[X]Close
Directories | Contact Us | University of Chicago
Quick Links
STUDENTS  |  FACULTY  |  ALUMNI  |  BOARDS
Research up one level
 
Children & Families

How Does Childhood Poverty Impact Adult Body Mass Index?
Ariel Kalil, Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest, PhD’05, and Greg J. Duncan

Obesity rates among U.S. adults have skyrocketed in the last 20 years. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent numbers now classify 34 percent of adults as overweight and 30 percent as obese. And the impact can be felt both by the individual and society as a whole, as weight-related health problems account for approximately 5 to 7 percent of total health care expenditures in the United States every year. Read more >>

Children & Families Research Areas
 

Child development, Families and the economy




Research in Brief
 

2008

The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review
Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly

Essays on Children’s Health Insurance
Lindsey Leininger

Intimate Partner Violence and STI Risk in the Former Soviet Union: Findings from Ukraine and Kazakhstan
Annie Dude

Living Arrangements and Children’s Development in Low-Income White, Black, and Latino Families
Ariel Kalil and E. Michael Foster

Parental Employment Circumstances and Children’s Academic Progress
Ariel Kalil and Kathleen Ziol-Guest

Time Out of the Workforce and Women's Wages: A Critical Literature Review
Jessica Manvell

2007

Alimony Rights and Intrahousehold Allocation of Resources: Evidence from Brazil
Marcos Rangel

The Economic Costs of Poverty: Subsequent Effects of Children Growing Up Poor
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Harry Holzer, Greg Duncan, and Jens Ludwig

The Impact of Welfare Reform on Insurance Coverage before Pregnancy and the Timing of Prenatal Care Initiation
Willard Manning

Is Parental Love Color Blind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed-Race Families
Marcos Rangel

The Nature and Consequences of Marital Sorting by Parental Wealth
Kerwin Charles, Erik Hurst, and Liqian Ren

2006

Beyond Single-Parenthood: On the Spillover Effects of Child Support Enforcement in the U.S.
Marcos Rangel

Do Market Incentives Generate Innovation or Balkanization? Evidence from the Market for Rare Disease Drugs
Wesley Yin

The Economic Influence of Child Support on the Family: Evidence from Pre- and Post-Welfare Reform
Kathleen Ziol-Guest

Job Stability, Job Mobility, and Child Behavior among Families Leaving Welfare
Ariel Kalil

Out of West Africa: Evidence on the Efficient Allocation of Resources within Farm Households
Marcos Rangel and Duncan Thomas

Perceptions of HIV Risks among Married Couples in Malawi: Why Do Wives Worry More?
Shelley Clark

Protecting Girls from HIV/AIDS: The Case Against Child and Early Marriage
Shelley Clark, Judith Bruce, and Annie Dude

Reciprocal Relations between Parental Employment Experiences and Child, Mother, and Father Health
Ariel Kalil

Social Networks, Extra-Marital Sexual Partners, and Suspicion among Married Couples in Rural Malawi
Shelley Clark

Welfare Leaving and Health Trajectories among the Children of Immigrants and Natives
Ariel Kalil

2005

The Chicago School Readiness Project
C. Cybele Raver

Do School Lunches Contribute to Childhood Obesity?
Diane Whitmore

Do the Poor Move to Receive Higher Welfare Benefits?
Bruce Meyer

Effect of Health Insurance Over Sixty
Willard Manning

The Effects of Welfare and Tax Reform: The Material Well-Being of Single Mothers in the 1980s and 1990s
Bruce Meyer and James Sullivan

Eradicating Child Labor: Should International Law Remain the Vehicle for Implementing Policy Objectives?
Alexandra A. Forter

Following in Their Parents’ Footsteps
Ariel Kalil, J. Levine, and K. Ziol-Guest

The Implications of Early Marriage for HIV/AIDS Policy
Shelley Clark and Judith Bruce

Making Connections Survey
Colm O'Muircheartaigh

Maternal Working Conditions and Child Well-Being in Welfare-Leaving Families
Ariel Kalil, R. Dunifon, and A. Bajrachary

Parental Job Loss and Children’s Academic Performance
Ariel Kalil and K. Ziol-Guest

Patterns of Father Involvement in Teenage-Mother Families: Predictors and Links to Mothers’ Psychological Well-Being
Ariel Kalil, R. Coley, and K. Ziol-Guest

Trends in the Consumption and Income of Poor Families
Bruce Meyer and James Sullivan

Unemployment, the Division of Household Tasks, and Psychological Well-Being among Fathers and Mothers
Ariel Kalil and K. Ziol-Guest

2004

Another Step Back?
C. Cybele Raver and Edward Zigler

Children’s Cognitive Skill Development in Britain and the United States
Robert Michael

Does Work Pay Psychologically As Well As Economically?
C. Cybele Raver

Economic Conditions, Parenting, and Educational Outcomes in Four Race/Ethnic Groups
Ariel Kalil and John Schneider

An Economic Perspective on Sex, Marriage, and the Family in the Contemporary United States
Robert T. Michael

Emotions Matter: A Longitudinal Study of the Impact of Classroom-Based Integrated Intervention on Low-Income Children’s School Readiness
C. Cybele Raver

Family Investments in Children: Resources and Parenting Behaviors That Promote Success
Ariel Kalil and Thomas DeLeire

