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Author: Lopoo, Leonard M.
Resulting in 8 citations.
1. Groves, Lincoln
Lopoo, Leonard M.
Federal Financial Aid and Family Formation: Examining the Social Security Student Benefit Program
Journal of Family and Economic Issues 39,3 (September 2018): 436-444.
Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10834-018-9568-5
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Age at First Marriage; Benefits, Disability; Family Formation; Financial Assistance; Program Participation/Evaluation; Social Security

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

A broad empirical literature asks if social policies designed to provide benefits to low-income families also affect family formation patterns. While most of the evidence suggests that family formation effects are small at best, and often nonexistent, recent research argues that policies that alter budget constraints considerably should have greater family formation impacts. We tested this hypothesis by investigating the Social Security Student Benefit Program (SSSBP), a program designed to provide large higher education subsidies for the children of disabled, retired, or deceased parents. Conditions for receipt of SSSBP created strong incentives to delay marriage. Utilizing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979, and a difference-in-differences model, we found that women potentially qualifying for the SSSBP were much less likely to marry before age 22 and were older when they had children, while the program did not influence the probability of women ever marrying or having children. Impacts on men, however, were negligible.
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Groves, Lincoln and Leonard M. Lopoo. "Federal Financial Aid and Family Formation: Examining the Social Security Student Benefit Program." Journal of Family and Economic Issues 39,3 (September 2018): 436-444.
2. Groves, Lincoln
Lopoo, Leonard M.
Federal Financial Aid, Educational Attainment, and Family Formation: Re-Examining the Social Security Student Benefit Program
Presented: Miami FL, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 12-14, 2015
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)
Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Family Formation; Financial Assistance; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Program Participation/Evaluation

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Using the NLSY79 and a difference-in-differences model, our preliminary results show that the SSSB [Social Security Student Benefit] program had no overall effect on the educational attainment of recipients. However, these initial results do not consider the distributional effects of the program. Additional analyses show that the elimination of the program for individuals aged 18 to 22 created large reductions in the likelihood of Associate's degree receipt. In contrast, the benefits had small and statistically insignificant effects on earning a Bachelor's degree. We test the robustness of our result using similar cohorts from the PSID, and our results are consistent with those found in the NLSY79.
Bibliography Citation
Groves, Lincoln and Leonard M. Lopoo. "Federal Financial Aid, Educational Attainment, and Family Formation: Re-Examining the Social Security Student Benefit Program." Presented: Miami FL, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 12-14, 2015.
3. Lopoo, Leonard M.
Maternal Employment and Adolescent Self-Care
Presented: Boston, MA, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2004
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Child Care; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Family Income; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

The author uses the National Educational Longitudinal Survey of 1988 supplemented by the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979 to estimate the relationship between maternal employment and the likelihood of adolescent self-care. Unlike prior research, the author employs a variety of fixed effects models to account for omitted variables that may be related to maternal employment and adolescent self-care. Findings suggest that the adolescents of mothers who work full-time spend an additional 43 minutes per week in self-care compared to mothers who work part-time. Further, a standard deviation increase in the number of weeks a mother works during the year increases the probability that her child will be unsupervised by 31 percent. These effects are not constant across socio-economic groups: affluent families have strong effects, while the relationship is more tenuous among low-income families. This finding has important implications for pro-work social welfare policies in the U.S.
Bibliography Citation
Lopoo, Leonard M. "Maternal Employment and Adolescent Self-Care." Presented: Boston, MA, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2004.
4. Lopoo, Leonard M.
Maternal Employment and Adolescent Self-Care
Presented: Atlanta, GA, APPAM Annual Research Conference, October 2004
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Child Care; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS)

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Mounting evidence shows that self-care produces deleterious consequences for adolescents in the U.S. Since descriptive evidence suggests that maternal employment is the primary explanation for adolescent self-care, maternal employment, it is frequently argued, is harming children. Heretofore, very little empirical research has actually investigated the impact of maternal employment on adolescent self-care, however, calling into question this assertion. This paper aims to fill this gap. The author uses the National Education Longitudinal Survey of 1988 supplemented by the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979 to estimate the relationship between maternal employment and adolescent self-care. Unlike prior research, the author employs a variety of fixed effects models to account for omitted variables that may be related to maternal employment and adolescent self-care. Findings suggest that the adolescents of mothers who work full-time spend an additional 43 minutes per week in self-care compared to the adolescents of mothers who work part-time. Further, a standard deviation increase in the number of weeks a mother works during the year increases the probability that her child will be unsupervised by 27 percent. These effects are not constant across socio-economic groups: affluent families have strong effects, while the relationship is more tenuous among low-income families. This finding has important implications for pro-work social welfare policies in the U.S.
Bibliography Citation
Lopoo, Leonard M. "Maternal Employment and Adolescent Self-Care." Presented: Atlanta, GA, APPAM Annual Research Conference, October 2004.
5. Lopoo, Leonard M.
Maternal Employment and Latchkey Adolescents
Working Paper, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, June 2004.
Also: http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/faculty/lopoo/selectedpapers/policy1.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University
Keyword(s): Child Care; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parent Supervision/Monitoring; Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP); Variables, Independent - Covariate

