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WORKING PAPERS BY NETWORK MEMBER

* Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
* Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
* Greg J. Duncan
* Paula England
* Nancy Folbre
* Sara McLanahan
* Robert A. Pollak
* Tim Smeeding

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* Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
The following four papers are not available to download at this time.

"Struggling to Make Ends Meet, Poverty and Child Development"
J. Brooks-Gunn, Pia Rebello Britto, and Christy Brady

"Transitions on and off welfare: Implications for parenting and children's cognitive development"
J. R. Smith, J. Brooks-Gunn, D. Kohen, C. McCarton

"Familywork: Welfare changes, parenting and young children."
J. Brooks-Gunn, J. Smith, L. Berlin, K. Lee (in press). In G.K. Brookins (Ed.). Exits from poverty. New York: Cambridge University Press.

"Maternal employment effects on welfare recipient families: Consequences for maternal psycho-social behaviors and children's outcomes."
K. Lee, S. Kamerman, J. Brooks-Gunn.


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* Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
"How Development Psychologists Think About Family Process and Child Development in Low Income Families"
by P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale


"Women's Participation in Market Work and the Availability of Child Care in the United States,"
Rachel A. Gordon and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

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"'Mama, I'm a Person, Too!': Individuation and Young African-American Mothers' Parenting Competence"
Lauren S. Wakschlag, Laura D. Pittman, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn


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* Greg J. Duncan
"Time Limits and Welfare Reform: New Estimates of the Number and Characteristics of Affected Families"
Greg J. Duncan, Kathleen Mullan Harriss and Johanne Boisjoly


"How Different ARE Welfare and Working Families? And Do Those Differences Matter for Children's Achievement?"
Greg J. Duncan, Rachel Dunifon, Morgan Ward Doran and W. Jean Yeung


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* Paula England
"Reconceptualizing Human Capital"
Paula England and Nancy Folbre


The Effects of Motherhood on Wages in Recent Cohorts: Findings From the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Paula England and Michelle J. Budig


"Gender Inequality in Poverty in Affluent Nations: The Role of Single Motherhood and the State"
Karen Christopher, Paula England, Sara McLanahan, Katherin Ross, and Timothy Smeeding


"The Wage Penalty for Motherhood"
Michelle J. Budig and Paula England


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* Nancy Folbre
"Reconceptualizing Human Capital"
Nancy Folbre and Paula England


"A Time (Use Survey) for Every Purpose: Non-market Work and the Production of Human Capabilities "
Nancy Folbre


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* Sara McLanahan
"Understanding Child Support Trends,"
Anne Case, I-Fen Lin, and Sara McLanahan.


"Educational Attainment in Blended Families"
Anne Case, I-Fen Lin, and Sara McLanahan.


"Unwed Parents or Fragile Families?"
Sara McLanahan, Irwin Garfinkel, Nancy Reichman, and Julien Teitler.


"Father Absence and the Welfare of Children"
Sara McLanahan


"The Feminization of Poverty: Past and Future"
Sara S. McLanahan and Erin L. Kelly


"Will Child Support Enforcement Increase Father-Child Contact and Parental Conflict after Separation?"
Sara McLanahan, Judith A. Seltzer and Thomas L. Hanson


"Household Resource Allocation in Step Families: Darwin Reflects on the Plight of Cinderella,"
by Anne Case, I-Fen Lin and Sara Mclanahan (this paper is not available to download, click for publishing information.)


"Gender Inequality in Poverty in Affluent Nations: The Role of Single Motherhood and the State"
Karen Christopher, Paula England, Sara McLanahan, Katherin Ross, and Timothy Smeeding


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* Robert A. Pollak
"An Intergenerational Model of Domestic Violence"
by Robert A. Pollak


"Does Family Structure Affect Children's Educatiional Outcomes?" by Donna K. Ginther and Robert A. Pollak


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* Tim Smeeding
"The EITC: Expectation, Knowledge, Use, and Economic and Social Mobility"
Timothy Smeeding, Katherin Ross Phillips and Michael O'Connor


"Cross-National Differences in Employment and Economic Sufficency"
Timothy Smeeding, Katherin Ross


"The EITC and USAs/IDAs: Maybe a Marriage Made in Heaven?"
Timothy Smeeding


"United States Poverty in a Cross-National Context"
Timothy Smeeding, Lee Rainwater and Gary Burtless


"U.S. Income Inequality in a Cross-National Perspective: Why Are We So Different?"
Timothy Smeeding


"Time and Public Policy: Why Do We Care and What Instruments are Needed?"
Timothy Smeeding


Social Protection for the Poor in the Developed World: The Evidence from LIS"
Timothy Smeeding, Katherin Ross


"Gender Inequality in Poverty in Affluent Nations: The Role of Single Motherhood and the State"
Karen Christopher, Paula England, Sara McLanahan, Katherin Ross, and Timothy Smeeding


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