Father’s Perceptions of Paternal Roles: Variations by Marital Status and Living Arrangement
Ariel Kalil

National Children’s Study
Robert T. Michael

School Lunches and Childhood Obesity
Diane Whitmore

Selective Discrimination and Sibling Rivalry: Consequences of Sibling Composition for Children in India
Shelley Clark

Single Mothers’ Employment Dynamics and Adolescent Well-Being
Ariel Kalil and Kathleen Ziol-Guest

Transitions in Insurance Coverage from before Pregnancy through Delivery in Nine States, 1996–1999
Willard Manning, E. Adams, N. Gavin, and others

2003

The Apple Does Not Fall Far from the Tree
Susan Mayer, Greg Duncan, and Ariel Kalil

An Assessment of Some Mechanisms Linking Economic Inequality and Infant Mortality
Susan Mayer

The Changing Effect of Family Background on the Incomes of American Adults
Susan Mayer, David Harding, Christopher Jencks, and Leonard Lopoo

Domestic Violence and Children’s Behavior in Low-Income Families
Ariel Kalil, R. Tolman, D. Rosen, and G. Gruber

Early Marriage and HIV Risks in Sub-Saharan Africa
Shelley Clark

Effects of Welfare Reform on Families: Three Articles
Ariel Kalil

Emotions Matter: Making the Case for the Role of Young Children’s Emotional Development for Early School-Readiness
C. Cybele Raver

Family Influence on Children’s Verbal Ability
Robert T. Michael

Family Investments in Children’s Potential: Resources and Behaviors That Promote Children’s Success
Ariel Kalil and Thomas DeLeire

Family Size, Health Insurance, Medical Care
Helen Levy and Thomas DeLeire

Gender Preference and Child Outcome in India
Shelley Clark

Good Things Come In 3’s: Multigenerational Coresidence and Adolescent Adjustment
Ariel Kalil and Thomas DeLeire

Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed?
Susan Mayer and Leonard Lopoo

How Do Cohabiting Couples with Children Spend Their Money?
Ariel Kalil and Leonard Lopoo

Incarcerated Mothers: The Project on Female Prisoners and Their Children
Robert LaLonde and Susan George

More from the NLSY
Robert T. Michael

Ready to Enter: What Research Tells Policymakers about Strategies to Promote Social and Emotional School-Readiness among Three- and Four-Year-Old Children
C. Cybele Raver and Jane Knitzer

Social Fathering in Low-Income African American Families with Preschool Children
Ariel Kalil and R. Jayakody

Teenage Childbearing, Marital Status, and Depressive Symptoms in Later Life
Ariel Kalil and James Kunz

Trends in the Intergenerational Economic Mobility of Sons and Daughters
Susan Mayer and Leonard Lopoo

2002

Children's Cognitive Skill Development in Britain and the United States
Robert T. Michael

Correlates of Employment Among Welfare Recipients: Do Psychological Characteristics and Attitudes Matter?
Ariel Kalil, Heidi Schweingruber, and Kristin Seefeldt

Does Maternal Employment Mandated by Welfare-Reform Affect Children's Behavior?
Ariel Kalil, Rachel Dunifon, and Sandra Danziger

Good Things Come in 3's: Single-Parent Multigenerational Family Structure and Adolescent Adjustment
Ariel Kalil and Thomas DeLeire

Individual and Social Consequences of Incarcerating Women with Minor Children
Robert LaLonde

Living Arrangements of Single-Mother Families: Variations, Transitions, and Child Development Outcomes
Ariel Kalil and Thomas DeLeire

The Role of Early Childhood Education in Current Federal Education Policy: Ensuring Future Academic Success through High Quality Language and Cognitive Experiences for Young Children in Poverty
Jennifer Guerrero Flood

Social Awakening: Adolescent Behavior as Adulthood Approaches
Robert T. Michael

2001

Do Child Care Prices Affect Fertility?
Leonard Lopoo

Measuring Poverty in the NLSY97
Robert T. Michael and Carolyn Hill

Transitions to Adulthood for Adolescent Mothers
Ariel Kalil

Understanding the Importance of Early Childhood Experiences for Achievement
Robert T. Michael and Susan Levine

1998

An Economic Consideration of Same-Gender Marriage and Fertility
Adam A. Doty

1997

Building Strong Foundation in Early Childhood: A Developmental Approach to Human Capital
Kathryn Tout and Arturo Sesma, Jr

1996

The Cost and Consequences of Teenage Childbearing for Mothers and the Government
V. Joseph Hotz, Susan Williams, and Seth G. Sanders

Establishing Paternity: Can States Meet the 90 Percent Welfare Reform Standard?
Robert G. Williams


 
Research Features
 
2008
 
The Economics of Gay and Lesbian Families
Dan Black, Seth G. Sanders, and Lowell J. Taylor
Read more >>
The Long View: Women and Welfare after Prison
Robert LaLonde and Kristin Butcher
Read more >>
2007
 
The Effect of TANF on Mothers and Infants: Pre-Pregnancy and Early Prenatal Care Declines
Willard Manning, Norma I. Gavin , Kathleen Adams , and Cheryl Raskind-Hood
Read more >>
Marital Sorting by Parental Wealth
Kerwin Charles, Erik Hurst , and Liqian Ren
Read more >>
 

Copyright © 2009 by The University of Chicago. 1155 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA, 773.702.8400 - Site Map - Faculty/Staff Portal - Student Portal