Hope Corman
Biographic Data
| ID | 937355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hope Corman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hope |
| FAMILY NAME | Corman |
| SIGNATURE | CORMAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Bureau of Economic Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0213-1392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Impaired Cognitive and Behavioral Functioning in Childhood and Economic Outcomes in Adulthood
Developmental disabilities are prevalent among U.S. children, child disability rates have been increasing, and the increases have been driven by cognitive and behavioral disorders. This study estimates the effects of low cognitive test scores and high behavior problem scores in childhood on educational attainment, employment, wages, and access to transportation and credit in adulthood. We assess cognitive and behavior scores at multiple time poin…
Effects of welfare reform on maternal engagement and involvement with young adolescents
ObjectiveThis study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. on positive parenting-related outcomes and potential pathways.BackgroundThe 1996 welfare reform legislation sharply restricted eligibility for benefits with a strong emphasis on employment over cash assistance. The legislation led to dramatic declines in welfare caseloads and increases in employment. Much less is known about the effects of welfare reform on dynamics within…
Chronic health conditions and adolescents’ social connectedness
This study investigated associations between chronic developmental/behavioral and physical health conditions and social connectedness of adolescents using rich population-based data from a national U.S. birth cohort study. Potentially disabling health conditions were reported by caregivers and categorized by our team as developmental/behavioral or physical. Social connectedness was assessed using a validated scale that measured adolescents' repor…
Effects of Welfare Reform on Positive Health and Social Behaviors of Adolescents
This paper explores a missing link in the literature on welfare reform in the U.S.-the effects on positive health and social behaviors of adolescents, who represent the next generation of potential welfare recipients. Previous research on welfare reform and adolescents has focused almost exclusively on negative behaviors and found that welfare reform led to decreases in high school dropout and teenage fertility among girls, but increases in delin…
Small-for-Gestational-Age and Vocabulary and Achievement Test Scores at Age 9 Among Children Born at Term in a Contemporary U.S. Sample
Welfare Reform and the Quality of Young Children's Home Environments
This study investigates the effects of welfare reform—a major policy shift in the United States that increased low-income mothers' employment and reliance on earnings instead of cash assistance—on the quality of the home environments mothers provide for their preschool-age children. Using empirical methods designed to identify plausibly causal effects, we estimate the effects of welfare reform on validated survey and observational measures of mat…
Effects of Welfare Reform on Household Food Insecurity Across Generations
Age Gradient in Women’s Crime: The Role of Welfare Reform
We investigate how welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s shaped the age gradient in women’s property crime arrests. Using Federal Bureau of Investigation data, we investigated the age-patterning of effects of welfare reform on women’s arrests for property crime, the type of crime that welfare reform has been shown to affect. We found that welfare reform reduced women’s property crime arrests by about 4%, with particularly strong effects for wom…
Infant Health and Future Childhood Adversity
Effects of maternal depression on family food insecurity
Maternal depression as a risk factor for children's inadequate housing conditions
Lifecycle effects of a recession on health behaviors: Boom, bust, and recovery in Iceland
Maternal Depression as a Risk Factor for Family Homelessness
Objectives. We estimated the effects of maternal depression during the postpartum year, which is often an unexpected event, on subsequent homelessness and risk of homelessness in a national sample of urban, mostly low-income mothers. Methods. We used logistic regression models to estimate associations between maternal depression during the postpartum year and both homelessness and risk of homelessness 2 to 3 years later, controlling for maternal …
Effects of infant health on family food insecurity: Evidence from two U.S. birth cohort studies
Was the economic crisis of 2008 good for Icelanders? Impact on health behaviors
Life Shocks and Homelessness
We exploited an exogenous health shock—namely, the birth of a child with a severe health condition—to investigate the effect of a life shock on homelessness in large cities in the United States as well as the interactive effects of the shock with housing market characteristics. We considered a traditional measure of homelessness, two measures of housing instability thought to be precursors to homelessness, and a combined measure that approximates…
