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In this study, we use nationally representative data from the U.S. Current Population Survey-Child Support Supplement (N = 28,047) to examine differences in nonresident fathers’ material contributions between children of native and foreign-born mothers. We focus on contributions provided...
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Over the past eight years the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) invested nearly $150 million to help increase and maintain enrollment of children and families eligible for but not enrolled in Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This substantial...
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-child visitation; difficulties suicide and mother’s emotional challenges. Children of incarcerated mothers encountered challenges such …
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We examine the effects of entrance .fees and other factors in visitation to U.S. national park areas under two … determinants of visitation rates. (National park areas include natural protected areas, historic areas, and other categories in the … attributes in visitation, but are equivocal on the role of entrance fees. The role of other socio-economic variables and of park …
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Policy interest and support for increasing the positive involvement of fathers in their children's lives has increased substantially in recent years, with a dedicated federal funding stream for responsible fatherhood programs.
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budget appropriations are related to inflation, visitation, size, region of the country, and type of park unit. The growth … visitation growth nor growth in acreage seems to have much effect on budget growth for individual park units. Individual park … units with higher visitation do seem to have larger budgets, ceteris paribus, than do parks with lower average visitation …
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We examined households’ dynamic patterns of net worth accumulation between 1999 and 2009 and asked whether these patterns related to the financial health of young adults growing up in those households. Two patterns of net worth emerged—the first remained high and stable and the second...
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We study how estimators used to impute consumption in survey data are inconsistent due to measurement error in consumption. Previous research suggests instrumenting consumption to overcome this problem. We show that, if additional regressors are present in the estimation, then instrumenting...
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