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Giving Unto Others: Private Financial Transfers and Hardship Among Families With Children
dc.contributor.authorPilkauskas, Natasha V.
dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Colin
dc.contributor.authorWimer, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-10T17:47:41Z
dc.date.available2018-08-07T15:51:22Zen
dc.date.issued2017-06
dc.identifier.citationPilkauskas, Natasha V.; Campbell, Colin; Wimer, Christopher (2017). "Giving Unto Others: Private Financial Transfers and Hardship Among Families With Children." Journal of Marriage and Family 79(3): 705-722.
dc.identifier.issn0022-2445
dc.identifier.issn1741-3737
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/136679
dc.description.abstractPrior research shows that financial assistance from family and friends is an important source of support for families with children. Research on financial transfers has largely focused on the recipients of transfers, however. In this study, using longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (n ∼ 16,000 person‐waves), the authors examine the association between the provision of financial assistance to family and friends and material hardship. The results from pooled regression and fixed effects models indicate that providing financial transfers is associated with an increased risk of hardship. The most economically disadvantaged groups, single mothers, those in the bottom income tertile, and Black mothers are the most likely to experience hardship after giving a transfer. These findings have important implications for understanding why families may have difficulty meeting basic and essential needs and how social networks may exacerbate the challenges of escaping poverty and establishing economic self‐sufficiency.
dc.publisherWiley Subscription Services, Inc.
dc.subject.othereconomic well‐being
dc.subject.otherpoverty
dc.subject.othersocial support
dc.subject.otherlow‐income families
dc.subject.otherkin
dc.subject.otherfragile families
dc.titleGiving Unto Others: Private Financial Transfers and Hardship Among Families With Children
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollow
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPsychiatry
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelFamily Medicine and Specialties
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHealth Sciences
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Reviewed
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dc.identifier.doi10.1111/jomf.12392
dc.identifier.sourceJournal of Marriage and Family
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