SECTION I:

PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC PAPERS AND CURRENT RESEARCH

Published/Presented Papers:  The Land, Lamb, and Mustillo (2001) article describes in detail the basic components, structure and properties of the Child Well-Being Index.  Gender differences in each of the 28 indicator series as well as within the seven domains of CWI are described in Meadows, Land, & Lamb (2005). Attention is also given to a gender-disparity version of the Index. Land (2004) was presented at the Opening Session of the Fifth Conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies in Frankfurt, Germany. It is a review of quality-of-life research and suggests areas for future studies. The Lamb, Land, Meadows, and Traylor (2005) chapter details trends in African-American child well-being as well as a comparison of these trends to overall changes in the well-being of all American children during the period of 1985 to 2001. The Hagerty and Land (2006) paper specifies a model for measuring the extent to which individuals with differing importance weights for the component indicators agree on a summary well-being or quality-of-life index, and derives conditions under which an index will be endorsed by a majority of a social group. The Land, Lamb, Meadows, and Taylor (2006) paper updates the Land et al. (2001) paper and summarizes other recent research on the CWI.

Paper I-1: Land, Kenneth C., Vicki L. Lamb, and Sarah Kahler Mustillo. 2001.  “Child and Youth Well-Being in the United States, 1975-1998:  Some Findings from a New Index,” Social Indicators Research, 56, (December):241-320.

Paper I-2: Land, Kenneth C. 2004. "An Evidence-Based Approach to the Construction of Summary Quality-of-Life Indices." Pp. 107-124 in Wolfgang Glatzer, Matthias Stoffregen, and Susanne von Below (eds.) Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World. New York: Kluwer.

Paper I-3: Meadows, Sarah O., Kenneth C. Land, and Vicki L. Lamb.  2005.  "Assessing Gilligan Versus Sommers:  Gender-Specific Trends in Child and Youth Well-Being in the United States, 1985-2001."  Social Indicators Research, 70, (January I):1-52.

Paper I-4: Lamb, Vicki L., Kenneth C. Land, Sarah O. Meadows, and Fasaha Traylor. 2005. "Trends in African-American Child Well-Being: 1985-2001." Pp.21-44 in Vonnie McLoyd, Nancy Hill, and Kenneth Dodge (eds.) African American Family Life. New York: GuilfordPress.

Paper I-5: Land, Kenneth C., Vicki L. Lamb, Sarah O. Meadows, and Ashley Taylor. 2006. "Measuring Trends in Child Well-Being: An Evidence-Based Approach." Social Indicators Research, 80 (January):105-132.

Paper I-6: Hagerty, Michael R. and Kenneth C. Land.  2006.  “Constructing Summary Indices of Quality of Life:  A Model for the Effect of Heterogeneous Importance Weights.” Sociological Methods and Research, 35(May):455-496.

Papers on Current Research:  Current research papers focus on a more detailed examination of trends and disparities in child and youth well-being among major race and ethnic groups.  Additional current research focuses on methods for the projection of the time series of component social indicators for the Child Well-Being Index and on the development of comparable summary indices for each of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

Paper I-7: Lamb, Vicki L., Kenneth C. Land, and Sarah O. Meadows.  2003.  “Trends and Disparities in Black, Hispanic, and White Child and Youth Well-Being, 1985-2000. 

KIDS COUNT Working Papers: Two working papers sponsered by KIDS COUNT are featured here. The first, O'Hare and Lamb (2004), examines state ranking in ten indicators of child well-being from 1990 to 2000. The second, O'Hare and Bramstedt (2004), compares findings from the Kids Count index, the FCD CWI, and the annual America's Children report for the decade spanning from 1990 to 2000 in an attempt to develop a global measure of child well-being.

Paper I-8: O'Hare, William P. and Vicki L. Lamb. 2004. "Ranking States Based on Improvement in Child Well-Being During the 1990s." A KIDS COUNT working paper.

Paper I-9: O'Hare, William P. and Nicole L. Bramstedt. 2004. "Assessing the KIDS COUNT Composite Index." A KIDS COUNT working paper.