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COMMITTEE ON POPULATION
RONALD D. LEE (Chair),
Departments of Demography and Economics, University of California, Berkeley
CAROLINE H. BLEDSOE,
Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University
JOHN BONGAARTS,
The Population Council, New York
JOHN B. CASTERLINE,
The Population Council, New York
LINDA G. MARTIN,
RAND, Santa Monica, California
JANE MENKEN,
Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder
ROBERT A. MOFFITT,
Department of Economics, Brown University
MARK R. MONTGOMERY,
Department of Economics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, and The Population Council, New York
W. HENRY MOSLEY,
Department of Population Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University
JAMES P. SMITH,
RAND, Santa Monica, California
BETH J. SOLDO,
Department of Demography, Georgetown University
MARTA TIENDA,
Population Research Center, University of Chicago
AMY O. TSUI,
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
JOHN HAAGA, Director
BARNEY COHEN, Senior Program Officer
LATANYA JOHNSON, Senior Project Assistant
JOEL ROSENQUIST, Senior Project Assistant (until May 1997)
BOARD ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES
JACK P. SHONKOFF (Chair),
Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University
DAVID V.B. BRITT,
Children's Television Workshop, New York
LARRY BUMPASS,
Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin
FERNANDO A. GUERRA,
San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, Texas
BERNARD GUYER,
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins University
ALETHA C. HUSTON,
Department of Human Ecology, University of Texas, Austin
RENEE R. JENKINS,
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Howard University Hospital
SARA McLANAHAN,
Office of Population Research, Princeton University
ROBERT MICHAEL,
Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
PAUL NEWACHECK,
Institute of Health Policy Studies and Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
MARTHA PHILLIPS,
The Concord Coalition, Washington, DC
JULIUS B. RICHMOND,
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University Medical School
TIMOTHY M. SANDOS,
TCI Central, Inc., Denver
DEBORAH STIPEK,
Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles
DIANA TAYLOR,
Women's Health Program, Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
GAIL WILENSKY,
Project Hope, Bethesda, Maryland
EVAN CHARNEY,
Council, Institute of Medicine
(liaison member)
RUTH T. GROSS,
Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine
(liaison member)
ELEANOR E. MACCOBY,
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
(liaison member)
DEBORAH A. PHILLIPS, Director
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
Christine Bachrach,
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Rebecca Blank,
Northwestern University
Christopher Botsko,
Child Trends
Larry Bumpass,
University of Wisconsin
Lindsay Chase-Lansdale,
University of Chicago
Andrew Cherlin,
Johns Hopkins University
Thomas Corbett,
University of Wisconsin
Phoebe Cottingham,
Rockefeller Foundation
Janet Currie,
University of California, Los Angeles
William Darity,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jacqueline Darroch,
Alan Guttmacher Institute
William Dickens,
Brookings Institution
Gregory Duncan,
Northwestern University
Jennifer Eichberger,
Brookings Institution
Kristina Hanson,
Kaiser Family Foundation
Ronald Haskins,
Subcommittee on Human Resources, House Ways and Means Committee, U.S. Congress
Wade Horn,
National Fatherhood Initiative
Joseph Hotz,
University of Chicago
Kelleen Kaye,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Jacob Klerman,
RAND, Santa Monica, California
Elisa Koff,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Ronald Lee,
University of California, Berkeley
Daniel Lichter,
Pennsylvania State University
Rebecca Maynard,
University of Pennsylvania
Robert Moffitt,
Johns Hopkins University
Donald Oellerich,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
William O'Hare,
Annie E. Casey Foundation
June O'Neill,
Congressional Budget Office
Wendell Primus,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
William Raub,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Howard Rolston,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Anne Rosewater,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Isabel Sawhill,
Urban Institute
Susanne Stoiber,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Cathy Trost,
Casey Journalism Center for Children and Families
Alan Yaffe,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Acknowledgments
This report summarizes presentations and discussions at the Workshop on Effects of Welfare on Reproductive Behavior and the Family, organized by the Committee on Population and the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, in Washington, DC, May 2–3, 1996. Some of the papers prepared for the workshop will be published in revised form in an edited volume by the National Academy Press. The workshop was funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and by the Kellogg Fund of the Governing Board of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.
Robert Moffitt of the Johns Hopkins University, a member of both the Committee on Population and the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, led the planning for the workshop and chaired it. John Haaga, director of the Committee on Population, led the staff work and served as rapporteur at the workshop. The committee and the board are very grateful to Michael Laracy and William O'Hare of the Annie E. Casey Foundation for their encouragement and intellectual input, and to Deborah Phillips, director of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families, for her suggestions. Anne Bridgman and Faith Mitchell gave an early draft of this summary a careful reading and made many useful comments. Joel Rosenquist of the Committee on Population staff provided superb assistance throughout, both in organizing the workshop and in handling successive changes to the manuscript. Trang Ta and LaTanya Johnson guided the manuscript through later stages.
Most of all, of course, we are grateful to all the participants in the workshop