large US cities to explore the associations between father involvement and behavior problems among 15-yea…
Father Involvement and Socioeconomic Disparities in Child Academic Outcomes
ObjectiveThis article explores whether father involvement can reduce socioeconomic disparities in child academic outcomes.BackgroundAn emerging body of literature points to the benefits to children of involvement by low-socioeconomic status (SES) fathers. Research has not systematically investigated whether differences in father involvement can account for SES-based disparities in child outcomes.MethodThis study used data from 12,030 unique child…
Child Support, Fatherhood, and Marriage: Findings from the First 5 Years of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
In this article, we review what has been learned to date from the first 5 years of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study about child support, fatherhood, and marriage. The article first describes the parents’ circumstances at the time of the child’s birth, then examines the trajectories of parents’ relationships (with each other and others), fathers’ financial contributions and other indicators of fathers’ involvement with their children…
Low Birthweight and Asthma Among Young Urban Children
Objectives. We assessed whether the association between low birthweight and early childhood asthma can be explained by an extensive set of individual- and neighborhood-level measures. Methods. A population-based sample of children born in large US cities during 1998–2000 was followed from birth to age 3 years (N=1803). Associations between low birthweight and asthma diagnosis at age 3 years were estimated using multilevel models. Prenatal medical…
Using a Narrative Approach to Analyze Longitudinal Mixed Methods Data
Despite growing interest in longitudinal mixed methods research designs, more strategies for analyzing and integrating these data are needed. This article contributes to the field of mixed methods research by presenting a novel narrative approach to data analysis in longitudinal studies. Our approach involves the transformation of longitudinal survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study into narrative case histories. We use qu…
Father Involvement and Childhood Injuries
Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death for children in the United States. Parental supervision is a key factor in preventing injuries, but little is known about the role of fathers. Today, one quarter of children live with a single mother, and another third live with a mother and her new partner, resulting in tremendous diversity in the amount and type of paternal involvement in children's lives. The authors examined the effects of in…
Family Structure and Child Food Insecurity
Objectives. We examined whether food insecurity was different for children in cohabiting or repartnered families versus those in single-mother or married-parent (biological) families. Methods. We compared probabilities of child food insecurity (CFI) across different family structures in 4 national data sets: the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), the Early Childhood Lo…
Nonresident Fathers and the Economic Precarity of Their Children
This study examines the relationship between nonresident fathers and their children's economic precarity. We use a racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse sample of children in large U.S. cities and consider a comprehensive set of measures of the involvement of nonresident fathers in their lives. We evaluate both voluntary and involuntary (court-ordered child support) involvement of fathers, and we look at material hardship and income…
Determinants of Tanf Participation: A Multilevel Analysis
This work uses multilevel models to estimate the effects of individual characteristics, local economies, and state policies on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) participation among unmarried mothers with 1‐year‐old children. It also assesses the contributions of the different sets of factors to city variation in rates of TANF participation. Results suggest that the many predictive individual‐level factors account for one‐quarter of t…
Neighborhood Physical Disorder and Early Delinquency Among Urban Children
The neighborhoods in which children grow up have consequences for their short- and long-term well-being. Although most neighborhood research measures disadvantage at the census tract level, more proximate physical characteristics of neighborhoods may be more relevant indicators of neighborhood quality for the well-being of young children. Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this study explores the association between these more …
Race disparities in low birth weight in the U.S. south and the rest of the nation
Effects of Welfare Participation on Marriage
We investigated the widely held premise that welfare participation causes women to refrain from marriage. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3,219), we employed an event history approach to study transitions to marriage among mothers who have had a nonmarital birth. We found that welfare participation reduces the likelihood of transitioning to marriage (hazard ratio is 0.67, p <.01), but only while the mother is r…
Sources of Support, Child Care, and Hardship among Unwed Mothers, 1999–2001
Welfare rolls have declined substantially since 1994. However, little is known about the coping strategies that poor mothers use to manage the competing demands of rearing and supporting their children under the new welfare regime. This article uses data from the national Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to describe the sources of support and child‐care arrangements upon which unwed mothers relied, as well as the difficulties they faced…
In-Hospital Paternity Establishment and Father Involvement in Fragile Families
This article assesses the effectiveness of in-hospital paternity establishment, a federal requirement since 1993. We avoid biases in previous studies by using a national sample of nonmarital births (N= 3,254), by including detailed controls for characteristics of unwed mothers and previously unavailable controls for characteristics of fathers, and by estimating reduced form models of the effects of strong paternity establishment regimes. We find …
Low Birthweight and Asthma Among Young Urban Children
Objectives. We assessed whether the association between low birthweight and early childhood asthma can be explained by an extensive set of individual- and neighborhood-level measures. Methods. A population-based sample of children born in large US cities during 1998–2000 was followed from birth to age 3 years (N=1803). Associations between low birthweight and asthma diagnosis at age 3 years were estimated using multilevel models. Prenatal medical…
Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Obesity and Diagnosis of Asthma in Offspring at Age 3 Years
Child Support, Fatherhood, and Marriage: Findings from the First 5 Years of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
In this article, we review what has been learned to date from the first 5 years of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study about child support, fatherhood, and marriage. The article first describes the parents’ circumstances at the time of the child’s birth, then examines the trajectories of parents’ relationships (with each other and others), fathers’ financial contributions and other indicators of fathers’ involvement with their children…
