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Nola du Toit
Kate Bachtell
Cathy Haggerty
Coming and Going: The Effect of Household Composition on the Economic Wellbeing of Families and Children
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Current Literature
• Household structure and wellbeing of children• Economic measures (poverty, material hardship)
• Family structure matters for child wellbeing• Single v. cohabiting v. married
• Instability matters for child wellbeing• Union formation or dissolution
• Focus on parents• Anyone missing?
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Example: Erin
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Research Questions
• Are there different types of household composition beyond the traditional?
• Do complex household compositions matter?
• Is there change in these complex household compositions over time?
• Does this change matter?
• Are some households more affected by change than others?
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Data
• Making Connections survey
• Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Community initiatives
• 10 sites
• Low income households
• Longitudinal
• Baseline 2002-2004
• Wave 2 2005-2007
• Wave 3 2008-2011
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Data
• Information on variety of topics• People in household, age, gender, employment• Relationships to one another• Children • Economic wellbeing
• Roster matching across waves• People coming and going in households
• Waves 2 and 3 for 6 sites
• Focus on households with children at Wave 2 (n=1964)
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Focus Variable:Household Type
• Relationship of adult (18+) to focus child + number of adults
• Single parents
• Two parents
• Parent/grandparent only
• Parent/any combination
• Non-parent households
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Dependent Variables:Economic Measures
• Income Per Capita• Household income/number of people in household
(log)
• Public Assistance Usage (none/any)• Food stamps, rent subsidies, section 8, public housing
• Economic hardship (none/any)• No money for food, not pay rent, phone cut off, not fill
prescriptions
• Home Ownership (not own/own)• Owned by someone in household
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Dependent Variables:Instability
• Change in household type
• e.g. Two parent -> parent/grandparent only
• Decrease in income per capita
• Same or less than at Wave 2
• Increase in public assistance usage
• Increase in economic hardship
• Decrease in home ownership
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Controls
• Income per capita
• Public assistance
• Average age of adults
• All female household
• Race (proxy)
• Hispanic
• At least one employed adult
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Findings
• Are there different types of household composition beyond the traditional?
• Do complex household compositions matter?
• Is there change in these complex household compositions over time?
• Does this change matter?
• Are some households more affected by change than others?
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Findings
• Are there different types of household composition beyond the traditional? YES!
• Do complex household compositions matter? YES!
• Is there change in these complex household compositions over time? YES!
• Does this change matter? YES!
• Are some households more affected by change than others? YES!
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TYPES OF RELATIONSHIP OF ADULTS TO CHILDREN
UNWEIGHTED N
WEIGHTED %
Total 1964 100%
Husband/wife 1 <1%
Parent 1800 90%
Extended family 194 12%
Sibling 212 12%
Grandparent 333 22%
Non-related 119 6%
Are there types of composition beyond the traditional?
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Unweighted Frequency
Weighted Percentage
1964 100
535 21
652 34
166 10
447 25
164 10
Types of Household
Total
Single parent only
Non-parent households
Two parents only
Parent and grandparent only
Parent and any other combination
Are there types of composition beyond the traditional?
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Do complex households matter? Economic Measures
ECONOMIC MEASURES
Unweighted n 535 652 166 447 164Income per capita
Mean $5,582.38 $8,332.75 $5,826.98 $6,228.48 $5,842.24Std dev $24,155.99 $32,191.50 $30,210.04 $29,364.12 $21,863.27Median $3,500.00 $6,428.57 $3,750.00 $5,000.00 $5,000.00
Income per capita (log) Mean 8.2 8.7 8.3 8.0 8.4
Std dev 4.5 4.5 4.8 4.8 4.0Median 8.2 8.8 8.2 8.5 8.5
Public assistance % no assistance 29 71 41 55 48
% one or more assistance 71 29 59 45 52Economic hardship
% no economic hardship 35 50 39 42 45% one or more hardship 65 50 61 58 55
Home ownership% not own home 83 52 40 51 48
% own home 17 48 60 49 52
Single parent only
Two parents only
Parent/ grandparent
only
Parent/any other combi-
nation
Non-parent households
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Is there change over time in complex households?
% EXPERIENCED CHANGE IN COMPOSITION BETWEEN WAVES
Household composition at Wave 2
Total (1964) (535) (652) (166) (447) (164)
50 38 39 63*** 58*** 83***
Single parent only
Two parents only (ref)
Parent/ grandparent
only
Parent/any other combi-
nationNon-parent households
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Does change matter? Decrease in income per capita
Model 1 Model 2 Model 1 Model 2 Model 1 Model 2 Model 1 Model 2 Model 1 Model 2
Intercept -0.12** -0.92*** -0.34*** 1.27*** -0.31*** 1.70*** -0.19*** 1.57*** 0.59 1.31***
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
0.41*** 0.40*** 0.22*** 0.29*** 0.18* 0.05 -0.27*** -0.23*** -0.36 -0.26*
-2 log likelihood 9609.8 9089.2 14535.9 14044.1 4111.1 3517.7 10603.3 9967.1 4128.9 3603.3df 1 9 1 9 1 9 1 9 1 9Model 2 includes control variables
DECREASE IN INCOME PER CAPITA (log)
Single parent only (535)
Two parents only (652)
Parent and grand-parent
only (166)
Parent and any other
combination (447)
Non-parent households (164)
No change in composition (ref)
Change in composition
p<0.05, **p<0.01, p<0.001
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Findings
• Many more types of households than accounted for in current research
• Many people coming and going
• Mixed results – no pattern
• 10% are non-parent households
• Introduction of another adult for single parent households is not a good idea
• Need more research on non-traditional households
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Limitations
• Data not representative of nation's poor
• No higher income cases
• Missing a lot of variation within groups
• Expand control groups
• Interaction effects
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Conclusions
• Look at big picture, not just parents
• Need more research
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Thank You!
Nola du Toit: [email protected]
Kate Bachtell: [email protected]
Cathy Haggerty: [email protected]
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