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Peer reviewedRodgers, Joseph Lee; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Two studies of twin, sibling, and cousin pairs among children attempted to extend a model, called DF analysis, which separates hereditary and shared environmental influences. First study supported the validity of DF analysis applied to kinship height and weight data. The second study showed that spanking, reading, and quality of home environment…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Body Weight, Children, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewedKowaleski-Jones, Lori; Duncan, Greg J. – Child Development, 1999
Used data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to model developmental trajectories across middle childhood. Found that individual trajectories were extremely diverse in level and sometimes in slope. Compared to girls, boys had heterogeneous slopes for math and behavior problems. Compared to boys, girls showed a significantly higher degree of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Elementary Education
Direct linkNievar, M. Angela; Luster, Tom – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2006
In accordance with McLoyd's model of African American children's development, we examined the linkages among family income, maternal psychological distress, marital conflict, parenting, and children's outcomes in early and middle childhood, using a sample of 591 African American children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Income…
Descriptors: African American Family, Models, Family Financial Resources, Family Income
Download full textNievar, M. Angela; Luster, Tom – 2003
Based on McLoyd's (1990) model of African American children's development, this study examined the linkages between poverty, maternal psychological distress, marital conflict, the home environment, and children's outcomes among a sample of 805 African American 4- to 9-year-olds whose families were interviewed in 1992 as part of the National…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Black Youth
Tanner, Julian; Davies, Scott; O'Grady, Bill – 1999
Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) were used to identify the long-term effects of youth delinquency on education and employment. The study utilized data on 1,452 males and 1,397 females who were initially interviewed for the NLSY in 1979 and data collected on the same sample in 1990-1992. The 1990-1992 data set contained…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Crime, Delinquency, Educational Attainment
Lochner, Lance – 1999
A dynamic model of decisions to work, invest in human capital, and commit crime was developed and examined. By making all three activities endogenous, the model explains why older, more intelligent, and more educated workers tend to commit fewer property crimes of some types than others. The model includes the following predictions: (1) policies…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Crime
