Research

The 2Gen team and Cornell Cooperative Extension-Tompkins discuss their research-practice partnership addressing the opioid epidemic.

State-level child welfare policies and practices affect what can be referred, investigated, and substantiated as child maltreatment, and these institutional factors vary across states and over time.

Our findings show the importance of attending to both housing status and household composition when studying children living in doubled-up households.

Initial findings from interviews with parents involved in the Tompkins County Family Treatment Court and Strengthening Families Program.

Over the past two years, Project 2Gen has grown, building collaborations locally, statewide, and nationally

This book examines the impact of inequality on children’s health and education, and offers a blueprint for addressing the impact of inequality among children in economic, sociological, and psychological domains.

In this qualitative study, semistructured, face-to-face interviews were conducted with 123 legislators in 2 states, 32 legislators nominated by colleagues as exemplar research users, and 13 key informants.

We discuss applications of our three key decisions and draw implications for researchers interested in building research‐based, family‐focused public policy.

This report presents findings from seven sessions of the Strengthening Families Program conducted from 2014-2018 by Cornell Cooperative Extension-Tompkins County (CCETC) for parents with open child welfare cases participating in Family Treatment Court.

Gaps in educational outcomes between racial/ethnic and socioeconomic groups persist in the United States, and parental involvement is often cited as an important avenue for improving outcomes among racially/ethnically diverse adolescents.

Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, and Laura Tach propose a radical idea: America’s anti-poverty policy should serve to incorporate, rather than separate, the poor from the rest of society.

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) offers a way to support lower-income families without generating stigma.

These findings suggest that although children in grandfamilies may be at a disadvantage academically and socioemotionally, grandparent caregivers are in many ways similar to other fragile-family mothers.

Has income insecurity increased among U.S. children with the emergence of an employment-based safety net and the polarization of labor markets and family structure?

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) offers tangible and emotional benefits for lower-income Americans.

It’s Not Like I’m Poor examines the costs and benefits of the new work-based safety net, suggesting ways to augment its strengths so that more of the working poor can realize the promise of a middle-class life.

This article reviews the literature on grandparent coresidence and presents new research on children coresiding with grandparents in modern families.

We discuss the implications of our results for the well-being of nonmarital children and the quality of nonmarital relationships faced with high levels of relationship instability and multiple-partner fertility.

This report examines how trends in the opioid crisis have affected New York families and children.

Maureen Waller et al. examine how and why child support debt presents a variety of problems for low-income, non-custodial parents.

Anna Haskins examines how paternal incarceration can be associated with less school-based involvement.

Marianella Casasola and Ana Maria Cañas investigate how parents understand their role in their children’s cognitive development.

Children of undocumented immigrants experience severe disadvantages that impact future success and contributions to social and economic change. Schools can promote well-being by providing safe environments for child and parental engagement.

A two-generation (2Gen) framework emphasizes the importance of considering the whole family when discussing prevention and treatment of opioid addiction.

Lisa McCabe, John Sipple, and Hope Castro examine childcare deserts and the unintended consequences of Universal Pre-K.