CRCW associates Ron Haskins, Christina Paxson, and Elisabeth Donahue are keeping a close eye on the progress of both the government and the schools. "Schools have the opportunity, then, both to influence the nutrition children receive on a regular basis and to help children establish lifelong eating habits," they write in the scholarly journal "The Future of Children."
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"As early as age three – before schooling has had a chance to play a role – and throughout childhood, taller children perform significantly better on cognitive tests," wrote Anne Case and Christina Paxson of Princeton University in a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Last month, a team of highly respected sociologists, Becky Pettit of the University of Washington and Bruce Western,
a CRCW research associate at Princeton University, published a new report in the
American Sociological Review. The study, "Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration," reported that African American men are more likely to end up in prison than to earn a bachelor's degree or even serve in the military.
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Last year, a study of nearly 1,500 private employers in New York City found that black job applicants with no criminal record received about the same responses following job interviews as white applicants with criminal records.
The study, published by Devah Pager and Bruce Western, both CRCW research associates at Princeton University, also found that high school educated young white applicants were twice as likely to receive a positive response from potential employers as equally qualified black applicants.
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Research from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, sponsored by Columbia and Princeton universities, found that when young, low-income, unwed couples have a baby, more than 80 percent are romantically involved and more than half expect to get married. Researchers call this "a magic moment." However, the Fragile Families study also found that, despite these good intentions, "most of those couples eventually break up, and even those who do go on to get married have a very high divorce rate. So the central question becomes: What if a a federally funded relationship-skills class was provided to couples when they're in the "magic moment"?
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New York Times article features the Fragile Families Study. Sara S. McLanahan is quoted as saying, “I like the idea of teaching relationship skills and how to manage conflict, something middle-class people often pay for.
But if this is just about preaching marriage, then I don’t see any benefit, noting that programs should also offer things like job training and mental health services.."
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Five thousand children across the country are helping to make public policy — and they're not even 10 years old yet. Born to unmarried couples between 1998 and 2000, the children make up a cohort followed by the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study started by a husband-and-wife team: Princeton University's Sara McLanahan and Columbia University's Irwin Garfinkel.
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Sticker shock about the rapidly rising cost of tuition and fees largely is misplaced, said Cecilia Rouse, CRCW associate and an economist at Princeton University.
Rouse cites two factors to back up that claim: Significant numbers of students get some form of aid, and wages of high school graduates have not climbed nearly as fast as the double-digit gains in tuition at many colleges in recent years.
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Cecilia Rouse, a CRCW associate and economist at Princeton University, was quoted in the Washington Times saying that "a single 18-year-old dropout will earn $260,000 less in income over a lifetime and contribute $60,000." Click here to read the full story.
After reviewing numerous studies for a book, “Opportunity in America,” to be published in September with Princeton University, Brookings Institution scholar Isabel Sawhill states that “the place where you're likely to get the biggest bang for the buck is making investments in children from less-advantaged families.” Click here to read the full story.
The fall 2005 issue of the journal The Future of Children, jointly published by the Brookings Institution and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, was devoted to reviewing the effects of marriage and divorce on children. All of the authors agreed that children do best when they live with their married parents.
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According to research by Cecilia E. Rouse, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, and CRCW Research Associate, high school dropouts contribute $60,000 less in federal and state income taxes over the course of a lifetime than individuals who receive their diploma.
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Co-directors of the National Center for Children and Families (NCCF), Sharon Lynn Kagan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, also a CRCW Research Associate, join the nation's leading researchers on children's policies for a conference at Teachers College.
The four day event, "Capitalizing on the Investment: Making the Most of Your Early Care and Education Dollars," will arm policy makers with the most recent research and scholarship available.
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Article by Robert C. Whitaker in the June issue of the Archives of Pediatrics
& Adolescent Medicine suggests that Hispanic 3-year-olds have a higher
prevalence of obesity than black or white 3-year-olds.
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Sara McLanahan and Irv Garfinkel head the Fragile Families Study, a groundbreaking research project now in its fifth year. The (married) couple were recently invited to the UK by the relationship research charity One Plus One to discuss their findings and the implications for Britain.
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To celebrate the public policy efforts of both institutions and the ongoing partnership between these organizations, a Washington, DC event will examine some of the nation's most critical problems at home and abroad
including policy options for encouraging marriage, reducing poverty and inequality, and improving the future of children.
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Cutting calories: The carbonated-beverage makers to help can cafeteria consumption.
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Christina Paxson, a CRCW Research Associate, Princeton University professor of public affairs and editor of
the current Future of Children journal on childhood obesity was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor article
on overweight kids as saying that successful programs "engage kids in learning about healthy food."
