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PUBLICATIONS ARCHIVE:
Child Poverty

The archive section contains all products published before 2007.

Research Briefs

  How Welfare Reform Might Affect Children: Updating the Conceptual Model
Kristin A. Moore; Martha J. Zaslow
December 2004

  Poor Families in 2001: Parents Working Less and Children Continue to Lag Behind
Richard Wertheimer
May 2003

  Children in Poverty: Trends, Consequences, and Policy Options
Kristin Anderson Moore; Zakia Redd
November 2002

  Children of Current and Former Welfare Recipients: Similarly at Risk
Kathryn Tout; Juliet Scarpa; Martha J. Zaslow
March 2002

  Symptoms of Depression Among Welfare Recipients: A Concern for Two Generations
Surjeet K. Ahluwalia; Sharon M. McGroder; Martha J. Zaslow; Elizabeth C. Hair
December 2001

  Teens, Jobs, and Welfare: Implications for Social Policy
Brett Brown
August 2001

  Welfare Reform's Impact on Adolescents: Early Warning Signs
Jennifer L. Brooks; Elizabeth C. Hair; Martha J. Zaslow
July 2001

  Working Poor Families with Children: Leaving Welfare Doesn't Necessarily Mean Leaving Poverty
Richard Wertheimer
May 2001

Executive Summaries & Full Reports

  Children in Working Poor Families: Update and Extensions
Richard Wertheimer; Melissa Long; Justin Jager
The Foundation for Child Development
October 2002

  The Unfinished Business of Welfare Reform: Improving Prospects for Poor Children and Youth. Perspectives from Research
Kristin Moore; Martha Zaslow
Child Trends
April 2002

  Impacts on Children in Experimental Studies of Welfare-to-Work Programs
Most of the research on policies for families receiving welfare has focused on adult outcomes, such as welfare receipt, employment, earnings, and income. This paper builds on an important development in this research: the launching of a set of rigorous experimental studies focusing simultaneously on impacts on adults and children.

  Working Poor Families With Children: Summary Report
Richard Wertheimer
Child Trends
February 1999

  Children in Working Poor Families: A Review of the Literature
As part of an update and extension of our previous work (Wertheimer, 1999), this review provides a review of this burgeoning literature.

  Effects of the JOBS Program on Mother-Child Relations During the Early Months of Program Participation
Martha J. Zaslow; M. Robin Dion; Donna R. Morrison.
Washington, D.C.: Society for Research in Child Development
April 3, 1997

  Building Common Definitions and Moving Toward Common Constructs: Planning Phase of the Project on State-Level Child Outcomes
Child Trends
Washington, DC: Child Trends
November 6, 1996

  Some National Comparisons of Adopted and Nonadopted Children
Nicholas Zill
Washington, DC: Child Trends
March 1, 1990

  A Compendium and Review of Information Sources on Children in Poverty
James Peterson
Washington, DC: Child Trends
February 1985

Speeches, Presentations & Briefings

  Severe Housing Cost Burden and Hardship in Working Families
Sharon Vandivere; Megan Gallagher; Elizabeth Hair; Richard Wertheimer
Population Association of America Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA
March 31, 2005

  Indicators in the Child Welfare System: Strengthening Abuse & Neglect Courts in America Presentation
Kristin A. Moore
Presentation to a meeting on “Strengthening Abuse and Neglect Courts in America”
Miami, FL
June 24, 2004

  Critical Housing Needs Among Working Families: Child, Parent, and Family Hardship and Well-Being
Elizabeth Hair; Kevin Cleveland; Megan Gallagher; Sharon Vandivere; Richard Wertheimer; Daniel Berry
Presentation to the board of the Center for Housing Policy
Washington D.C.
April 28, 2004

  State-Level Welfare Policies and Subsequent Non-Marital Childbearing
Suzanne Ryan; Jennifer Manlove; Sandy Hofferth
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
November 6, 2003

Fact Sheets

  Children and Welfare Reform Reauthorization
Child Trends
April 2002

Other Publications

  Vulnerable Youth: Recent Trends
R. Wertheimer - A. Atienza. Baltimore, MD: Annie E. Casey Foundation. April 2006.

State-level Welfare Policies and Nonmarital Subsequent Childbearing
S. Ryan - J. Manlove - S. L. Hofferth. Population Research and Policy Review, 25(1): 105-128. February 2006. Read more...

Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Programs and Preschool-Age Children: Do Impacts Persist into Middle Childhood?
S. M. McGroder - M. Zaslow - K. A. Moore - J. L. In Brooks. A. C. Huston and M. N. Ripke (Eds.), Development Contexts in Middle Childhood (pp.350-369). Cambridge University Press. 2006. Read more...

Rethinking Race/Ethnicity, Income and Childhood Asthma: Racial/Ethnic Disparities Concentrated Among the Very Poor
L. A. Smith - J. Hatcher - R. S. Kahn - R. F. Wertheimer. Public Health Reports, 120(2): 109-116. March/April 2005. Read more...

Do Child Characteristics Affect How Children Fare in Families Leaving and Receiving Welfare?
S. Vandivere - M. Zaslow - J. Brooks - Z. Redd. Assessing the New Federalism Discussion Paper No. 04-04. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute. August 2004. Read more...

Welfare Reform and Children: A Synthesis of Impacts in Five States
Child Trends - MDRC - Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. - Abt Associates. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families (for The Project on State-Level Child Outcomes). March 2004. Read more...

  Unsupervised Time: Family and Child Factors Associated with Self-Care
Sharon Vandivere - Kathryn Tout - Martha Zaslow - Julia Calkins - Jeffrey Capizzano. Assessing the New Federalism series. Urban Institute. April 2003

How Are Children Faring under Welfare Reform? Emerging Patterns
M. Zaslow - K. Moore - K. Tout - J. Scarpa - S. Vandivere. A. Weil and K. Feingold (Eds.), Welfare Reform: The Next Act (pp. 79-101). Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press. 2003.

  Children and Welfare Reform Reauthorization
Child Trends. April 2002

Welfare Reform and Children: Potential Implications
M. Zaslow; K. Tout; C. Botsko; K.A. Moore. Urban Institute's Assessing the New Federalism program. June 1998. Read more...