Karen Seccombe
Biographic Data
| ID | 82860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Seccombe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Seccombe |
| SIGNATURE | SECCOMBE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 268 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Aftermath of Welfare Reform: Health, Health Insurance, and Access to Care Among Families Leaving Tanf in Oregon
This research reports the initial findings of a statewide study that looks at health, insurance, and access to health care among families leaving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) for work. Most national and state-level evaluation projects focus primarily on the employment characteristics of TANF leavers and pay little or no attention to health and access to health care. The quantitative data are from a sample of 637 adults in Oregon …
Access to Health Care after Welfare Reform
This research uses data from a longitudinal statewide study of Oregon families leaving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) to identify: 1) the trends in insurance coverage over time; 2) the role of health insurance coverage in predicting whether respondents received needed medical care; and 3) the relationship between access to care and physical and mental health. Data were obtained from 637 families seven months after leaving welfare f…
Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform
Beating the Odds" Versus "Changing the Odds: Poverty, Resilience, and Family Policy
Mixed in with national data on declining poverty rates are other signs that poverty, economic hardship, and inequality continue unabated. This essay examines: (a) the scope of poverty and the growing disparity in income and wealth; (b) the consequences of poverty of adults and children; and (c) strategies for improving their resilience. It is suggested that resiliency will be enhanced more by keen attention to national economic policies than by f…
So You Think I Drive a Cadillac? Karen Seccombe
Book note for Karen Seccombe, So You Think I Drive a Cadillac? Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1999. $27.93 papercover
Don't Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America
Families in Poverty in the 1990s: Trends, Causes, Consequences, and Lessons Learned
During the 1990s, poverty rates in the United States remained relatively stable despite a robust economy in which unemployment and inflation were at their lowest points in many years. Approximately 13% of individuals, 11% of families, and 19% of children lived below the poverty line in 1998, a decline of only 1% or less for each of these categories since 1990. These high rates of poverty result in many severe consequences. This essay reviews the …
"So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?" Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System and Its Reforms
They Think You Ain't Much of Nothing: The Social Construction of the Welfare Mother
KAREN SECCOMBE Portland State University DELORES JAMES University of Florida* KIMBERELY BATTLE WALTERS Azusa Pacific University* Welfare reform is in the forefront of the political and social agenda in the United States. This research examines the ways that women on interpret use. From in-depth interviews with 47 women who received cash assistance in 1995, we examined the theories behind their accounts of the stigmatizing of recipients and why th…
The Changing Circumstances of Children's Lives
Changes in Health Insurance Coverage Within Rural and Urban Environments—1977 to 1987
This study examines changes in the health insurance coverage of the nonelderly population in rural and urban areas between 1977 and 1987, using data from the National Medical Care Expenditure Survey (NMCES) and the National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES). It was designed to test the hypothesis that differences in the rates of health insurance coverage in rural and urban areas have diminished over time, and to explore the composition of changes…
Health Insurance Coverage and Use of Services Among Low‐Income Elders: Does Residence Influence the Relationship
This research uses a nationally representative sample of 1,425 low‐income elders from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) to assess the independent and interaction effects of health insurance coverage and residence on the use of seven health care services: doctor visits, visits to other personnel, telephone contact, emergency room visits, overnight hospital stays, outpatient visits, and prescription medicines. It is hypothesized t…
Older People Giving Care: Helping Family and Community
Preface Introduction Caring and Giving Care Study Design and Methodology Age and Giving Care Gender and Giving Care Gender and Informal Help to Family and Friends Gender and the Recipients of Care Gender and Giving Help Through Formal Volunteerism Marriage, Widowhood, and Giving Care Marriage and Informal Help to Family and Friends Marriage and the Recipients of Care Marriage and Giving Help Through Formal Volunteerism Conclusions The Implication…
Health Insurance Coverage of Mexican American Families in the U.S: The Effect of Employment Context and Family Structure in Rural and Urban Settings
