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Keeping a Roof Overhead : An Examination of Housing Strategies Among Low-Income White Families in Rural Trailer Parks

Creator:: Barrett-Rivera, Brenda C.
Abstract:: Housing is a critical component of family life, however, keeping a safe and stable roof overhead is increasingly difficult for the approximately 21 million low-income families in the United States (Urban Institute, n.d.; U.S. Census, 2015). Low-income families struggle to keep a roof overhead within the context of rising housing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Appendix B Family Economic Interview Guide………………………74 Appendix C Exit Interview Guide……………………………………..76

Out-of-pocket health care expenditures and household food insecurity among families with children

Creator:: Patton-Lopez, Megan M.
Abstract:: Since the late 1990s accelerated growth in health care spending coupled with a cost shift of health insurance from employers to employees has created an increased financial burden for many families. Past research suggests that financial burden due to out-of-pocket (OOP) health care costs limits access to health care and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: = 0.05 - 1.02). Households with a child in poor health were not more likely to experience food

"Because we didn't have nowhere to go" : residential instability among rural low-income families

Creator:: Ozretich, Robin Nathaniel
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to identify and examine risk and protective factors associated with residential instability within a sample of rural low-income mothers. Residential instability was defined as two or more residential moves within the course of a year. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to compare residentially...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: settings that are likely to influence a rural low- 7 State and National 7 Economic Trends (Macrosystem

Out-migration, income and poverty in nonmetropolitan America

Creator:: Marre, Alexander
Abstract:: Why do rural households leave for urban places? And how does this decision affect their economic well-being? Rural places in the United States have higher poverty and unemployment rates and lower levels of educational attainment relative to urban places. Does leaving a rural place for a city offer a pathway...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: this decision affect their economic well-being? Rural places in the United States have higher

Money and nonmoney incomes of elderly families and individuals : analysis and distribution

Creator:: Olson, Pamela Niemeyer
Abstract:: Resource distribution and adequacy, of elderly individuals and families, was measured by determining an annual dollar value of money and nonmoney economic resources. The nonmoney economic resources were identified as fringe benfits, household production, durable assets, interfamily grants, and community provided goods and services. The data were collected by interviewing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: resources need to be taken into consideration when attempting to measure total family economic well-being

Poverty and child neglect : subtypes of neglect and stress as a mediator

Creator:: Shepherd, Jennifer R.
Abstract:: This study examined the association between poverty and child neglect. The existence of a general association has been established for some time. However, there is much debate, and little detailed research, on the specific processes that create this association. This study focused on the form of neglect that involves the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: neglect (Carter & Myers, 2007). Berger (2006) found that poor families who had more economic resources

How Does Income Inequality Affect Community Economic Resilience?

Creator:: Wu, Xiurou
Abstract:: The Great Recession, which resulted from the burst of housing bubble and officially lasted from December 2007 to June 2009, started as a national recession in the U.S. and then affected countries across the world. Economies reacted differently to this recession and those systems that lost fewer jobs and/or recovered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Department of Applied Economic at Oregon State University, where I learned and benefited a lot during the

The Relationship between Retirement Timing and Mortality : A Population-Based Longitudinal Study among Older Adults in the United States

Creator:: Wu, Chenkai
Abstract:: Retirement is one of the most important transitional events in later life. Despite a large body of research examining the impacts of retirement on health, questions still remain regarding the relationship between retirement timing and subsequent health and survival. Previous research examining the existence, direction, and magnitude of the relationship...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Chenkai Wu for the degree of Master of Science in Human Development and Family Studies presented on June

Disengaged and untrusting? Young adults' feelings of social integration and trust during the Great Recession

Creator:: Day, Jack K.
Abstract:: Navigating the transition to adulthood is fraught with challenges, especially for those coming of age during an economic crisis. Individuals often rely on support from existing social networks, and establish social capital through deepening and expanding social ties, as they establish footholds in roles marking adulthood. Yet investing in social...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: identity and psychological maturity, and family and economic contexts also influence identity and

A study of conservation education as a basis for a biology unit for Oregon

Creator:: Sprecher, Stanley Addison
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: OREGON STATE COLLEGE in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF

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Keeping a Roof Overhead : An Examination of Housing Strategies Among Low-Income White Families in Rural Trailer Parks

Out-of-pocket health care expenditures and household food insecurity among families with children

"Because we didn't have nowhere to go" : residential instability among rural low-income families

Out-migration, income and poverty in nonmetropolitan America

Money and nonmoney incomes of elderly families and individuals : analysis and distribution

Poverty and child neglect : subtypes of neglect and stress as a mediator

How Does Income Inequality Affect Community Economic Resilience?

The Relationship between Retirement Timing and Mortality : A Population-Based Longitudinal Study among Older Adults in the United States

Disengaged and untrusting? Young adults' feelings of social integration and trust during the Great Recession

A study of conservation education as a basis for a biology unit for Oregon

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