Working Papers

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23-01-ff: Ethnic/Racial Disparities in DNA Methylation Age Profiles across the Lifespan

Juan Del Toro, Colin Freilich, Gianna Rea-Sandin, Kristian Markon and Sylia Wilson

22-01-ff: Policing Disability: Law Enforcement Contact among Urban Teens

Amanda Geller, Kristin Turney and Sarah Remes

20-03-ff: Family instability from Birth to Adolescence: Evidence from a Birth Cohort Study

Sarah Gold, Brandon Wagner, Sara McLanahan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

19-12-ff: Vicarious and Contingent Consequences of Adolescent Police Exposure

Kristin Turney

19-11-ff: Keeping Promises: Single Mothers, Race, and Elementary Educational Engagement

Yiwan Ye and Larissa Saco

19-09-ff: The Health-Related Consequences to Police Stops as Pathways to Risks in Academic Performance for Urban Adolescents

Juan Del Toro, Alvin Thomas, Ming-Te Wang and Diane Hughes

19-08-ff: Transforming Police Surveillance of Kids to the Civic Incorporation of Youth

Vesla Weaver and Amanda Geller

19-07-ff: Race, Skin Tone, and Police Contact Among Contemporary Teens

Amanda Geller and Ellis Monk

19-06-ff: Police Contact in Adolescence: Sexual Minorities and Health Inequality

Amanda Geller and Gabriel Schwartz

19-05-ff: The Role of Child Support Debt on the Development of Mental Health Problems among Nonresident Fathers

Hyunjoon Um

19-04-ff: Unintended Consequences: Protective State Policies and the Employment of Fathers with Criminal Records

Allison Dwyer Emory

19-03-ff: Children in Fragile Families

Sara McLanahan, Kate Jaeger and Kristin Catena

19-02-ff: The Effect of Direct and Vicarious Police Contact on the Educational Achievement of Urban Teens

Aaron Gottlieb and Robert Wilson

19-01-ff: Vicarious and Contingent Consequences of Adolescent Police Exposure

Kristin Turney

18-10-ff: Improving metadata infrastructure for complex surveys: 
Insights from the Fragile Families Challenge

Alexander Kindel, Vineet Bansal, Kristin Catena, Thomas Hartshorne and Kate Jaeger

18-09-ff: Privacy, ethics, and data access: A case study of the Fragile Families Challenge

Ian Lundberg, Arvind Narayanan, Karen Levy and Matthew Salganik

18-08-ff: The Effects of Maternal Depression on Nine-Year-Old Children’s Behavior, Physical Health, and Cognition

Christine Porr and Kelly Noonan

18-07-ff: The long-reach of nonresident fathers’ financial support on children’s skills in fragile families: Parental investments, family processes, and children’s language skills

Ronald Mincy, Natasha Cabrera, Elia De La Cruz Toledo and Hyunjoon Um

18-06-ff: The long-reach of fathers’ earnings on children’s skills in two-parent families: Parental investments, family processes, and children’s language skills

Natasha Cabrera, Ronald Mincy and Hyunjoon Um

18-04-ff: Unpacking the Drivers of Racial Disparities in School Suspension and Expulsion

Jayanti Owens and Sara McLanahan

18-03-ff: Racial Differences in Marital Outcomes among Unmarried Mothers: The Influence of Perceived Marital Benefits and Expectations

Calvina Ellerbe

18-02-ff: Policing America's Children: Police Contact and Consequences Among Teens in Fragile Families

Amanda Geller

18-01-ff: Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Reduce Housing Instability?

Natasha Pilkauskas and Katherine Michelmore

17-25-ff: Early Exclusionary School Discipline and Adolescent Wellbeing

Nayan Ramirez, Garrett Pace, Gerardo Cuevas and Wade Jacobsen

17-24-ff: Understanding Child Support Trajectories

Laurel Sariscsany, Irwin Garfinkel and Lenna Nepomnyaschy

17-23-ff: Neighborhood Connectivity and Residential Circumstances: Understanding the Role of Public and Private Support

Ellen Whitehead

17-22-ff: Parental Incarceration and Child Overweight

Amelia Branigan and Christopher Wildeman

17-21-ff: Does Birth Weight Influence Grit or Can Grit Be Learned After Birth?