This article examines the impact of the employment context and family structure on the health insurance status of Mexican families. Data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey were used to (a) examine the differences in the extent of family coverage among Latino families in the U.S., (b) determine whether differences in the residential distribution of these families is responsible for these differences, and (c) assess the impact of fam…
Playing by the Rules and Losing: Health Insurance and the Working Poor
Using a sample of 7,734 employed adults from the National Medical Expenditure Survey, this research compares the sources of health insurance coverage and the antecedents of employer-sponsored insurance among the working poor to those at higher income thresholds. Concern with the working poor is warranted because they constitute the majority of the uninsured, they do not qualify for public health programs, and their health insurance benefits have …
Gender and social relationships among the never-married
Predicting the Receipt of Employer‐Sponsored Health Insurance: The Role of Residence and Other Personal and Workplace Characteristics
Americans without health insurance constitute a significant public policy concern. Previous research has demonstrated that rural Americans are more likely to be without coverage. Beyond documenting this comparative disadvantage, however, current research has two specific deficiencies: studies have not examined whether the factors that predict the receipt of employer‐sponsored health insurance are equivalent across residence categories, and few st…
Employer Sponsored Medical Benefits: The Influence of Occupational Characteristics and Gender
This research investigates gender differences in employer-sponsored medical fringe benefits: health insurance, dental insurance, sick leave, life insurance, and eye care coverage. Using data from a nationally representative sample of workers in the United States, human capital and structural theoretical approaches are drawn upon to explain the receipt of these benefits. The data suggest (a) men were more likely than women to receive each medical …
Gender and Medical Insurance: A Test of Human Capital Theory
This research investigates gender differences in employer-sponsored medical insurance coverage among full-time male and female workers in the United States and assesses the relevance of human capital theory and its compensating differentials corollary in predicting coverage. Data are analyzed from a subsample of the Quality of Employment Survey, a national probability sample of workers in the United States. Results indicate that men were more lik…
Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Children: Gender Comparisons among Childfree Husbands and Wives
Marital Status and Personal Happiness: An Analysis of Trend Data
This report analyzes General Social Survey data from 1972 through 1989 on the personal happiness of married and never-married individuals. Earlier studies (Glenn and Weaver, 1988) had reported a significant decrease in the difference between these two categories, with the advantage of the married progressively declining from 1972 through 1986. This article shows that the process reversed somewhat during the latter part of the 1980s, with the effe…
Elder Care as Family Labor: The Influence of Gender and Family Position
This research indicates that gender differences in the performance of specific caregiving tasks and the amount of time spent providing care by family caregivers of frail elders should be considered in the context of family position-related norms and expectations. Using a nationally representative sample of noninstitutionalized impaired elderly people in the United States ( N = 813), the results show that husbands (when compared to wives) and daug…
The Impact of Children upon Social Support Networks throughout the Life Course
Influenceability of Sex Differences under Conditions of Risk Taking
The present study was designed to determine if risking monetary loss for conforming behavior may be a condition in which sex differences either exist or fail to occur. It was hypothesized that with increasing risk of punishment sex differences in conformity would disappear. The results did not support the hypothesis. The interaction between subject sex, punishment risk, and group pressure was nonsignificant. More specifically, the interaction bet…
The Effects of Occupational Conditions upon the Division of Household Labor: An Application of Kohn's Theory
In view of the inconsistencies in the findings of tests of resource theory in predicting the division of labor within the home, this study examines another theoretical perspective, drawn from the work of Melvin Kohn. It is suggested that people who work in occupations in which they are highly supervised, who have work tasks that are simple and routinized, and who work with things by hand are likely to value obedience and conformity in the marital…
Beating the Odds" Versus "Changing the Odds: Poverty, Resilience, and Family Policy
Mixed in with national data on declining poverty rates are other signs that poverty, economic hardship, and inequality continue unabated. This essay examines: (a) the scope of poverty and the growing disparity in income and wealth; (b) the consequences of poverty of adults and children; and (c) strategies for improving their resilience. It is suggested that resiliency will be enhanced more by keen attention to national economic policies than by f…
