SARA contact MCLANAHAN

Summary

Affiliation: Princeton University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Diverging destinies: how children are faring under the second demographic transition
    Sara McLanahan
    Department of Sociology, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 265 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
    Demography 41:607-27. 2004
  2. ncbi The mental health of married, cohabiting, and non-coresident parents with infants
    Michelle DeKlyen
    Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
    Am J Public Health 96:1836-41. 2006
  3. ncbi Union formation in fragile families
    Marcia Carlson
    Columbia University, School of Social Work, 622 West 113th Street, New York, NY 10025, USA
    Demography 41:237-61. 2004
  4. ncbi The living arrangements of new unmarried mothers
    Wendy Sigle-Rushton
    ESRC Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom
    Demography 39:415-33. 2002
  5. ncbi Racial and ethnic differentials in overweight and obesity among 3-year-old children
    Rachel Tolbert Kimbro
    Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Am J Public Health 97:298-305. 2007
  6. ncbi Child gender and father involvement in fragile families
    Shelly Lundberg
    Department of Economics and Center for Research on Families, University of Washington, Seattle 98195 3330, USA
    Demography 44:79-92. 2007

Research Grants

  1. FRAGILE FAMILIES AND CHILD WELLBEING
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2003
  2. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing in Middle Childhood
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2007
  3. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing in Middle Childhood
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2009
  4. Children's Health Disparities in the U.S. and the U.K.: The Role of the Family
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2009
  5. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing in Middle Childhood
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2010
  6. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing in Middle Childhood
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2009
  7. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing in Middle Childhood
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2009
  8. CHILD SUPPORT REFORM AND CHILD WELL-BEING
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2001
  9. CHILD SUPPORT REFORM AND CHILD WELL-BEING
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 1993
  10. INTERGENERATIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF FAMILY DISRUPTION
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 1991

Collaborators

Detail Information

Publications6

  1. ncbi Diverging destinies: how children are faring under the second demographic transition
    Sara McLanahan
    Department of Sociology, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 265 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
    Demography 41:607-27. 2004
    ..I contend that Americans should be concerned about the growing disparity in parental resources and that the government can do more to close the gap between rich and poor children...
  2. ncbi The mental health of married, cohabiting, and non-coresident parents with infants
    Michelle DeKlyen
    Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
    Am J Public Health 96:1836-41. 2006
    ..We compared recent parents (married, cohabiting, not cohabiting but romantically involved, and not romantically involved) to examine the association between mental health problems and relationship status...
  3. ncbi Union formation in fragile families
    Marcia Carlson
    Columbia University, School of Social Work, 622 West 113th Street, New York, NY 10025, USA
    Demography 41:237-61. 2004
    ....
  4. ncbi The living arrangements of new unmarried mothers
    Wendy Sigle-Rushton
    ESRC Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom
    Demography 39:415-33. 2002
    ..We also find that mothers' choices of living arrangements are significantly related to parents' human capital, the quality of their relationship, and the cost of housing...
  5. ncbi Racial and ethnic differentials in overweight and obesity among 3-year-old children
    Rachel Tolbert Kimbro
    Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Am J Public Health 97:298-305. 2007
    ..We estimated racial/ethnic differences in overweight and obesity in a national sample of 3-year-olds from urban, low-income families and assessed possible determinants of differences...
  6. ncbi Child gender and father involvement in fragile families
    Shelly Lundberg
    Department of Economics and Center for Research on Families, University of Washington, Seattle 98195 3330, USA
    Demography 44:79-92. 2007
    ..This pattern supports an interpretation of child gender effects based on parental beliefs about the importance of fathers for the long-term development of sons...

Research Grants24

  1. FRAGILE FAMILIES AND CHILD WELLBEING
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2003
    ..It will also provide policy-makers with important information on the implementation of welfare and child support reforms and how they play out in different labor market environments. ..
  2. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing in Middle Childhood
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..The information on unmarried fathers, in particular, allows us to follow a group of men that is often under-sampled in national surveys. ..
  3. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing in Middle Childhood
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..The information on unmarried fathers, in particular, allows us to follow a group of men that is often under-sampled in national surveys. ..
  4. Children's Health Disparities in the U.S. and the U.K.: The Role of the Family
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ....
  5. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing in Middle Childhood
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..The information on unmarried fathers, in particular, allows us to follow a group of men that is often under-sampled in national surveys. ..
  6. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing in Middle Childhood
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..The information on unmarried fathers, in particular, allows us to follow a group of men that is often under-sampled in national surveys. ..
  7. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing in Middle Childhood
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..The information on unmarried fathers, in particular, allows us to follow a group of men that is often under-sampled in national surveys. ..
  8. CHILD SUPPORT REFORM AND CHILD WELL-BEING
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 2001
    ..Finally, they plan to collect new data from a sample of New York City mothers who are eligible for child support. ..
  9. CHILD SUPPORT REFORM AND CHILD WELL-BEING
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 1993
    ..We test for both an income effect and a father-involvement effect, both of which are expected to affect child well-being directly and indirectly through mother's remarriage and labor supply, residential mobility, and parental conflict...
  10. INTERGENERATIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF FAMILY DISRUPTION
    Sara McLanahan; Fiscal Year: 1991
    ....
  11. Children's Health Disparities in the U.S. and the U.K.: The Role of the Family
    SARA contact MCLANAHAN; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ....