ArticleSocial forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation2016
Beyond Boys' Bad Behavior: Paternal Incarceration and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood.
Article in Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Lost support, lost skills: Children's cognitive outcomes following grandparental death.Social science research · 2023Article
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- Parental Arrest and Child Behavior: Differential Role of Executive Functioning among Racial Subgroups.Journal of child and family studies · 2022Article
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- COVID-19 Inspired Relational Telemental Health Services for Incarcerated Individuals and Their Families.Contemporary family therapy · 2021Article
- Beyond the Classroom: The Intergenerational Effect of Incarceration on Children's Academic and Nonacademic School-Related Outcomes in High School.Socius : sociological research for a dynamic world · 2020Article
- Schools as Surveilling Institutions? Paternal Incarceration, System Avoidance, and Parental Involvement in Schooling.American sociological review · 2017Article
- Parental Incarceration and Child Well-being: Conceptual and Practical Concerns Regarding the Use of Propensity Scores.Socius : sociological research for a dynamic worldArticle
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Abstract
A growing number of American school-aged children have incarcerated or formally incarcerated parents necessitating a more comprehensive understanding of the intergenerational effects of mass imprisonment. Using the Fragile Families Study, I assess whether having an incarcerated father impacts children's cognitive skill development into middle childhood. While previous studies have primarily found effects for boys' behavior problems, matching models and sensitivity analyses demonstrate that experiencing paternal incarceration by age 9 is associated with lower cognitive skills for both boys and girls and these negative effects hold net of a pre-paternal incarceration measure of child cognitive ability. Moreover, I estimate that paternal incarceration explains between 2 and 15 percent of the Black-White achievement gap at age 9. These findings represent new outcomes of importance and suggest that paternal incarceration may play an even larger role in the production of intergenerational inequalities for American children than previously documented.
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