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1. Staying in School: Maternal Employment and the Timing of Black and White Daughters' School Exit.

Author

Wolfer, Loreen T. and Moen, Phyllis

Abstract

Examines how temporal and status aspects of mothers' jobs during daughters' early childhood, preadolescence, and adolescence affect rate that daughters leave school. Studied 246 white and 188 black daughters aged 18-23. Findings suggest that part-time maternal employment during any point in childhood increases likelihood that black, but not white, daughters will remain in school. (FC)

Published
1996

2. Examining Lives in Context: Perspectives on the Ecology of Human Development.

Author

American Psychological Association, Washington, DC., Moen, Phyllis, Moen, Phyllis, and American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.

Abstract

Extending the work of behavioral scientist Urie Bronfenbrenner on the social and contextual factors influencing human development, this collection of essays, from scholars in a range of disciplines, shows how Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory and research have transformed the way many social and behavioral scientists approach, think about, and study human beings and their environments. The articles are grouped into five sections dealing with the dynamics of individual development, historical and social time, the multiple contexts of human development, the importance of process, and reflections and new directions. Each of the sections includes an introduction by Glen H. Elder, Jr., Kurt Luscher, Luscher, Elder, and Phyllis Moen, respectively. Following a general introduction (Moen) on Bronfenbrenner's theories and on the themes and organization of this volume, the articles are: (1) "Individual Development: A Holistic, Integrated Model" (David Magnusson); (2) "Understanding Individual Differences in Environmental-Risk Exposure (Michael Rutter and others); (3) "The Life Course Paradigm: Social Change and Individual Development" (Glen H. Elder, Jr.); (4) "Social Structure and Personality through Time and Space" (Melvin L. Kohn); (5) "Linked Lives: A Transgenerational Approach to Resilience" (Phyllis Moen and Mary Ann Erickson); (6) "Taking Time Seriously: Social Change, Social Structure, and Human Lives" (Duane F. Alwin); (7) "Differentiating among Social Contexts: By Spatial Features, Forms of Participation, and Social Contracts" (Jacqueline J. Goodnow); (8) "A Bioecological Model of Intellectual Development" (Stephen J Ceci and Helene A. Hembrooke); (9) "The Two Sexes and their Social Systems" (Eleanor E. Maccoby); (10) "Gender, Contexts, and Turning Points in Adults' Lives" (John A. Clausen); (11) "Social Ecology over Time and Space" (Robert B. Cairns and Beverley D. Cairns); (12) "Authoritative Parenting and Adolescent Adjustment: An Ecological Journey" (Laurence Steinberg and others); (13) "Children in Families in Communities: Risk and Intervention in the Bronfenbrenner Tradition" (Jeanne Brooks-Gunn); (14) "Jobless Ghettos and the Social Outcomes of Youngsters" (William Julius Wilson); (15) "Expanding the Ecology of Human Development: An Evolutionary Perspective" (Jay Belsky); (16) "'Homo Interpretans': On the Relevance of Perspectives, Knowledge, and Beliefs in the Ecology of Human Development" (Kurt Luscher); (17) "The Bioecological Model from a Life Course Perspective: Reflections of a Participant Observer (Urie Bronfenbrenner); and (18) "Developmental Ecology through Space and Time: A Future Perspective" (Urie Bronfenbrenner). A bibliography of the published writings of Bronfenbrenner, compiled by Kurt Luscher and Gerri Jones, is appended. (HTH)

Published
1995

3. Unemployment, Public Policy, and Families: Forecasts for the 1980s.

Author

Moen, Phyllis

Abstract

Speculates about the consequences of unemployment for families in the 1980s, using data from the 1975 recession and the Great Depression. Found that families with preschoolers as well as Black and single-parent families were most vulnerable to financial loss and that government income transfers were ineffective. (JAC)

Published
1983

4. Unemployment of Family Breadwinners: The Recession of 1975.

Author

Moen, Phyllis

Abstract

Using 1975 and 1976 data from the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study examines the significance of the 1975 recession for families with children under 18. This study attempted to ascertain what families with children were most susceptible to having an unemployed breadwinner in 1975 and why some family heads were more susceptible to unemployment than others. First, the distribution of jobless breadwinners is described. Nearly 17 percent of the sample of families had a jobless breadwinner in 1975. Families with preschoolers, black families, and male-headed families at every life cycle stage were most likely to have their major breadwinner unemployed. Log linear analytic techniques indicated that life cycle stage, family household type, education of head of household, and county unemployment rates were important in estimating the distribution of unemployment among family breadwinners. When these variables were controlled, the work experience and race of the household head were not found to be significant. Tables and figures of data are included. (Author/MK)

Published
1977

5. Using Log Linear Analysis for Categorical Family Variables.

Author

Moen, Phyllis

Abstract

The Goodman technique of log linear analysis is ideal for family research, because it is designed for categorical (non-quantitative) variables. Variables are dichotomized (for example, married/divorced, childless/with children) or otherwise categorized (for example, level of permissiveness, life cycle stage). Contingency tables are then constructed and analyzed so that variables are cross-classified; estimates of the main effects of each variable, as well as interaction effects, are determined. This technique permits sophisticated (multivariate) analysis of quantitative data, testing of interactions, and examination of the relationships among variables, without designating one as the dependent variable. There are limitations to the Goodman technique, associated with the principal statistics used (Pearson's Chi-square and the likelihood ratio statistic), and with categorizing variables. Logit analysis, a type of log linear analysis, is used to predict a dependent variable. First, the relative importance of race, sex of family head, and life cycle stage in predicting the dependent variable, financial expectation, is examined; second, interaction effects are measured, that is, the existence of a conditional relationship among two or more predictor variables and the dependent variable. The best prediction model included the direct effects of life cycle stage and sex of breadwinner. (CP)

Published
1978

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