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Author: Cook, Steven T.
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1. Cook, Steven T.
Delgado, Enilda Arbona
Coping With a Pre-Maritally Conceived Birth
Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Birth Outcomes; Childbearing, Adolescent; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; College Enrollment; Family Structure; Financial Assistance; High School Completion/Graduates; Marital Status; Welfare

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Births that occur to young women, especially those which are conceived before first marriage, will likely result in difficult decisions about where and with whom she should live, and how she should support herself and her child. These decisions will likely be influenced by personal characteristics of the young mother and her living arrangements before the conception. We use data from the 1979-1992 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to examine the distributions of living arrangements and financial support arrangement of young women after a premaritally conceived birth. We also model the effects of pre-conception characteristics on post-birth outcomes using multinomial logistic regressions. Our findings show that minority status, and coming from a non-intact family tend to reduce the likelihood of marriage after a premarital conception, and reduce the private financial resources available to the new mother. High school graduation and college attendance, on the othe r hand, increase the likelihood of staying off welfare.
Bibliography Citation
Cook, Steven T. and Enilda Arbona Delgado. "Coping With a Pre-Maritally Conceived Birth." Presented: Chicago, IL, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1998.
2. Cook, Steven T.
Delgado, Enilda Arbona
Sandefur, Gary D.
Coping with a Premaritally-Conceived Birth
CDE Working Paper No. 98-18, Center for Demography and Ecology, 1998.
Also: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu:80/cde/cdewp/98-18ab.htm
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Center for Demography and Ecology
Keyword(s): Childbearing; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Cohabitation; Economic Well-Being; Fertility; Marital Stability; Mothers, Education; Mothers, Race; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Residence

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Births that are conceived before a first marriage result in difficult decisions about where and with whom the mother should live, and how she should support herself and her child. These decisions are influenced by personal characteristics of the young mother and by her living arrangements and activities before the conception. We use data from the 1979-1992 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to examine the distributions of living arrangements and the economic wellbeing of young women after a birth that results from a premarital pregnancy. Our findings show that approximately 37 percent of the young women who have such births live with their husbands in the year following the birth, while 1/3 live with their parents, 12 percent cohabit, and 18 percent are on their own and unmarried. Race, education, living arrangements prior to conception, and other characteristics of the mothers are associated with living arrangements and economic wellbeing after the birth has occurred. Available on-line only.
Bibliography Citation
Cook, Steven T., Enilda Arbona Delgado and Gary D. Sandefur. "Coping with a Premaritally-Conceived Birth." CDE Working Paper No. 98-18, Center for Demography and Ecology, 1998.
3. Garasky, Steven
Peters, H. Elizabeth
Argys, Laura M.
Cook, Steven T.
Nepomnyaschy, Lenna
Sorensen, Elaine
Waller, Maureen
Nonresident Parenting: Measuring Support Provided to Children by Nonresident Fathers
Presented: Bethesda, MD, Measurement Issues in Family Demography Workshop, November 2003.
Also: http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/mifd/papers/argys.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: Maryland Population Research Center
Keyword(s): Child Support; Fathers and Children; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Involvement

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Gathering data from parents living separately presents many unique challenges. For example, often it is difficult to locate both parents and when they are interviewed, they tend to provide different accounts of the nonresident parent?s involvement with the same child. Further, family and household configurations are complicated by the addition of new relationships (e.g. step-relationships) that evolve over time and the dynamic nature of the residential patterns of children who often reside with different parents at different times of the year or at different times in their childhood.

Within this challenging context the authors of this paper examine the support provided by nonresident parents (specifically fathers due to data limitations) to their children who live elsewhere. Specifically, we focus on how questions related to support provision are asked and what results are found. We examine eight separate data sets: six survey-based data sets, one a compilation of data from court records, and an extract of data from administrative records of a state public assistance program. The overriding objective of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of current data gathering approaches in this area. Our goal is to provide insights into ways we can improve our surveys in this important area of family demography.

