Impacts on Children of a Policy to Promote Employment and Reduce Poverty for Low-Income Parents: New Hope After 5 Years.

Huston, Aletha C.; Duncan, Greg J.; McLoyd, Vonnie C.; Crosby, Danielle A.; Ripke, Marika N.; Weisner, Thomas S.; Eldred, Carolyn A.

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“…Violence prevention initiatives have attempted to improve environmental structure and support through family (Metropolitan Area Child Study Research Group, 2002;, community (Briggs, 1997;Huston et al, 2005;Kling, Liebman, & Katz, 2005), and school based approaches (Farrell, Meyer, & White, 2001;Mytton, Diguiseppi, Gough, Taylor, & Logan, 2006). Findings from the present study suggest that interventions targeting the enhancement of children's and adolescents' coping skills may be an effective and practical way of reducing the impact of community violence exposure on adolescent violent behavior.…”

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confidence: 75%

Adaptive Coping Reduces the Impact of Community Violence Exposure on Violent Behavior among African American and Latino Male Adolescents

Brady

Gorman‐Smith

Henry

et al. 2007

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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This study examined whether coping moderated the impact of community violence exposure (CVE) on violent behavior among 285 urban African American and Latino adolescent males assessed annually across five years. Composites indicating overall CVE (having knowledge of others' victimization, witnessing violence, direct victimization) and approach to coping with CVE were created by averaging across years 1-3 (Time 1; mean ages 14-16). Adolescents classified as coping effectively tended to respond to CVE in beneficial ways (e.g., developing long-term solutions, engaging in positive reappraisal). Violent behavior was examined across years 1-3 (Time 1) and years 4-5 (Time 2; mean ages 18-19). CVE was longitudinally associated with greater violent behavior, adjusting for Time 1 levels of violent behavior. This association was significant only among adolescents with less effective coping strategies. Interventions targeting the enhancement of coping skills may be an effective method of reducing the impact of CVE on adolescent violent behavior.

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confidence: 75%

Adaptive Coping Reduces the Impact of Community Violence Exposure on Violent Behavior among African American and Latino Male Adolescents

Brady

Gorman‐Smith

Henry

et al. 2007

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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“…Extant scholarship suggests that parents' experiences in employment, such as the stimulation and supportiveness of the work environment , the stability of work schedules (Han, 2005;Presser, 2003), or the strain resulting from balancing work and family roles (Morris & Coley, 2004) may influence parenting practices and the home environment. Related research also notes that parents' use of additional services, such as child care and afterschool programs, may serve as an important conduit through which welfare reform and maternal employment experiences influence children (Gennetian et al, 2004;Huston et al, 2005). Finally, psychological models of family stress (Conger et al, 1992;McLoyd, 1998) suggest that the link between economic resources and children's development is mediated through complex systems of interrelated family processes.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Data from the experimental assessments have found no consistent effects of welfare reform programs on aspects of parenting including warmth, harshness, and cognitive stimulation (see Huston et al, 2005;Morris, Huston, Duncan, Crosby, & Bos, 2001). Data from the WES indicate that movements into employment while retaining welfare benefits predicted improvements in the quality of parenting (Dunifon, Kalil, & Danziger, 2003; see also Brooks-Gunn, Klebanov, Smith, & Lee, 2001;Smith, Brooks-Gunn, Kohen, & McCarton, 2001;Raver, 2003).…”

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Maternal functioning, time, and money: The world of work and welfare

Coley

Lohman

Votruba‐Drzal

et al. 2007

Children and Youth Services Review

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Numerous studies have assessed families' employment and financial stability following welfare reform. Yet little research has addressed whether welfare and work transitions are linked with other changes in family functioning. Using a representative sample of approximately 2,000 low-income urban families from the Three-City Study, analyses assessed whether mothers' welfare and employment experiences over a two-year period following welfare reform were related to changes in family well-being. Lagged regression models controlling for family characteristics and earlier levels of functioning found that moving into employment and stable employment (of 30 hours or more per week) were linked to substantial increases in income and improvements in mothers' psychological well-being. Movements into employment also were associated with declines in financial strain and food insecurity. Sustained or initiated welfare receipt was related to relative declines in income, physical health, and psychological well-being, but also to improved access to medical care. In contrast, mothers' welfare and work experiences showed very limited relations to changes in the quality of parenting or of children's home environments. These patterns were similar for families with young children and those with adolescent children. Results suggest that parenting behaviors are more resistant to change than are maternal emotional and economic functioning.Vociferous welfare reform debates in the 1990s reflected arguments concerning how moving low-income mothers out of welfare dependency and into stable employment would affect women's well-being and the family environments provided to children. Some viewpoints held that leaving dependency and moving into self-sufficiency would help boost the financial resources of families and enhance economic security. Moreover, the experiences of employment-becoming economically self-sufficient, gaining new skills and social connections, and creating a new work identity-would improve low-income women's selfCorresponding author: Rebekah Levine Coley, Associate Professor, Lynch School of Education, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, coleyre@bc.edu, Phone: 617-552-6018. Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptChild Youth Serv Rev. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2007 August 14. Published in final edited form as:Child Youth Serv Rev. 2007 June ; 29(6): 721-741. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript esteem and psychological well-being. Finally, it was hoped that the...

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“…In response to these concerns, scholars have employed several approaches, including randomized or quasi-randomized experiments and instrumental variables (Duncan et al 2007;Huston et al 2005;McKenzie et al 2010). A number of studies have used an instrumental variable (IV) that predicts the treatment variable but not the outcome variable, thereby mimicking random assignment (Antman 2008;McKenzie and Hildebrandt 2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Effects of Children’s Migration on Elderly Kin’s Health: A Counterfactual Approach

2011

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Recent studies of migration and the left-behind have found that elders with migrant children actually experience better health outcomes than those with no migrant children, yet these studies raise many concerns about self-selection. Using three rounds of panel survey data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey, we employ the counterfactual framework developed by Rosenbaum and Rubin to examine the relationship between having a migrant child and the health of elders aged 50 and older, as measured by activities of daily living (ADL), self-rated health (SRH), and mortality. As in earlier studies, we find a positive association between old-age health and children's migration, an effect that is partly explained by an individual's propensity to have migrant children. Positive impacts of migration are much greater among elders with a high propensity to have migrant children than among those with low propensity. We note that migration is one of the single greatest sources of health disparity among the elders in our study population, and point to the need for research and policy aimed at broadening the benefits of migration to better improve health systems rather than individual health.

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Impacts on Children of a Policy to Promote Employment and Reduce Poverty for Low-Income Parents: New Hope After 5 Years.

Cited by 94 publications

References 45 publications

Adaptive Coping Reduces the Impact of Community Violence Exposure on Violent Behavior among African American and Latino Male Adolescents

Adaptive Coping Reduces the Impact of Community Violence Exposure on Violent Behavior among African American and Latino Male Adolescents

Maternal functioning, time, and money: The world of work and welfare

The Effects of Children’s Migration on Elderly Kin’s Health: A Counterfactual Approach

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