Effects of Prenatal Care on Child Health at Age 5
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Life Shocks and Crime: A Test of the “Turning Point” Hypothesis
Other researchers have posited that important events in men’s lives—such as employment, marriage, and parenthood—strengthen their social ties and lead them to refrain from crime. A challenge in empirically testing this hypothesis has been the issue of self-selection into life transitions. This study contributes to this literature by estimating the effects of an exogenous life shock on crime. We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbei…
Effects of child health on housing in the urban U.S
This study exploits an exogenous health shock-the birth of a child with a severe health condition that is considered by the medical community to be random-to investigate the effect of that shock on the family's housing situation. We use population-based data from an urban birth cohort study in the U.S. that oversampled non-marital births, resulting in a relatively disadvantaged sample that may be particularly susceptible to the effects of adverse…
The Impact of Mother’s Presence Upon Behavior: The First Year
Weekly observations of two normal children in their own homes were carried out during the period from birth to the second birthday. Narrative observations were coded and computer processed to yield ‘patterns of experience’. These summarize for a given time span in the child’s life the frequency with which he showed certain behavior and/or the frequency with which events to which he was responsive occurred in the environment. Numerous other data, …
Effects of child health on parents' social capital
Mental Illness as a Risk Factor for Uninsurance Among Mothers of Infants
New Fathers' Labor Supply: Does Child Health Matter
Objective. We estimate the effect of poor child health on the labor supply of fathers post‐welfare reform, using a national sample of mostly unwed parents and their children—a group at high risk of living in poverty. Method. We control for a rich set of covariates, include state fixed effects, and test for the endogeneity of child health by estimating bivariate probit models. Results. We find that having a young child in poor health reduces the f…
Effects of child health on parents’ relationship status
We used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to estimate the effect of a child’s poor health on the presence of the father. We investigated whether parents lived in the same household 12–18 months after the child’s birth and whether their relationships changed along a continuum (married, cohabiting, romantically involved, friends, or not involved) during the same period. We found that within this short period, having a child w…
Effects of child health on parents’ relationship status
We used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to estimate the effect of a child’s poor health on the presence of the father. We investigated whether parents lived in the same household 12–18 months after the child’s birth and whether their relationships changed along a continuum (married, cohabiting, romantically involved, friends, or not involved) during the same period. We found that within this short period, having a child w…
Life Shocks and Homelessness
We exploited an exogenous health shock—namely, the birth of a child with a severe health condition—to investigate the effect of a life shock on homelessness in large cities in the United States as well as the interactive effects of the shock with housing market characteristics. We considered a traditional measure of homelessness, two measures of housing instability thought to be precursors to homelessness, and a combined measure that approximates…
Effects of child health on housing in the urban U.S
This study exploits an exogenous health shock-the birth of a child with a severe health condition that is considered by the medical community to be random-to investigate the effect of that shock on the family's housing situation. We use population-based data from an urban birth cohort study in the U.S. that oversampled non-marital births, resulting in a relatively disadvantaged sample that may be particularly susceptible to the effects of adverse…
The effects of child health on marital status and family structure
The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence on the effect of child health on marital stability and family structure in an economic framework. We use the 1988 National Health Interview Survey’s Child Health Supplement, with a sample of about 9,000 families, to test whether having an unhealthy child decreases the mother’s chance of being married and whether it increases her chance of living in an extended family. Using two different measures o…
Maternal depression as a risk factor for children's inadequate housing conditions
New Fathers' Labor Supply: Does Child Health Matter
Objective. We estimate the effect of poor child health on the labor supply of fathers post‐welfare reform, using a national sample of mostly unwed parents and their children—a group at high risk of living in poverty. Method. We control for a rich set of covariates, include state fixed effects, and test for the endogeneity of child health by estimating bivariate probit models. Results. We find that having a young child in poor health reduces the f…
