In a prospective study of U.S. Navy recruits (N = 5,491), we examined the relationship between childhood exposure to family violence (child physical abuse, CPA; child sexual abuse, CSA; and domestic violence, DV) and attrition. Overall, 55% of recruits experienced one or more forms of childhood family violence and 34% of recruits attrited within 4 years following enlistment. Considered separate...

Using a randomized experiment, this study investigates the impact of sustained investment in parenting, from pregnancy until age five, in the context of extensive welfare provision. Providing the Preparing for Life program, incorporating home visiting, group parenting, and baby massage, to disadvantaged Irish families raises children’s cognitive and socio-emotional/behavioral scores by two-thir...

This article analyzes generalized method of moments estimation when the sample is not a random draw from the population of interest. Auxiliary information, in the form of moments from the population of interest, is exploited to compute weights that are proportional to the inverse probability of selection. The essential idea is to construct weights for each observation in the primary data such t...