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Title: Family Social Capital through Childhood: A Sibling Model of Behavior Problems
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1. Hao, Lingxin
Matsueda, Ross L.
Family Social Capital through Childhood: A Sibling Model of Behavior Problems
CSDE Working Paper No. 99-06, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, Seattle, March 1999.
Also: http://csde.washington.edu/downloads/99-6.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Children, Behavioral Development; Endogeneity; Heterogeneity; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Life Course; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Poverty; Punishment, Corporal; Siblings; Variables, Instrumental; Welfare

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An earlier version of this paper entitled "Teenage Childbearing, Social Capital, and Sibling Behavior Problems" was presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada, August 1997. This article uses the concept of family social capital to conceptualize mothers' life course changes and parent-child interactions in models of children's behavior problems. To investigate structural relations generating social resources, we examine families' internal closure and embeddedness in society. We take a life course view and focus on the timing and duration of mothers' poverty, single motherhood, welfare, employment, and kin coresidence through early and middle childhood. Drawing on the child psychology and social capital literatures, we specify a model of parent-child interactions as a reciprocal outcome between parenting and children's behavior. To control for unobserved family heterogeneity and reciprocal causation, we estimate fixed-effects sibling models with lagged endogenous predictors and instrumental variables. Using data on mothers and children from the NLSY, we find that child behavior problems are shaped by poverty in early and middle childhood, as well as parents' use of physical punishment.
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Hao, Lingxin and Ross L. Matsueda. "Family Social Capital through Childhood: A Sibling Model of Behavior Problems." CSDE Working Paper No. 99-06, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, Seattle, March 1999.