The Direct Cost of Low Birth Weight
Medical and technological advances in the care of infants with low birth weight (less than 2,500 grams, or 5 pounds, 8 ounces) and very low birth weight (less than 1,500 grams, or 3 pounds, 5 ounces) have substantially increased the survival rate for these infants and have led to concerns about the demands their care places upon their families and society. The dollar cost of the resources used disproportionately to care for low birth weight child…
Maternal Depression as a Risk Factor for Family Homelessness
Objectives. We estimated the effects of maternal depression during the postpartum year, which is often an unexpected event, on subsequent homelessness and risk of homelessness in a national sample of urban, mostly low-income mothers. Methods. We used logistic regression models to estimate associations between maternal depression during the postpartum year and both homelessness and risk of homelessness 2 to 3 years later, controlling for maternal …
Life Shocks and Crime: A Test of the “Turning Point” Hypothesis
Other researchers have posited that important events in men’s lives—such as employment, marriage, and parenthood—strengthen their social ties and lead them to refrain from crime. A challenge in empirically testing this hypothesis has been the issue of self-selection into life transitions. This study contributes to this literature by estimating the effects of an exogenous life shock on crime. We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbei…
Effects of child health on parents' social capital
Welfare Reform and the Quality of Young Children's Home Environments
This study investigates the effects of welfare reform—a major policy shift in the United States that increased low-income mothers' employment and reliance on earnings instead of cash assistance—on the quality of the home environments mothers provide for their preschool-age children. Using empirical methods designed to identify plausibly causal effects, we estimate the effects of welfare reform on validated survey and observational measures of mat…
Effects of infant health on family food insecurity: Evidence from two U.S. birth cohort studies
Crime, Deterrence and the Business Cycle in New York City: A VAR Approach
Hope Corman, Theodore Joyce, Norman Lovitch, Crime, Deterrence and the Business Cycle in New York City: A VAR Approach, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 69, No. 4 (Nov., 1987), pp. 695-700
A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Strategies to Reduce Infant Mortality
This study compares the cost effectiveness of various health inputs and government programs in reducing race-specific neonatal mortality or death in the first 27 days of life. Approximately two thirds of all infant deaths occur within this period. The programs and inputs at issue are teenage family planning use; the supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC); use of community health centers and maternal and infant care proje…
The effects of child health on marital status and family structure
The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence on the effect of child health on marital stability and family structure in an economic framework. We use the 1988 National Health Interview Survey’s Child Health Supplement, with a sample of about 9,000 families, to test whether having an unhealthy child decreases the mother’s chance of being married and whether it increases her chance of living in an extended family. Using two different measures o…
The Direct Cost of Low Birth Weight
Medical and technological advances in the care of infants with low birth weight (less than 2,500 grams, or 5 pounds, 8 ounces) and very low birth weight (less than 1,500 grams, or 3 pounds, 5 ounces) have substantially increased the survival rate for these infants and have led to concerns about the demands their care places upon their families and society. The dollar cost of the resources used disproportionately to care for low birth weight child…
A Time-Series Analysis of Crime, Deterrence, and Drug Abuse in New York City
Since Gary S. Becker's (1968) groundbreaking work on the economics of crime, economists have expanded upon both the theory and the empirical analysis of crime (e.g., Isaac Ehrlich, 1973; M. K. Block and J. M. Heineke, 1975; Ehrlich, 1975; Ann Dryden Witte, 1980). According to the standard theoretical framework, optimizing individuals engage in criminal activities depending upon the expected payoffs of the criminal activity, the return to legal la…
Effects of child health on parents’ relationship status
We used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to estimate the effect of a child’s poor health on the presence of the father. We investigated whether parents lived in the same household 12–18 months after the child’s birth and whether their relationships changed along a continuum (married, cohabiting, romantically involved, friends, or not involved) during the same period. We found that within this short period, having a child w…
