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Source: Harvard University Press
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1. Mayer, Susan E.
What Money Can't Buy: Family Income and Children's Life Chances
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Behavioral Problems; Children; Economic Well-Being; Educational Attainment; Family Size; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Household Composition; Income; Mobility, Social; Mothers, Education; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Parental Influences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Poverty; Social Environment; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT; Welfare; Well-Being

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Assesses the effect of parental income on young children, teenagers, and young adults. Describes America's different policies in response to poverty over the last two hundred years. Compares outcomes for rich and poor children in terms of test scores; behavior problems; educational attainment; young men's wages and labor-market participation; and risks of becoming a teenage mother, a single mother, or high school dropout. Presents conventional estimates of the effect of income. Investigates the "true" effect of income by controlling for parental characteristics that influence the parents' income and the children's outcomes. Discusses income, material well-being, and children's success; the relationship between income, the psychological well-being of parents, and parenting practices; trends in parental income in comparison with trends in children's outcomes; and the outcomes of children who lived in states that paid high Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) benefits versus the outcomes of children who lived in states that paid low controlling for parental characteristics that influence the parents' income and the children's outcomes. Discusses income, material well-being, and children's success; the relationship between income, the psychological well-being of parents, and parenting practices; trends in parental income in comparison with trends in children's outcomes; and the outcomes of children who lived in states that paid high Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) benefits versus the outcomes of children who lived in states that paid low.
Bibliography Citation
Mayer, Susan E. What Money Can't Buy: Family Income and Children's Life Chances. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
2. McLanahan, Sara S.
Sandefur, Gary D.
Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1994
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keyword(s): Childbearing; Children; Children, Home Environment; College Enrollment; College Graduates; Control; Economic Well-Being; Family Environment; Family Structure; High School Completion/Graduates; Labor Force Participation; Marriage; Parents, Single; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations

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...We base our conclusions on evidence taken from four nationally representative data sets, including three longitudinal surveys and a fourth survey with retrospective data on children's living arrangements growing up. (Each of these data sets, including the major variables, is described in detail in Appendix A.) We examine a wide variety of child outcomes, including high school grades and graduation, college attendance and graduation, early childbearing and marriage, and early labor force attachment. While this set of outcomes does not cover all aspects of well-being, we believe it is a good indicator of a child's chances of economic success in adulthood, defined as being able to support oneself at a standard of living above the poverty line and being able to maintain a steady income throughout the year and from one year to the next. While economic independence and security are not the only measures of success, in a market-oriented economy such as ours they are fundamental. Without some degree of economic independence, a person is unlikely to achieve high self-esteem or a sense of control over her life (psychological success). Nor is she likely to command the respect of her peers (social success). Financial dependence and insecurity also make it harder to achieve family stability and community cohesion, other indicators of social success...
Bibliography Citation
McLanahan, Sara S. and Gary D. Sandefur. Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.
3. Waldfogel, Jane
What Children Need
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keyword(s): Academic Development; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Breastfeeding; Childbearing; Cognitive Development; Employment; Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA); Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Leave, Family or Maternity/Paternity; Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading)

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Bibliography Citation
Waldfogel, Jane. What Children Need. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.