Child support and father-child contact: Testing reciprocal pathways
I use three waves of panel data to examine the relationship between child support payments and fathers’ contact with their nonmarital children. I disaggregate support into fathers’ formal and informal payments and incorporate cross-lagged effects models to identify the direction of causality between payments and contact. After including the behavior from the prior wave (lagged term) and a rich set of family characteristics, I find a marginally si…
Determinants of Tanf Participation: A Multilevel Analysis
This work uses multilevel models to estimate the effects of individual characteristics, local economies, and state policies on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) participation among unmarried mothers with 1‐year‐old children. It also assesses the contributions of the different sets of factors to city variation in rates of TANF participation. Results suggest that the many predictive individual‐level factors account for one‐quarter of t…
Paternity Leave and Fathers' Involvement With Their Young Children: Evidence from the American Ecls–B
Unlike many European countries, the US has no national paternity leave policy giving fathers the right to take paid time off work following the birth (or adoption) of a child. Despite this, prior research suggests that many fathers do take some time off work after a child is born. However, little is known about the determinants, circumstances or consequences of paternal leave-taking. In this paper, we use the first wave of data from the Early Chi…
Child and Family Outcomes in New York and Tel Aviv: Using Social Indicators in a City Level Comparative Analysis
Socioeconomic Gradients in Infant Health Across Race and Ethnicity
Wealth, race/ethnicity, and children's educational outcomes
Race disparities in low birth weight in the U.S. south and the rest of the nation
Effects of Welfare Participation on Marriage
We investigated the widely held premise that welfare participation causes women to refrain from marriage. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3,219), we employed an event history approach to study transitions to marriage among mothers who have had a nonmarital birth. We found that welfare participation reduces the likelihood of transitioning to marriage (hazard ratio is 0.67, p <.01), but only while the mother is r…
Child Support Enforcement and Fathers’ Contributions to Their Nonmarital Children
This study examines the total package of child support that mothers receive from the nonresident fathers of their children, by focusing on three components of total support: formal cash, informal cash, and in-kind support. Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this article considers how contributions change over time and the effects of child support enforcement on these contributions. Findings suggest that total cash support recei…
Developmental Outcomes of Late-Preterm Infants at 2 and 4 Years
Fathers’ Involvement with Their Nonresident Children and Material Hardship
Children in single-parent families, particularly children born to unmarried parents, are at high risk for experiencing material hardship. Previous research based on cross-sectional data suggests that father involvement, especially visitation, diminishes hardship. This article uses longitudinal data to examine the associations between nonresident fathers' involvement with their children and material hardship in the children's households. Results s…
Child Support and Young Children’s Development
This study examines the effects of nonresident fathers' provision of formal and informal cash child support on children's cognitive skills and behavior at 5 years of age. Taking advantage of the panel structure of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we control for child outcomes at age 3 and a rich set of child and family sociodemographic and psychosocial characteristics. We find that fathers' provision of informal cash support (but n…
Cyclical Cohabitation Among Unmarried Parents in Fragile Families
Building on past research suggesting that cohabitation is an ambiguous family form, the authors examined an understudied residential pattern among unmarried parents: cyclical cohabitation, in which parents have multiple cohabitation spells with each other. Using 9 years of panel data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2,084), they found that 10% of all parents with nonmarital births and nearly a quarter of those living toget…
Child Support in Immigrant Families
Family Structure and Child Food Insecurity
Objectives. We examined whether food insecurity was different for children in cohabiting or repartnered families versus those in single-mother or married-parent (biological) families. Methods. We compared probabilities of child food insecurity (CFI) across different family structures in 4 national data sets: the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), the Early Childhood Lo…
Nonresident Fathers and Child Food Insecurity: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
More than 1 in 10 children in the United States experience food insecurity, and children in single-mother families are at greatest risk. We examine the associations of nonresident father involvement and child food insecurity using two nationally representative panel data sets of children in early and middle childhood. Nonresident father involvement, based on a comprehensive index, is associated with lower food insecurity in both early and middle …
Father Involvement and Childhood Injuries
Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death for children in the United States. Parental supervision is a key factor in preventing injuries, but little is known about the role of fathers. Today, one quarter of children live with a single mother, and another third live with a mother and her new partner, resulting in tremendous diversity in the amount and type of paternal involvement in children's lives. The authors examined the effects of in…
Neighborhood Physical Disorder and Early Delinquency Among Urban Children
The neighborhoods in which children grow up have consequences for their short- and long-term well-being. Although most neighborhood research measures disadvantage at the census tract level, more proximate physical characteristics of neighborhoods may be more relevant indicators of neighborhood quality for the well-being of young children. Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this study explores the association between these more …
Intimate Partner Violence and Material Hardship Among Urban Mothers
Using a longitudinal population-based sample ( n = 4,234), this study explored the association of intimate partner violence (IPV) with material hardship. We found that women who experienced IPV are substantially more likely to experience material hardship, even after controlling for a comprehensive set of static and time-varying characteristics, including material hardship at the prior wave and individual fixed effects. Associations were stronges…
Describing and Understanding Child Support Trajectories
Child support is a key resource for children living apart from their fathers, yet little is known about how child support changes over the course of childhood, particularly for different types of child support and by parents’ relationship status at the child’s birth. This study uses longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine trajectories of formal, informal, and total cash and in-kind support provided by nonr…
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