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Author: Shanahan, Michael J.
Resulting in 8 citations.
1. Davey, Adam
Shanahan, Michael J.
Schafer, Joseph L.
Correcting for Selective Nonresponse in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Using Multiple Imputation
Journal of Human Resources 36,3 (Summer 2001): 500-519.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3069628
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keyword(s): Attrition; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Data Analysis; Data Quality/Consistency; Longitudinal Surveys; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Nonresponse; Poverty; Psychological Effects

Survey attrition and nonresponse, particularly when selective, present unique challenges to researchers interested in studying developmental processes and longitudinal change. Four distinct patterns of nonresponse on children's psychosocial adjustment and lifetime poverty experiences and family histories are identified using principal components analysis. In turn, membership in these four groups is significantly predicted by the child's demographic characteristics, family experiences, and previous values on adjustment variables, indicating selective nonresponse and raising the possibility of biased estimates based on listwise deletion of missing data. We then examine a set of latent growth curve models that interrelate children?s family experiences and psychosocial adjustment using listwise deletion (LD) and multiple imputation (MI) procedures. Implications for treatment of nonresponse in national longitudinal surveys are discussed.
Bibliography Citation
Davey, Adam, Michael J. Shanahan and Joseph L. Schafer. "Correcting for Selective Nonresponse in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Using Multiple Imputation." Journal of Human Resources 36,3 (Summer 2001): 500-519.
2. Davey, Adam
Shanahan, Michael J.
Schafer, Joseph L.
Corrections for Missingness in the NLSY: Longitudinal Patterns in the Mother-Child Files
Presented: Ann Arbor, MI, Health and Retirement Study, Institute for Social Research, Conference on Data Quality Issues in Longitudinal Surveys, 1998
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan
Keyword(s): Attrition; Data Analysis; Data Quality/Consistency; Longitudinal Surveys; Modeling; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Nonresponse; Poverty; Psychological Effects

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NOTE - See J. of Human Resources 2001 for published version.
Survey attrition and nonresponse, particularly when selective, present unique challenges to researchers interested in studying developmental processes and longitudinal change. Four distinct patterns of nonresponse on children?s psychosocial adjustment and lifetime poverty experiences and family histories are identified using principal components analysis. In turn, membership in these four groups is significantly predicted by the child's demographic characteristics, family experiences, and previous values on adjustment variables, indicating selective nonresponse and raising the possibility of biased estimates based on listwise deletion of missing data. We then examine a set of latent growth curve models that interrelate children's family experiences and psychosocial adjustment using listwise deletion (LD) and multiple imputation (MI) procedures. Implications for treatment of nonresponse in national longitudinal surveys are discussed
Bibliography Citation
Davey, Adam, Michael J. Shanahan and Joseph L. Schafer. "Corrections for Missingness in the NLSY: Longitudinal Patterns in the Mother-Child Files." Presented: Ann Arbor, MI, Health and Retirement Study, Institute for Social Research, Conference on Data Quality Issues in Longitudinal Surveys, 1998.
3. Lichter, Daniel T.
Shanahan, Michael J.
Gardner, Erica L.
Becoming a Good Citizen? The Long-Term Consequences of Poverty and Family Instability During Childhood
Working Paper, Russell Sage Foundation, December 1999.
Also: http://www.russellsage.org/publications/working_papers/lichter-citizen.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Keyword(s): Behavior, Prosocial; Family Structure; Modeling, Mixed Effects; Poverty; Volunteer Work

This paper was also presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 1999. Our main objective is to evaluate whether a disadvantaged childhood inevitably leads to a politically disaffected and socially disengaged late adolescence. We examine the relationship between social and economic disadvantages during early childhood and "good citizenship" during late adolescence. Measures of formal activities are now available from the 1996 young adult supplements of the National Longitudunal Survey of Youth (NLSY); these data are linked to mother and family records from the 1979-96 main NLSY sample to create life-history records spanning childhood and adolescence. Children -- especially males -- from single parent families are less likely than children growing up in married couple households to be involved in volunteer work. Volunteer behavior is more strongly related to time spent in poverty among females than males. More generally, our results provide support for a mediational model, one in which long-term negative effects of childhood social and economic disadvantages on later pro-social behavior occur indirectly through effects on socioemotional development and life experiences during adolescence (e.g., attendance at religious services and school success). These results address current concerns about putative declines in a civil society in America and about the elevation of individualism over communalism among today's young people. (Copyright Russell Sage Foundation.)
Bibliography Citation
Lichter, Daniel T., Michael J. Shanahan and Erica L. Gardner. "Becoming a Good Citizen? The Long-Term Consequences of Poverty and Family Instability During Childhood." Working Paper, Russell Sage Foundation, December 1999.
4. Lichter, Daniel T.
Shanahan, Michael J.
Gardner, Erica L.
Helping Others? The Effects of Childhood Poverty and Family Instability on Prosocial Behavior
Youth and Society 34,1 (September 2002): 89-119.
Also: http://yas.sagepub.com/content/34/1/89.abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Behavior, Prosocial; Family Structure; Modeling, Mixed Effects; Volunteer Work