Families in Poverty in the 1990s: Trends, Causes, Consequences, and Lessons Learned
During the 1990s, poverty rates in the United States remained relatively stable despite a robust economy in which unemployment and inflation were at their lowest points in many years. Approximately 13% of individuals, 11% of families, and 19% of children lived below the poverty line in 1998, a decline of only 1% or less for each of these categories since 1990. These high rates of poverty result in many severe consequences. This essay reviews the …
They Think You Ain't Much of Nothing: The Social Construction of the Welfare Mother
KAREN SECCOMBE Portland State University DELORES JAMES University of Florida* KIMBERELY BATTLE WALTERS Azusa Pacific University* Welfare reform is in the forefront of the political and social agenda in the United States. This research examines the ways that women on interpret use. From in-depth interviews with 47 women who received cash assistance in 1995, we examined the theories behind their accounts of the stigmatizing of recipients and why th…
Marital Status and Personal Happiness: An Analysis of Trend Data
This report analyzes General Social Survey data from 1972 through 1989 on the personal happiness of married and never-married individuals. Earlier studies (Glenn and Weaver, 1988) had reported a significant decrease in the difference between these two categories, with the advantage of the married progressively declining from 1972 through 1986. This article shows that the process reversed somewhat during the latter part of the 1980s, with the effe…
The Impact of Children upon Social Support Networks throughout the Life Course
Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Children: Gender Comparisons among Childfree Husbands and Wives
Playing by the Rules and Losing: Health Insurance and the Working Poor
Using a sample of 7,734 employed adults from the National Medical Expenditure Survey, this research compares the sources of health insurance coverage and the antecedents of employer-sponsored insurance among the working poor to those at higher income thresholds. Concern with the working poor is warranted because they constitute the majority of the uninsured, they do not qualify for public health programs, and their health insurance benefits have …
The Effects of Occupational Conditions upon the Division of Household Labor: An Application of Kohn's Theory
In view of the inconsistencies in the findings of tests of resource theory in predicting the division of labor within the home, this study examines another theoretical perspective, drawn from the work of Melvin Kohn. It is suggested that people who work in occupations in which they are highly supervised, who have work tasks that are simple and routinized, and who work with things by hand are likely to value obedience and conformity in the marital…
Gender and social relationships among the never-married
Employer Sponsored Medical Benefits: The Influence of Occupational Characteristics and Gender
This research investigates gender differences in employer-sponsored medical fringe benefits: health insurance, dental insurance, sick leave, life insurance, and eye care coverage. Using data from a nationally representative sample of workers in the United States, human capital and structural theoretical approaches are drawn upon to explain the receipt of these benefits. The data suggest (a) men were more likely than women to receive each medical …
Elder Care as Family Labor: The Influence of Gender and Family Position
This research indicates that gender differences in the performance of specific caregiving tasks and the amount of time spent providing care by family caregivers of frail elders should be considered in the context of family position-related norms and expectations. Using a nationally representative sample of noninstitutionalized impaired elderly people in the United States ( N = 813), the results show that husbands (when compared to wives) and daug…
Gender and Medical Insurance: A Test of Human Capital Theory
This research investigates gender differences in employer-sponsored medical insurance coverage among full-time male and female workers in the United States and assesses the relevance of human capital theory and its compensating differentials corollary in predicting coverage. Data are analyzed from a subsample of the Quality of Employment Survey, a national probability sample of workers in the United States. Results indicate that men were more lik…
The Aftermath of Welfare Reform: Health, Health Insurance, and Access to Care Among Families Leaving Tanf in Oregon
This research reports the initial findings of a statewide study that looks at health, insurance, and access to health care among families leaving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) for work. Most national and state-level evaluation projects focus primarily on the employment characteristics of TANF leavers and pay little or no attention to health and access to health care. The quantitative data are from a sample of 637 adults in Oregon …
