Recent Publications and Working Papers:

• Adolescent expectations and desires about marriage and parenthood, Journal of Adolescence. 30, December 2007, 943-63.
  
  
• Plotnick, R. D., Garfinkel, I., McLanahan, S. S., & Ku, I. (2007). The Impact of Child Support Enforcement Policy on Nonmarital Childbearing. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 26(1), 79-98.
  
  
• Welfare dynamics, in the International Encyclopedia of Social Policy, Tony Fitzpatrick, Huck-ju Kwon, Nick Manning, James Midgely and Gill Pascall (eds.), London: Routledge Ltd., 2006.
  
  
• Plotnick, R., Garfinkel, I., McLanahan, S., & Ku, I. (2004). Better child support enforcement: Can it reduce teenage premarital childbearing? Journal of Family Issues, 25(5), 634-657.
  
  
• Plotnick, R. (2004). Disaggregating the effects of welfare reform: Reflections on five studies. Eastern Economic Journal, 30(1), 119-123.
  
  
• Ku, I. & Plotnick, R. (2003). Do children from welfare families obtain less schooling? Demography, 40:1, 151-170.
  
  
• Plotnick, R., Peters, E. and Jeong, S-O. (2003). How will welfare reform affect family structure and childbearing decisions? Pp. 59-91 in R.A. Gordon & H. Walberg (Eds) Changing Welfare. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.