Explored effects of unemployment on stress with 44 rural nonfarm families. Results revealed that increases in financial arguments were more predictive of stress than were actual changes in financial management, especially for wives. Avoidance coping was predictive of stress and mediated relationship between financial arguments and stress for both…

Examined income and food and housing expenditures for the last married year for couples and then five years after marital dissolution in female (N=5,000) respondents to the University of Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Results showed that incomes and expenditures for food, but not for housing, dropped after marital dissolution. (LLL)

Discusses the nature of family resource redistribution through the life cycle. Proposes an underlying linear redistribution principle and the availability of transaction capacities as a modifying principle. Capacities of different kinds are presumed to decline at different rates in the later stages of the life cycle. (JAC)

This report uses a recent survey--the 1997 National Survey of America's Families, or NSAF--to look at the child care expenses of working families with children under age 13. The report begins by describing child care expenses of America's families at the national level and then turns to analysis of 12 focal states. For both the national-level and…

Describes the work of Future Homemakers of America in helping disaster victims stabilize their families in the aftermath of Hurricane Agnes. (MU)

The ultimate goal of consumer education is becoming widely accepted as developing the individual's ability to make and execute those decisions concerning the use of his resources. (Author)

Examined the impact of the AFDC mandatory work registration policy on AFDC clients and their families. Data showed 19 percent reported positive and 28 percent reported negative individual effects; five percent reported positive and 24 percent reported negative family effects. (Author)

Based on 1970 data, Blacks were found to receive less residential return than Whites on their individual resources. Blacks resided in inferior neighborhoods despite similar resources. The primary effect of race on residence was as a channeling device, causing Blacks to be sorted into high percent Black neighborhoods. (Author/GC)

Analyzes UK PISA data to test two central hypotheses in the "school mix" theory of student achievement. Findings suggest that the school composition effect is sometimes an artifact of statistical procedures and caused by "unmeasured" within-SES school selection for noncognitive dispositions and variable family resources within…

Describes the Bush administration's recently proposed economic stimulus package and the Democrats' rival tax-cutting plan, and discusses the impact of the proposed reduction or elimination of taxes on corporate dividends on middle-income families. Considers the extent to which families would benefit from the administration's package and reiterates…

In a 1985 Wisconsin survey, 1,003 respondents made child support judgments for 3 hypothetical family vignettes. Their awards generally fit a system in which parents' contributions are proportional to their resources, a system based on everyday principles of fairness. Contains 61 references. (SV)

Data from the 1984-86 Consumer Expenditure Survey were used to examine effects of a wife's labor force participation on family income and expenditures. Findings indicate that families with employed wives spend significantly more on food away from home, child care, women's apparel, and gasoline than do families in which the wife stays at home. (CH)

Outlines the conceptual frameworks of consequentialist and nonconsequentialist ethics as examples of two common and competing moral perspectives. Suggests possibilities for applications of ethics to issues that are common in consumer and family economics curricula. (Author/JOW)

Data on high school students' college choice was used to estimate the effects of attending different college types on labor market outcomes. Even controlling for selection effects, there was strong evidence of a significant economic return to elite private colleges, an effect that has increased over time. (SK)

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…