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

This article examines the relationship between poverty and family instability during childhood on prosocial behavior--volunteerism--during late adolescence. The 1996 Young Adult supplements of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) are linked to mother and family records from the 1979-1996 main NLSY sample to create life history records spanning childhood and adolescence. Adolescents--especially males--from single-parent families are less likely than those growing up in married-couple households to be involved with volunteer work. Volunteerism is more strongly related to time spent in poverty among females than males. The results support a mediational model, in which negative effects of childhood social and ecnomic disadvantages on later prosocial behavior occur indirectly through effects on socioemotional development and life experiences during adolescence. The results inform current concerns about putative declines in a civil society and the elevation of individualism over communalism among today's young people.
Bibliography Citation
Lichter, Daniel T., Michael J. Shanahan and Erica L. Gardner. "Helping Others? The Effects of Childhood Poverty and Family Instability on Prosocial Behavior." Youth and Society 34,1 (September 2002): 89-119.
5. McLeod, Jane D.
Shanahan, Michael J.
Poverty, Parenting, and Children's Mental Health
American Sociological Review 58,3 (June 1993): 351-366.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2095905
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Behavior; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Temperament; Health Factors; Health, Mental/Psychological; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Parenthood; Poverty; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Status (SES)

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Using data from the 1986 Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set, explores the relationships among current poverty, length of time in poverty, maternal parenting behavior, and children's mental health for 1,733 children of 1,344 mothers. Studies of children's poverty need to focus on family processes. (SLD)
Bibliography Citation
McLeod, Jane D. and Michael J. Shanahan. "Poverty, Parenting, and Children's Mental Health." American Sociological Review 58,3 (June 1993): 351-366.
6. McLeod, Jane D.
Shanahan, Michael J.
Trajectories of Poverty and Children's Mental Health
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 37,3 (September 1996): 207-220.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2137292
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Health; Family History; Health, Mental/Psychological; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Poverty

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The relationship between family poverty history & children's mental health trajectories was examined through analysis of data from 907 children from the 1986-1990 National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth. Analysis revealed that poverty histories in 1986 or prior were related to higher levels of depression in 1986 & that higher levels of depression persisted for a five-year period. Poverty histories subsequent to 1986 were not associated with depression trajectories. The number of years that children were poor between 1986 & 1990 correlated significantly with changes in children's antisocial behavior during those years. Children who were poor in each of these years had higher increases in antisocial behavior than transiently poor or nonpoor children. The accelerating behavioral disadvantages of persistent childhood poverty are discussed. 5 Tables, 2 Appendixes, 51 References. Adapted from the source document. (Copyright 1997, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
Bibliography Citation
McLeod, Jane D. and Michael J. Shanahan. "Trajectories of Poverty and Children's Mental Health." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 37,3 (September 1996): 207-220.
7. Shanahan, Michael J.
Davey, Adam
Brooks, Jennifer
Dynamic Models of Poverty and Psychosocial Adjustment through Childhood
JCPR Working Paper 49, Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University/University of Chicago, October 1998.
Also: http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/jcpr/workingpapers/wpfiles/shanahan.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Joint Center for Poverty Research
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Poverty; Children, Well-Being; Depression (see also CESD); Economic Well-Being; Family Influences; Growth Curves; Hispanics; Life Course; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Poverty; Welfare

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This paper was also presented in 1997 at the Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto.

Children exhibit significant variability in their poverty experiences and well-being through time, longitudinal realities that complicate the study of economic deprivation and adjustment in the early life course. Drawing on thirteen years of data from the Children of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set, we examine how children's poverty histories predict latent growth curves of their psychosocial adjustment using multiply imputed data sets. The duration of poverty between birth and 1986 predicts the level of antisocial behavior and anxiety-depression in 1986, while the proportion of time spent in poverty between 1986 and 1992 predicts the rate increase in antisocial behavior between 1986 and 1992. Controlling the duration of poverty, we find that transitions into poverty between birth and 1986 predict the rate of increase in anxiety- depression between 1986 and 1992 among boys. Hispanic boys seem especially vulnerable to early poverty experiences: transitions into poverty between birth and 1986 raise their 1986 level of antisocial behavior, while the duration of poverty between birth and 1986 sharpens their rate of increase in anxiety-depression between 1986 and 1992. These findings underscore the value of a life-history approach to children's family experiences and well-being.

Bibliography Citation
Shanahan, Michael J., Adam Davey and Jennifer Brooks. "Dynamic Models of Poverty and Psychosocial Adjustment through Childhood." JCPR Working Paper 49, Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University/University of Chicago, October 1998.
8. Steyer, Rolf
Partchev, Ivailo
Shanahan, Michael J.
Modeling True Intradindividual Change in Structural Equation Models: The Case of Poverty and Children's Psychosocial Adjustment
In: Modeling Longitudinal and Multilevel Data: Practical Issues, Applied Approaches, and Specific Examples. T.D. Little, K.U. Schnabel, and J.Baumert, eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2000: pp. 109-126.
Also: http://www.assess.com/Books/b-30545.htm
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ==> Taylor & Francis
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Change Scores; Children, Adjustment Problems; Endogeneity; Methods/Methodology; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Poverty; Statistical Analysis; Statistics

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Bibliography Citation
Steyer, Rolf, Ivailo Partchev and Michael J. Shanahan. "Modeling True Intradindividual Change in Structural Equation Models: The Case of Poverty and Children's Psychosocial Adjustment" In: Modeling Longitudinal and Multilevel Data: Practical Issues, Applied Approaches, and Specific Examples. T.D. Little, K.U. Schnabel, and J.Baumert, eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2000: pp. 109-126.