About the Editor

About the Contributors

Robert M. Goerge is associate director and research fellow at the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago and codirects the National Foster Care Data Archive funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Children's Bureau. Dr. Goerge also has served as a consultant to 15 states on the development of improved information systems and the use of administrative data for analysis purposes. He has published widely on service receipt of children and families, foster care, and the creation of research databases.

Angela Dungee Greene is a senior research analyst at Child Trends, Inc. Ms. Green works with the Family and Child Wellbeing Research Network, which was established by the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development. She has collaborated on several publications and professional presentations pertaining to various social, economic, and health-related issues of African-American families.

Jeffrey Grogger is an associate professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He studies issues related to poverty, including early childbearing, youth crime, welfare incentives, and the effects of school quality on wages. His publications include "The Economic Consequences of Unwed Motherhood: Using Twin Births as a Natural Experiment," American Economic Review, December 1994 (with Stephen G. Bronars). He is a research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and serves as co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources.

Robert H. Haveman is John Bascom Professor of economics and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also a faculty member in the Institute for Research on Poverty and the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs. His research is in the area of the economics of poverty and social policy, where he has published widely. His most recent book is Succeeding Generations: On the Effects of Investments in Children (with Barbara Wolfe), and is published by the Russell Sage Foundation.

V. Joseph Hotz is a professor at the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. His areas of specialization are labor economics, economic demography, evaluation of the impact of social programs, and applied econometrics. He is co-editor of the Journal of Labor Economics and his numerous published articles include "A Simulation Estimator for Dynamic Models of Discrete Choice," Review of Economic Studies, April 1994 (co-author).

Bong Joo Lee is a research fellow at the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. He was previously an assistant professor at the Boston University School of Social Work. His research interests are the statistical modelling of the patterns of human service use, issues of childhood poverty, and demography of children and families.

Susan Williams McElroy is an assistant professor of economics and education policy at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, she was a visiting scholar in the department of economics at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include the consequences of teenage childbearing, women in the labor market, and poverty.

Kristin Anderson Moore is executive director, and director of research, of Child Trends, Inc. A social psychologist, Dr. Moore has been with Child Trends, Inc., since 1982, studying the determinants of early sexual activity and parenthood, the consequences of adolescent parenthood, trends in child and family well-being, and the effects of family structure and social change on children. She is also a member of the Board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy, where she chairs the Task Force on Effective Programs and Research.

Donna Ruane Morrison joined the faculty at Georgetown University in fall 1995 with a joint appointment in the Graduate Program in Public Policy and the Department of Demography. Prior to Georgetown University, she was a senior research associate at Child Trends, Inc. Dr. Morrison has published articles examining the short- and long-term effects of marital conflict and divorce on child well-being.

Maria Perozek is completing her doctorate in economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her primary research concerns intergenerational transfers and wealth accumulation over the life cycle.

Elaine Peterson is an assistant professor at California State University, Stanislaus. She has been a research assistant in the Financial Structure Section of the Federal Reserve Board and the Institute for Research on Poverty. Her research includes work on neighborhood quality and children's success, and on policy-related determinants of teen nonmarital childbearing.

Seth G. Sanders is an assistant professor of economics and public policy at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. His areas of research interest include poverty issues, applied econometrics, and labor economics. His recent articles include "The Decision to Work by Married Immigrant Women: Evidence from Asian Women," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 1993 (co-author).

Robert J. Willis is professor of economics at the University of Michigan, where he also is a research scientist at the Institute for Social Research and research associate of the Population Studies Center. Willis is currently the principal investigator on two large longitudinal surveys, the Health and Retirement Survey and the Assets and Health of the Oldest Old Survey, which are collecting data on Americans over age 50. He is an authority on the economics of the family, marriage, and fertility, labor economics, human capital and population, and economic development.