New Fathers' Labor Supply: Does Child Health Matter
Objective. We estimate the effect of poor child health on the labor supply of fathers post‐welfare reform, using a national sample of mostly unwed parents and their children—a group at high risk of living in poverty. Method. We control for a rich set of covariates, include state fixed effects, and test for the endogeneity of child health by estimating bivariate probit models. Results. We find that having a young child in poor health reduces the f…
Mental Illness as a Risk Factor for Uninsurance Among Mothers of Infants
The Impact of Mother’s Presence Upon Behavior: The First Year
Weekly observations of two normal children in their own homes were carried out during the period from birth to the second birthday. Narrative observations were coded and computer processed to yield ‘patterns of experience’. These summarize for a given time span in the child’s life the frequency with which he showed certain behavior and/or the frequency with which events to which he was responsive occurred in the environment. Numerous other data, …
Effects of child health on parents' social capital
Effects of child health on housing in the urban U.S
This study exploits an exogenous health shock-the birth of a child with a severe health condition that is considered by the medical community to be random-to investigate the effect of that shock on the family's housing situation. We use population-based data from an urban birth cohort study in the U.S. that oversampled non-marital births, resulting in a relatively disadvantaged sample that may be particularly susceptible to the effects of adverse…
Volume 48 Index
Life Shocks and Crime: A Test of the “Turning Point” Hypothesis
Other researchers have posited that important events in men’s lives—such as employment, marriage, and parenthood—strengthen their social ties and lead them to refrain from crime. A challenge in empirically testing this hypothesis has been the issue of self-selection into life transitions. This study contributes to this literature by estimating the effects of an exogenous life shock on crime. We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbei…
Effects of Prenatal Care on Child Health at Age 5
Was the economic crisis of 2008 good for Icelanders? Impact on health behaviors
Life Shocks and Homelessness
We exploited an exogenous health shock—namely, the birth of a child with a severe health condition—to investigate the effect of a life shock on homelessness in large cities in the United States as well as the interactive effects of the shock with housing market characteristics. We considered a traditional measure of homelessness, two measures of housing instability thought to be precursors to homelessness, and a combined measure that approximates…
Maternal Depression as a Risk Factor for Family Homelessness
Objectives. We estimated the effects of maternal depression during the postpartum year, which is often an unexpected event, on subsequent homelessness and risk of homelessness in a national sample of urban, mostly low-income mothers. Methods. We used logistic regression models to estimate associations between maternal depression during the postpartum year and both homelessness and risk of homelessness 2 to 3 years later, controlling for maternal …
Effects of infant health on family food insecurity: Evidence from two U.S. birth cohort studies
Lifecycle effects of a recession on health behaviors: Boom, bust, and recovery in Iceland
Effects of maternal depression on family food insecurity
Maternal depression as a risk factor for children's inadequate housing conditions
Infant Health and Future Childhood Adversity
Effects of Welfare Reform on Household Food Insecurity Across Generations
Age Gradient in Women’s Crime: The Role of Welfare Reform
We investigate how welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s shaped the age gradient in women’s property crime arrests. Using Federal Bureau of Investigation data, we investigated the age-patterning of effects of welfare reform on women’s arrests for property crime, the type of crime that welfare reform has been shown to affect. We found that welfare reform reduced women’s property crime arrests by about 4%, with particularly strong effects for wom…
Effects of Welfare Reform on Positive Health and Social Behaviors of Adolescents
This paper explores a missing link in the literature on welfare reform in the U.S.-the effects on positive health and social behaviors of adolescents, who represent the next generation of potential welfare recipients. Previous research on welfare reform and adolescents has focused almost exclusively on negative behaviors and found that welfare reform led to decreases in high school dropout and teenage fertility among girls, but increases in delin…
Medicine (22 works) · Economics (19 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Environmental health (13 works) · Demography (12 works) · Population (10 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Demography (9 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works)