Leah Gillion

17-20-ff: The Geography of Opportunity: Developmental Trajectories of Children in Baltimore

Elia Toledo, Irwin Garfinkel and Christopher. Wimer

17-19-ff: The Dynamics of Childcare Instability

Christina Caramanis and Cynthia Osborne

17-18-ff: The Role of Fathers in Reducing Income-Based Inequalities in Children's Behavioral Outcomes

Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Daniel Miller, Maureen Waller and Sarah Gold

17-16-ff: Adolescent Relationship Quality: Is There an Intergenerational Link?

Rachel Goldberg, Marta Tienda, Michelle Eilers and Sara McLanahan

17-15-ff: The Origins of the Racial Gap in School Suspension and Expulsion

Jayanti Owens and Sara McLanahan

17-14-ff: A School-to-Prison Pipeline? Locating the Link Between Exclusionary School Discipline and Juvenile Justice Contact

Joel Mittleman

17-13-ff: Taking Off the Rose-Colored Glasses? Comparing Mothers' and Children's Reports About Father Involvement

Teja Pristavec and Sharon Bzostek

17-12-ff: Fathers' Roles Amidst Family Complexity After a Nonmarital Birth

Marcia Carlson, Lenna Nepomnyaschy and Ariane Ophir

17-11-ff: Fathers’ Parental Leave Use and Relationship Promotion in Fragile Families

Brianne Pragg

17-10-ff: Nonstandard Work Schedules and Father Involvement Among Nonresident and Resident Fathers

Alejandra Ros Pilarz, Laura Cuesta and Yonah Drazen

17-09-ff: Multipartnered Fertility and Children's Behavioral Outcomes Among Urban U.S. Families

Marcia Carlson, Frank Furstenberg, Jr., Sara McLanahan, Nathan Seltzer and Alicia VanOrman

17-08-ff: Neighborhood Air Pollution and Children’s Cognitive Development

Brandon Wagner, Louis Donnelly, Sara McLanahan, Irwin Garfinkel and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

17-07-ff: The Protective Effects of Housing Assistance Programs on Eviction

Louis Donnelly, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Sara McLanahan and Irwin Garfinkel

17-06-ff: The Prevalence of Housing Eviction among Children Born in American Cities

Ian Lundberg and Louis Donnelly

17-05-ff: Links between Childhood Exposure to Violent Contexts and Risky Adolescent Health Behaviors

Sarah James, Louis Donnelly, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Sara McLanahan

17-04-ff: Developmental Pathways Between Low Birth Weight Status and Children's Academic and Socioemotional Competence: The Role of Parenting Processes as a Moderator

Sangita Pudasainee-Kapri and Rachel Razza

17-03-ff: Mass Incarceration and the Underground Economy in America

Brian Sykes and Amanda Geller

17-01-ff: Explaining the Consequences of Paternal Incarceration for Children's Behavioral Problems

Allison Emory

16-09-ff: Moving on Down: The Conflated Impact of Family Instability and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods on Cognitive, Externalizing, and Internalizing Outcomes

Walter Shelley and Colleen Wynn

16-08-ff: Reciprocal Associations between Neighborhood Context and Parent Investments: Selection Effects in Two Longitudinal Samples

Thomas Schofield, Melissa Merrick and Chia-Feng Chen

16-07-ff.pdf: Paternal Multipartner Fertility and Child Neighborhood Disorder

Colleen Wynn

16-05-ff: Race, Romance and Nonresident Father Involvement Resilience: Differences by types of involvement

Ronald Mincy, Hillard Pouncy and Afshin Zilanawala