TY - JOUR
T1 - Extended household transitions, race/ethnicity, and early childhood cognitive outcomes
AU - Mollborn, Stefanie
AU - Fomby, Paula
AU - Dennis, Jeff A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is based on work supported by a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Public Health Service (#1 APRPA006015-01-00). Research support was also provided by the NIH/NICHD funded CU Population Center (R24HD066613). The authors thank Peter Lovegrove, Patrick Krueger, and Christie Sennott for their helpful comments and Aakriti Shrestha for her editorial assistance.
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - Beyond mothers' union status transitions, other adults' transitions into and out of the household contribute to family instability, particularly in early childhood. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (. N≅. 8550), this study examines associations between extended household transitions and age 2 cognitive development. A substantial minority of toddlers experiences these transitions, and their consequences vary by household member type, entry versus exit, and race/ethnicity. Extended household transitions predict lower cognitive scores for white children, but the selection of low-socioeconomic status families into extended households explains these disparities. Grandparent transitions predict significantly higher cognitive scores for African American and Latino children than whites, and some " other adult" transitions predict higher scores for Latinos than African Americans and whites. Extended household transitions' consequences are independent of co-occurring residential moves and partner transitions. Findings suggest that studying extended household transitions is useful for understanding children's early development, and their consequences vary by race/ethnicity.
AB - Beyond mothers' union status transitions, other adults' transitions into and out of the household contribute to family instability, particularly in early childhood. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (. N≅. 8550), this study examines associations between extended household transitions and age 2 cognitive development. A substantial minority of toddlers experiences these transitions, and their consequences vary by household member type, entry versus exit, and race/ethnicity. Extended household transitions predict lower cognitive scores for white children, but the selection of low-socioeconomic status families into extended households explains these disparities. Grandparent transitions predict significantly higher cognitive scores for African American and Latino children than whites, and some " other adult" transitions predict higher scores for Latinos than African Americans and whites. Extended household transitions' consequences are independent of co-occurring residential moves and partner transitions. Findings suggest that studying extended household transitions is useful for understanding children's early development, and their consequences vary by race/ethnicity.
KW - Demography
KW - Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort
KW - Early childhood
KW - Extended households
KW - Family structure transitions
KW - Household composition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84863094893&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.04.002
DO - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.04.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 23017924
AN - SCOPUS:84863094893
SN - 0049-089X
VL - 41
SP - 1152
EP - 1165
JO - Social Science Research
JF - Social Science Research
IS - 5
ER -