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Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology and CRCW research associate, was featured in the Indianapolis Star editorial, "A Generation of Lost Boys." Click here to read the full story.
Western societies have found that children from father-absent homes manifest a number of internalising and externalising problem behaviours, including sadness and depression, delinquency, aggression, sex role difficulties, early initiation of sexual activity and teen pregnancy, as well as poor social and adaptive functioning and low self-esteem as reported by Princeton sociologist, Sara McLanahan.
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Education World gave Future of Children an A+ and reviews the website and journal.
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Pediatricians, parents, and policymakers alike are concerned about high and rising rates of obesity among U.S. children and are now recognizing the need for action. Over the past three decades, the share of children who are overweight or obese has doubled, from 15 percent in the 1970s to nearly 30 percent today, while the share of children who are obese has tripled to from 5 to 15 percent.
Click here to read the full story.Photographers, Joan Liftin and Craig Terry, captured images of environmental factors that have aided the problem in childhood obesity for the photo exhibit on view at the Bernstein Gallery of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs through March 31. The photography exhibit is on display in conjunction with the upcoming release of the latest edition of "The Future of Children" — a joint project between Princeton University and the Brookings Institution. The project oversees the research and publication of journals that delve into a particular issue as it applies to children's policy, and the March 14 edition takes on childhood obesity.
Click here to read the full story."The Future of Children," a journal of the Brookings Institution and Princeton University, describes how marriage has always been a public
issue, but public policy changes as trends in marriage change. Homosexual marriage is the hot button in the current debate, but those who pay for culturalchanges are, as always, the children.
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Although marriage has been subjected to many challenges over the last 50 years, it continues to be the most effective institution in which to raise children. Adults, children and American society stand to reap large gains if it can be strengthened and restored as the center of family life and the norm for parents.
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The Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study brings together students and faculty at Princeton University, Columbia
University, and University of Pennsylvania who are conducting research on unwed parents and the effects of parental resources and public policies on children’s well-being.
The study, which released its third wave of data last month, has spawned dozens of theses and dissertations by students and more than 70 academic papers by scholars at Princeton and at many other universities.
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An extensive review of marriage research released in September by the Brookings Institution and Princeton found that children fare best when raised by their married, biological parents
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Government should take a more active role in promoting “stable, low-conflict” families, researchers from the Woodrow Wilson School and the Brookings Institution have concluded.
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An article by Viviana Zelizer, a CRCW associate, appeared on September 24 in The Guardian. How do you put a price on a life, and should we be paying our mothers?
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Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins - CRCW associates - announce the opening of a new research center on children at the Brookings Institution.
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A joint project of the Wilson School and the Brookings Institute recently concluded that "children benefit from growing up with two married biological parents."
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The share of children living with a single parent is 27 percent, up from 12 percent in 1970; the teen birth rate, though lower than a decade ago, still "exceeds that of other industrialized nations''; and "one of every three children -- and seven of every 10 black children -- are born outside marriage." Poor children, needing the most family support, have the least. This alone ensures that, even if we make added progress, poverty will repeatedly be rediscovered.
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The Reuters article "Marriage Boosts Prosperity, Helps Children," featured research findings from the latest edition of the Future of Children policy journal, jointly published by the WWS and the Brookings Institution.
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A report in USA Today suggests that staying together for the sake of the children might not be such a bad idea after all.
Children from two-parent families are better off emotionally, socially and economically, according to a review of marriage research released September 13th in The Future of Children journal.
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More than half the children in the nation's capital are raised by single parents and, in response, Congress is considering a controversial plan to pay a marriage bonus for low-income couples who tie the knot.
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In conjunction with the release of the fall issue of the Future of Children journal, on "Marriage and Child Well-Being," the Brookings Institution and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School hosted a public forum
at the Brookings Institution's Falk Auditorium on barriers to marriage among low-income couples and strategies and programs which may strengthen marriages in this population.
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Marta Tienda, CRCW associate, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times article, "After Katrina, A Crisis of Loss" about the long term effects of the hurricane on families and children.
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Marta Tienda's study is part of the spotlight featured in this Fort Worth Star-Telegram article on admission to the state's largest public university. Minority advocacy groups, high schools and parents all want an admissions process that favors them.
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When it comes to hiring ex-offenders, employers will say one thing but do another,
Devah Pager, an assistant professor at Princeton, found in a new study.
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Up to 80 percent of children in foster care show signs of depression, aggression or withdrawal, according to
The Future of Children, a publication of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution. Many have trouble in the classroom because they are forced to change schools, often multiple times.
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Elisabeth Donahue, associate editor of “The Future of Children,” leads a graduate seminar that focuses on childhood obesity, the topic for the spring 2006 issue of the journal.
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