The Changing Circumstances of Children's Lives
Health Insurance Coverage of Mexican American Families in the U.S: The Effect of Employment Context and Family Structure in Rural and Urban Settings
This article examines the impact of the employment context and family structure on the health insurance status of Mexican families. Data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey were used to (a) examine the differences in the extent of family coverage among Latino families in the U.S., (b) determine whether differences in the residential distribution of these families is responsible for these differences, and (c) assess the impact of fam…
Cross-Sex Context as a Factor in Persuasibility Sex Differences
This study explores the hypothesis that previous reports of greater female persuasibility may have been confounded by the cross-sex context of the communication situation. Utilizing live male andfemale communicators within afully randomized repeated-measures design, the data indicate moderate support for the hypothesis. Alternative interpretations of the data are explored with particular attention to the theory that status inequalities in the lar…
The Effects of Occupational Conditions upon the Division of Household Labor: An Application of Kohn's Theory
In view of the inconsistencies in the findings of tests of resource theory in predicting the division of labor within the home, this study examines another theoretical perspective, drawn from the work of Melvin Kohn. It is suggested that people who work in occupations in which they are highly supervised, who have work tasks that are simple and routinized, and who work with things by hand are likely to value obedience and conformity in the marital…
Influenceability of Sex Differences under Conditions of Risk Taking
The present study was designed to determine if risking monetary loss for conforming behavior may be a condition in which sex differences either exist or fail to occur. It was hypothesized that with increasing risk of punishment sex differences in conformity would disappear. The results did not support the hypothesis. The interaction between subject sex, punishment risk, and group pressure was nonsignificant. More specifically, the interaction bet…
The Impact of Children upon Social Support Networks throughout the Life Course
Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Children: Gender Comparisons among Childfree Husbands and Wives
Marital Status and Personal Happiness: An Analysis of Trend Data
This report analyzes General Social Survey data from 1972 through 1989 on the personal happiness of married and never-married individuals. Earlier studies (Glenn and Weaver, 1988) had reported a significant decrease in the difference between these two categories, with the advantage of the married progressively declining from 1972 through 1986. This article shows that the process reversed somewhat during the latter part of the 1980s, with the effe…
Elder Care as Family Labor: The Influence of Gender and Family Position
This research indicates that gender differences in the performance of specific caregiving tasks and the amount of time spent providing care by family caregivers of frail elders should be considered in the context of family position-related norms and expectations. Using a nationally representative sample of noninstitutionalized impaired elderly people in the United States ( N = 813), the results show that husbands (when compared to wives) and daug…
Gender and Medical Insurance: A Test of Human Capital Theory
This research investigates gender differences in employer-sponsored medical insurance coverage among full-time male and female workers in the United States and assesses the relevance of human capital theory and its compensating differentials corollary in predicting coverage. Data are analyzed from a subsample of the Quality of Employment Survey, a national probability sample of workers in the United States. Results indicate that men were more lik…
Predicting the Receipt of Employer‐Sponsored Health Insurance: The Role of Residence and Other Personal and Workplace Characteristics
Americans without health insurance constitute a significant public policy concern. Previous research has demonstrated that rural Americans are more likely to be without coverage. Beyond documenting this comparative disadvantage, however, current research has two specific deficiencies: studies have not examined whether the factors that predict the receipt of employer‐sponsored health insurance are equivalent across residence categories, and few st…
Employer Sponsored Medical Benefits: The Influence of Occupational Characteristics and Gender
This research investigates gender differences in employer-sponsored medical fringe benefits: health insurance, dental insurance, sick leave, life insurance, and eye care coverage. Using data from a nationally representative sample of workers in the United States, human capital and structural theoretical approaches are drawn upon to explain the receipt of these benefits. The data suggest (a) men were more likely than women to receive each medical …
Gender and social relationships among the never-married
Changes in Health Insurance Coverage Within Rural and Urban Environments—1977 to 1987
