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Youth Early Employment and Behavior Problems: Human Capital and Social Network Pathways to Adulthood
(SAGE Publications, 2014-04-28)We examine the relationship between early youth employment and behavior problems and ask whether this relationship differs by race, job quality, or work intensity. Drawing on Panel Study of Income Dynamics data, we depict ... -
Wealth as Security: Growth Curve Analyses of Household Income and Net Worth During a Recession
(Springer Verlag, 2016-03)Building on evidence of increasing inequality with the 2008-9 recession, we ask whether households experienced different financial trajectories through the recession depending on initial income and net worth. Using growth ... -
Heritability and the Equal Environments Assumption: Evidence from Multiple Samples of Misclassified Twins
(Springer Verlag, 2013-08-01)Classically derived estimates of heritability from twin models have been plagued by the possibility of genetic-environmental covariance. Survey questions that attempt to measure directly the extent to which more genetically ... -
The Relationship between Income and Net Worth in the U.S.: A Virtuous Cycle for High but Not Low Income Households
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-01-22)Is there a reciprocal relationship between household income and net worth and does that relationship depend on initial income? Using cross-lagged panel models of household income and net worth data from the Panel Study of ... -
Sibling Genes as Environment: Sibling Dopamine Genotypes and Adolescent Health Support Frequency Dependent Selection
(Elsevier, 2015-11)While research consistently suggests siblings matter for individual outcomes, it remains unclear why. At the same time, studies of genetic effects on health typically correlate variants of a gene with the average level of ... -
Plastic and Immobile: Unequal Intergenerational Mobility by Genetic Sensitivity Score within Sibling Pairs
(Elsevier, 2017-07)Contrary to traditional biological arguments, the differential susceptibility model suggests genotype may moderate rather than mediate parent-child economic similarity. Using family fixed effects models of Add Health sibling ... -
Producing Adulthood: Adolescent Employment, Fertility, and the Life Course
(Elsevier, 2011-03)Adolescent employment is typically framed as having either positive or negative effects. Yet cutting edge research yields apparently contradictory results; work lowers delinquency but also increases school dropout. Both ... -
Beyond orchids and dandelions: Testing the 5HTT “risky” allele for evidence of phenotypic capacitance and frequency dependent selection
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)The persistence of behaviorally deleterious genes in the human population poses an interesting question for population genetics: If certain alleles at these loci are deleterious, why have they survived in the population? ... -
Examining the Relationship between Parental Educational Expectations and a Community-Based Children’s Savings Account Program
(Elsevier, 2017)Children’s Savings Account (CSA) program and parents’ educational expectations for their children. We examine survey data collected as part of the rollout and implementation of The Promise Indiana CSA program. Although ... -
Marriage Delayed and Equalized: Effects of Early U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws on Marital Patterns by Race
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-06-22)Identifying a causal relationship between education and marital status poses methodological challenges. Using regression discontinuity analyses of U.S. Census data from 1910 and 1930, I estimate effects of early U.S. ... -
Hidden Gains: Effects of Early U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws on Attendance and Attainment by Social Background*
(SAGE Publications, 2014-12-01)Research on early compulsory schooling laws finds minimal effects on attendance but fails to investigate heterogeneous effects. Similarly, research proposes limited contexts in which expansion policies can increase equality ... -
Genetic Interactions with Prenatal Social Environment: Effects on Academic and Behavioral Outcomes
(American Sociological Association, 2013-02-21)Numerous studies report gene-environment interactions, suggesting that specific alleles have different effects on social outcomes depending on environment. In all these studies, however, environmental conditions are ... -
Educational Expansion and Occupational Change: U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws and the Occupational Structure 1850-1930*
(Oxford University Press, 2015)During the US Industrial Revolution, educational expansion may have created skilled jobs through innovation and skill upgrading or reduced skilled jobs by mechanizing production. Such arguments contradict classic sociological ... -
The Effect of Daughters on Partisanship and Social Attitudes Toward Woman
(Wiley, 2013-11-21)Washington (2008) finds that daughters promote liberal voting (at least with respect to women's issues) among U.S. Congress members and attributes this finding to socialization. However, daughters’ influence could manifest ... -
Effects of Early U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws on Educational Assortative Mating: The Importance of Context
(Springer Verlag, 2015)Modernization theory predicts rising education should increase assortative mating by education and decrease sorting by race. Recent research suggests effects of educational expansion depend on contextual factors such as ... -
More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
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From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage
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Confronting the Material Convoy in Later Life
(Wiley, 2011-08-01)We adapt a metaphor from life course studies to designate the whole of one’s possessions, across time, as a convoy of material support. This dynamic collection of things supports daily life and the self, but it can also ... -
Possession Divestment by Sales in Later Life
(Elsevier, 2015-08)Residential relocation in later life is almost always a downsizing, with many possessions to be divested in a short period of time. This article examines older movers’ capacities for selling things, and ways that selling ... -
Education and Lifetime Earnings in the United States
(Springer Verlag, 2015-08)Differences in lifetime earnings by educational attainment have been of great research and policy interest. Although a large literature examines earnings differences by educational attainment, research on lifetime ...
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