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1.	Carlson, Marcia Jeanne Corcoran, Mary E.
1.	Family Structure and Children's Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes Journal of Marriage and Family 63,3 (August 2001): 779-792. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2001.00779.x/abstract Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: National Council on Family Relations Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; CESD (Depression Scale); Children, Behavioral Development; Family Income; Family Structure; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Pearlin Mastery Scale We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to examine the effect of various family structures on behavioral and cognitive outcomes for children ages 7 to 10. We extend previous research by using a longitudinal definition of family structure and by exploring multiple mechanisms through which family structure may affect children in two outcome domains. We find that family income, mother's psychological functioning, and the quality of the home environment are particularly important for children's behavior, while family income and mother's aptitude have notable effects on children's cognitive test scores.
	Bibliography Citation Carlson, Marcia Jeanne and Mary E. Corcoran. "Family Structure and Children's Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes." Journal of Marriage and Family 63,3 (August 2001): 779-792.

2.	Corcoran, Mary E.
2.	Employment and Wage Consequences of Teenage Women's Nonemployment In: Youth Labor Market Problem: Its Nature, Causes, and Consequences. R. Freeman, et al., eds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1982 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Behavior; High School Completion/Graduates; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Teenagers; Unemployment; Wages; Work Attitudes; Work History The author examines how lack of employment during the teenage years affects future employment and wages. The results indicate considerable persistence in the women's employment behavior, which in part may be due to unmeasured individual differences influencing a woman's propensity to work. Evidence also suggests that early nonemployment is associated with lower future wages. For white women, wage losses associated with prolonged nonwork are greatest when it occurs at the beginning of their careers. For teenage women with less than 14 years of schooling, nonemployment is pervasive and prolonged. It is associated with a lower probability of employment in the short run and with lower wages throughout women's work careers. Thus, early employment behavior has lasting implications for women's future economic career.
	Bibliography Citation Corcoran, Mary E. "Employment and Wage Consequences of Teenage Women's Nonemployment" In: Youth Labor Market Problem: Its Nature, Causes, and Consequences. R. Freeman, et al., eds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1982

3.	Corcoran, Mary E. Loeb, Susanna
3.	Will Wages Grow with Experience for Welfare Mothers? Focus 20,2 (Spring 1999): 20-21. Also: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/focus.htm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin - Madison Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); GED/General Educational Diploma/General Equivalency Degree/General Educational Development; High School Diploma; Mothers; Part-Time Work; Skilled Workers; Wage Growth; Welfare; Work Experience Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. It appears that wages grow little for welfare recipients over time, especially for those whose skills and circumstances place them among the most disadvantaged. But welfare recipients work far fewer years than do nonrecipients, and it is not clear whether their low rates of wage growth with age are due to more meager work experience or to lower returns to that experience. Will more time working, as the new welfare regimes require, bring better jobs and higher wages? Research on work experience and women's wages consistently finds that wages grow with work experience, that prolonged periods of joblessness lower women's wages, and that wage growth is lower when work experience is part time. Welfare mothers not only have less work experience than other women, but often work part time. These factors in themselves could lead to lower wage growth over time even if returns to experience are the same for recipients and nonrecipients.
	Bibliography Citation Corcoran, Mary E. and Susanna Loeb. "Will Wages Grow with Experience for Welfare Mothers?" Focus 20,2 (Spring 1999): 20-21.

4.	Loeb, Susanna Corcoran, Mary E.
4.	Welfare, Work Experience, and Economic Self-Sufficiency Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 20,1 (Winter 2001): 1-20. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1520-6688%28200124%2920:1%3C1::AID-PAM1001%3E3.0.CO;2-I/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Wage Growth; Wages; Wages, Women; Welfare; Work Experience Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The potential of former AFDC recipients to earn a living wage is central to the success of welfare-to-work programs. Previous studies have found that welfare recipients see little increase in their wages over time. Low wage growth could arise from either low returns to work experience or low levels of experience. This distinction is important for designing effective welfare policy. In the following paper, we estimate how wages grew with work experience between 1978 and 1992 for a national sample of women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We compare women who never received welfare with both short- and long-term recipients in order to see to what extent the rates of wage growth with work experience differ. We find that they differ very little. We use numerous specification checks to test the robustness of our results and find consistent evidence that the wages of AFDC recipients grew at a rate similar to those of nonrecipients once work experience is taken into account. Copyright: 2001 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
	Bibliography Citation Loeb, Susanna and Mary E. Corcoran. "Welfare, Work Experience, and Economic Self-Sufficiency." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 20,1 (Winter 2001): 1-20.

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