This study examines changes in the health insurance coverage of the nonelderly population in rural and urban areas between 1977 and 1987, using data from the National Medical Care Expenditure Survey (NMCES) and the National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES). It was designed to test the hypothesis that differences in the rates of health insurance coverage in rural and urban areas have diminished over time, and to explore the composition of changes…
Health Insurance Coverage and Use of Services Among Low‐Income Elders: Does Residence Influence the Relationship
This research uses a nationally representative sample of 1,425 low‐income elders from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) to assess the independent and interaction effects of health insurance coverage and residence on the use of seven health care services: doctor visits, visits to other personnel, telephone contact, emergency room visits, overnight hospital stays, outpatient visits, and prescription medicines. It is hypothesized t…
Older People Giving Care: Helping Family and Community
Preface Introduction Caring and Giving Care Study Design and Methodology Age and Giving Care Gender and Giving Care Gender and Informal Help to Family and Friends Gender and the Recipients of Care Gender and Giving Help Through Formal Volunteerism Marriage, Widowhood, and Giving Care Marriage and Informal Help to Family and Friends Marriage and the Recipients of Care Marriage and Giving Help Through Formal Volunteerism Conclusions The Implication…
Health Insurance Coverage of Mexican American Families in the U.S: The Effect of Employment Context and Family Structure in Rural and Urban Settings
This article examines the impact of the employment context and family structure on the health insurance status of Mexican families. Data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey were used to (a) examine the differences in the extent of family coverage among Latino families in the U.S., (b) determine whether differences in the residential distribution of these families is responsible for these differences, and (c) assess the impact of fam…
Playing by the Rules and Losing: Health Insurance and the Working Poor
Using a sample of 7,734 employed adults from the National Medical Expenditure Survey, this research compares the sources of health insurance coverage and the antecedents of employer-sponsored insurance among the working poor to those at higher income thresholds. Concern with the working poor is warranted because they constitute the majority of the uninsured, they do not qualify for public health programs, and their health insurance benefits have …
The Changing Circumstances of Children's Lives
They Think You Ain't Much of Nothing: The Social Construction of the Welfare Mother
KAREN SECCOMBE Portland State University DELORES JAMES University of Florida* KIMBERELY BATTLE WALTERS Azusa Pacific University* Welfare reform is in the forefront of the political and social agenda in the United States. This research examines the ways that women on interpret use. From in-depth interviews with 47 women who received cash assistance in 1995, we examined the theories behind their accounts of the stigmatizing of recipients and why th…
"So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?" Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System and Its Reforms
So You Think I Drive a Cadillac? Karen Seccombe
Book note for Karen Seccombe, So You Think I Drive a Cadillac? Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1999. $27.93 papercover
Don't Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America
Families in Poverty in the 1990s: Trends, Causes, Consequences, and Lessons Learned
During the 1990s, poverty rates in the United States remained relatively stable despite a robust economy in which unemployment and inflation were at their lowest points in many years. Approximately 13% of individuals, 11% of families, and 19% of children lived below the poverty line in 1998, a decline of only 1% or less for each of these categories since 1990. These high rates of poverty result in many severe consequences. This essay reviews the …
Beating the Odds" Versus "Changing the Odds: Poverty, Resilience, and Family Policy
Mixed in with national data on declining poverty rates are other signs that poverty, economic hardship, and inequality continue unabated. This essay examines: (a) the scope of poverty and the growing disparity in income and wealth; (b) the consequences of poverty of adults and children; and (c) strategies for improving their resilience. It is suggested that resiliency will be enhanced more by keen attention to national economic policies than by f…
Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform
Access to Health Care after Welfare Reform
This research uses data from a longitudinal statewide study of Oregon families leaving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) to identify: 1) the trends in insurance coverage over time; 2) the role of health insurance coverage in predicting whether respondents received needed medical care; and 3) the relationship between access to care and physical and mental health. Data were obtained from 637 families seven months after leaving welfare f…
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