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Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Educational Outcomes for Youth
This research examines the effects of parental marital quality and the quality of the parent-child relationship on the educational progress of adolescents. Previous research indicates that family structure and economic capacity have significant effects on educational achievement and high school graduation rates. Few studies, however, have examined the effects of the quality of the parental…
Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Adolescent Religiousity and Religious Practice
This report focuses on family processes and adolescent religious attendance and personal religiosity among youth who were raised primarily in married-parent families. The study used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 cohort (NLSY97). Sample includes only youth living in married-parent families at the time of the first wave of data collection.
Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Adolescent Religiousity and Religious Practice
Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships Effects on Adolescent Religiosity and Religious Practice December 2008 Prepared by: Randal D. Day, Hinckley Jones-Sanpei, and Jessica Price Brigham Young University with: Dennis K. Orthner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Elizabeth Hair and Kristin Anderson Moore, Child Trends Kelleen Kaye, NORC at the University of Chicago
Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Educational Outcomes for Youth
Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Educational Outcomes for Youth December 2008 Prepared by: Dennis K. Orthner and Hinckley Jones-Sanpei, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillWith: Randal D. Day, Brigham Young University Elizabeth Hair and Kristin Anderson Moore, Child Trends, Inc. Kelleen Kaye, NORC Project Page:Relationship Strengths in Married Families
Continuation of Research on Consumer Directed Health Plans: Does Access to Transparent Provider Quality and Cost Information Affect Health Care Cost and Utilization of Preventive Services?
Final Technical Report for DHHS Contract HHSP23320054301ER Please do not circulate without permission of the authors or the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Stephen T. Parente, Ph.D. Roger Feldman, Ph.D. CARLSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT__________________
Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI): The Promise and Challenge of Using Volunteers to Provide Community-Based Marriage Education
The goal of the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI) is to make information about the skills needed to build and sustain healthy marriages broadly available throughout the state.В To pursue the mission of changing the culture of marriage and divorce, OMI leaders decided to engage the support of grass-roots volunteers in communities across the state.В By the end of 2007, over 120,000…
Volume Growth in Medicare. An Investigation of Ten Physicians' Services
By: Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Steven Zuckerman, Robert Berenson, Anant Patel, Teryl Nuckols RAND Health / Urban Institute
Regulation of the Individual Health Insurance Market
Several proposals to increase health coverage for the currently uninsured rely on encouragements to utilize and potentially expand the individual insurance market. In broadening health insurance coverage, it is important to understand the regulatory environment under which these proposals would be implemented. This paper reports on the unique features of the regulation in the individual market…
Analysis of Risk Communication Strategies and Approaches with At-Risk Populations to Enhance Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery: Final Report
In this report, the authors present the results of an assessment that involved review of the literature on emergency preparedness risk communication and public health messaging strategies; the compilation of educational and outreach materials for emergency preparedness communication with vulnerable populations; and site visits in three states and the Washington, DC, area to identify gaps in the…
Analysis of Risk Communication Strategies and Approaches with At-Risk Populations to Enhance Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery: Final Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Volume Growth in Medicare. An Investigation of Ten Physicians' Services
Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) is a target rate of growth in spending for physicians’ services. Payments for physicians’ services are supposed to automatically adjust in response to actual spending falling either above or below the target. But since 2002, when the SGR policy led to a 4.8 percent reduction in payment rates, policymakers have been searching for ways to avoid fee…
Analysis of Risk Communication Strategies and Approaches with At-Risk Populations to Enhance Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery: Final Report
This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-03-0010 between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and the RAND Corporation. For additional information about this subject, you can visit the DALTCP home page at http://aspe.hhs.gov/_/office_specific/daltcp.cfm or contact the ASPE Project Officer, Emily Rosenoff, at…
The Regulation of the Individual Health Insurance Market
IntroductionAlthough the majority of Americans with health insurance obtain their coverage through group health plans offered through their employers, many individuals obtain their coverage through the nongroup (or individual) insurance market. Currently almost 18 million persons, or almost seven percent of the United States nonelderly (under age 65) population, obtain coverage through…
Research Brief
Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI): A Process Evaluation: Research Brief
In the late 1990s the State of Oklahoma, recognizing the economic and social consequences of its high rates of divorce and non-marital childbearing, undertook an innovative strategy to strengthen families.В At the direction of the Governor, the state initiated an effort to reduce divorce and decrease non-marital childbearing.В This pioneering effort became the Oklahoma Marriage…
Research Brief
Role of Faith-Based and Community Organizations in Providing Relief and Recovery Services after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Research Brief
This Research Brief examines the relief and recovery services provided by faith-based and community organizations (FBCOs) in the Gulf Coast region after hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. The study included a telephone survey of 202 FBCOs that provided services and case studies of eight organizations.В This brief summarizes the findings from the full report The Role of Faith-Based…
Effects of Holding Assets on Social and Economic Outcomes of Families: A Review of Theory and Evidence
This report provides a conceptual framework on the effects of asset holding and reviews the empirical literature based on this framework. The report distills the main findings on how assets influence economic, social, psychological, and child well-being and provides empirical support for the benefits of asset building. [39 PDF pages]