Bibliography Citation
Garasky, Steven, H. Elizabeth Peters, Laura M. Argys, Steven T. Cook, Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Elaine Sorensen and Maureen Waller. "Nonresident Parenting: Measuring Support Provided to Children by Nonresident Fathers." Presented: Bethesda, MD, Measurement Issues in Family Demography Workshop, November 2003.
4. Sandefur, Gary D.
Cook, Steven T.
Duration of Public Assistance Receipt: Is Welfare a Trap?
Discussion Paper No. 1129-97, Institute for Research on Poverty, April 1997.
Also: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/dpabs97.htm#DP1129-97
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin - Madison
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Family Characteristics; High School Diploma; Marital Status; Welfare; Work Experience

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This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to answer two questions about the effects of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program: (1) Does the length of time that one receives AFDC affect the likelihood of permanently leaving AFDC? (2) What personal and family characteristics are associated with the long-term receipt of AFDC? The answer to the first question is that the likelihood of permanently leaving AFDC decreases with the length of time that individuals receive benefits, after adjustments for other measured and unmeasured attributes of individuals and their families. The answer to the second question is that not having a high school diploma, never having married, having more than two children, and having little work experience are associated with long-term receipt. Many of the recipients who will reach the five-year limit imposed by the new federal legislation are in situations that make it difficult for them to support themselves and their families without public assistance. Abstract online.
Bibliography Citation
Sandefur, Gary D. and Steven T. Cook. "Duration of Public Assistance Receipt: Is Welfare a Trap?" Discussion Paper No. 1129-97, Institute for Research on Poverty, April 1997.
5. Sandefur, Gary D.
Cook, Steven T.
Permanent Exits from Public Assistance: The Impact of Duration, Family, and Work
Social Forces 77,2 (December 1998): 763-786.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3005546
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Childbearing; Exits; Marital Status; Welfare; Women's Studies

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This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to answer two questions raised in the recent debate over welfare reform: (1) Is the length of time that a woman receives Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) associated with the likelihood of permanently leaving AFDC? (2) Are marital status, childbearing and qualifications for work associated with permanently leaving AFDC? We define a permanent exit as leaving the AFDC rolls and not returning within two years. The answer to the first question is that the likelihood of permanently leaving AFDC decreases with the length of time that women receive benefits after adjusting for other attributes of individuals and their families. This finding is robust across several, but not all, specifications of the model of permanent exits. The answer to the second question is that marital status, the number of children, and qualifications for work, as well as the availability of employment, are associated with the likelihood of leaving AFDC permanently. The effects of these characteristics are robust across all of the different specifications used in the analysis. Copyright: The University of North Carolina Press.
Bibliography Citation
Sandefur, Gary D. and Steven T. Cook. "Permanent Exits from Public Assistance: The Impact of Duration, Family, and Work." Social Forces 77,2 (December 1998): 763-786.
6. Sandefur, Gary D.
Cook, Steven T.
Poverty and Welfare Duration Among Young Adults
Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Education Indicators; Family Circumstances, Changes in; Fathers; Heterogeneity; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Poverty; Racial Differences; Welfare

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This paper examines the poverty and welfare careers of young people during the period from late adolescence to young adulthood. During this period individuals are especially vulnerable to experiencing periods of poverty and to using public assistance programs. We describe differences in patterns of poverty and public assistance receipt for different racial and ethnic groups and for different social classes (as defined by parental education and fathers occupation. The study employs monthly data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to model welfare use for these age groups which are particularly vulnerable to becoming poor and/or using public assistance and to examine the appropriateness of different hazard models to describe the probability of exiting welfare programs. In addition parameters are included to capture the effects of unobserved heterogeneity on this probability.
Bibliography Citation
Sandefur, Gary D. and Steven T. Cook. "Poverty and Welfare Duration Among Young Adults." Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994.