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1.	Carlson, Marcia Jeanne
1.	Do Fathers Really Matter?: Father Involvement and Social-Psychological Outcomes for Adolescents Working Paper #99-04, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University, November 1999 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Office of Population Research, Princeton University Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); CESD (Depression Scale); Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Well-Being; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Deviance; Family Structure; Fatherhood; Fathers and Children; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Biological; Fathers, Influence; Fathers, Involvement; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Siblings; Substance Use Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper was presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Meetings, November 1999, in Washington, DC. This paper uses new data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine how father involvement affects several behavioral outcomes for adolescents ages 10 to 14. Descriptive statistics on the sample characteristics and father involvement are presented; then, regression models are estimated to assess the overall effect of involvement by biological fathers, as well as the effect of involvement in particular family situations.
	Bibliography Citation Carlson, Marcia Jeanne. "Do Fathers Really Matter?: Father Involvement and Social-Psychological Outcomes for Adolescents." Working Paper #99-04, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University, November 1999.

2.	Harper, Cynthia Channing McLanahan, Sara S.
2.	Father Absence and Youth Incarceration Working Paper #99-03, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, October 1999. Also: http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP99-03-Harper.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Office of Population Research, Princeton University Keyword(s): Family Formation; Family Influences; Family Structure; Fathers, Absence; Incarceration/Jail; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study measures the likelihood of incarceration among contemporary male youths from father-absent households, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Hypotheses test the contribution of socioeconomic disadvantage, poverty, family instability, residential adults in father-absent households, as well as selection bias. Results from longitudinal event history analysis show that while certain unfavorable circumstances, such as teen motherhood, low parent education, urban residence, racial inequalities and poverty, are associated with incarceration among father-absent youths, net of these factors, these youths still face double the odds of their peers. Nonetheless, youths from stepparent families are even more vulnerable to the risk of incarceration, especially those in father-stepmother households, which suggests that the re-marriage may present even greater difficulties for male children than father absence.
	Bibliography Citation Harper, Cynthia Channing and Sara S. McLanahan. "Father Absence and Youth Incarceration." Working Paper #99-03, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, October 1999.

3.	Plotnick, Robert D. Garfinkel, Irwin Gaylin, Daniel S. McLanahan, Sara S. Ku, Inhoe
3.	Better Child Support Enforcement: Can it Reduce Teenage Premarital Childbearing? Working Paper #99-01, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, 1999. Also: http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP99-01-Plotnick.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Office of Population Research, Princeton University Keyword(s): Adolescent Fertility; Child Support; Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Ethnic Differences; Hispanics; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Stricter child support enforcement may reduce unwed childbearing by raising the costs of fatherhood. We investigate this hypothesis using a sample of young women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, to which we add information on state child support enforcement. Models of the probability of a teenage premarital birth and of teenage premarital pregnancy and pregnancy resolution provide tentative evidence that, during the early 1980s, teens living in states with higher rates of paternity establishment were less likely to become unwed mothers. This relationship is stronger for non-Hispanic whites than for non-Hispanic blacks. The findings suggest that policies that shift more costs of premarital childbearing to men may reduce this behavior, at least among non-Hispanic whites.
	Bibliography Citation Plotnick, Robert D., Irwin Garfinkel, Daniel S. Gaylin, Sara S. McLanahan and Inhoe Ku. "Better Child Support Enforcement: Can it Reduce Teenage Premarital Childbearing?" Working Paper #99-01, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, 1999.

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