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Social scientists who have estimated the relationship between a mother's work hours and the probability that her children self-care are often limited by cross-sectional data with a limited number of covariates. This study uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and fixed effects and difference-in-differences models to ask if maternal work hours are related to the probability of adolescent self-care. Results demonstrate that previous research may have over-estimated the magnitude of the relationship. Further, findings show that only mothers who work more than 30 hours per week are more likely to allow their adolescents to self-care. This study also examines the relationship between maternal employment and adolescent self-care among a sub-sample of low-income women, a group that has been the target of pro-work social welfare programs in the United States. Results from this sub-sample also suggest that it is only after 30 hours of maternal work in a week that the probability of self-care increases appreciably. The policy implications of these results are discussed.
Bibliography Citation
Lopoo, Leonard M. "Maternal Employment and Latchkey Adolescents." Working Paper, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, June 2004.
6. Lopoo, Leonard M.
Maternal Employment and Latchkey Adolescents
Social Service Review 79,4 (December 2005): 602-623.
Also: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/SSR/journal/issues/v79n4/790402/790402.html
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Child Care; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parent Supervision/Monitoring; Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)

Social scientists who have estimated the relationship between a mother's work hours and the probability that her children care for themselves are often limited by cross-sectional data and use of a small number of control variables. This study uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and a fixed effects logit model to ask if maternal work hours are related to the probability that adolescents spend some time at home alone after school. Results demonstrate that the relationship exists and is nonlinear: only the adolescents of mothers who work more than 30 hours per week are more likely to spend time after school with no adult present, compared with the adolescent children of mothers who are not working. This finding suggests that if social welfare policies encourage low-income mothers to work full-time, these policies may increase the probability that their adolescent children spend some time at home alone after school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Lopoo, Leonard M. "Maternal Employment and Latchkey Adolescents ." Social Service Review 79,4 (December 2005): 602-623.
7. Lopoo, Leonard M.
Western, Bruce
Incarceration and the Formation and Stability of Marital Unions
Journal of Marriage and Family 67,3 (August 2005): 721-734.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2005.00165.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Council on Family Relations
Keyword(s): Black Studies; Divorce; Educational Attainment; Event History; Incarceration/Jail; Marriage; Racial Differences; Racial Studies

Rising imprisonment rates and declining marriage rates among low-education African Americans motivate an analysis of the effects of incarceration on marriage. An event history analysis of 2,041 unmarried men from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 suggests that men are unlikely to marry in the years they serve in prison. A separate analysis of 2,762 married men shows that incarceration during marriage significantly increases the risk of divorce or separation. We simulate aggregate marriage rates using estimates from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and find that the prevalence of marriage would change little if incarceration rates were reduced.
Bibliography Citation
Lopoo, Leonard M. and Bruce Western. "Incarceration and the Formation and Stability of Marital Unions." Journal of Marriage and Family 67,3 (August 2005): 721-734.
8. Western, Bruce
Lopoo, Leonard M.
Pettit, Becky
Punishment and Inequality in America
New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Keyword(s): Incarceration/Jail; Minorities; Minority Groups; Punishment, Criminal; Racial Equality/Inequality

The recent explosion of imprisonment is exacting heavy costs on American society and exacerbating inequality. Whereas college or the military were once the formative institutions in young menʼs lives, prison has increasingly usurped that role in many communities. Punishment and Inequality in America profiles how the growth in incarceration came about and the toll it is taking on the social and economic fabric of many American communities.

See in particular Chapter 6: Incarceration, Marriage, and Family Life"

See review of monograph: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/western1006.htm

Bibliography Citation
Western, Bruce, Leonard M. Lopoo and Becky Pettit. Punishment and Inequality in America. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.