Showing papers by "Yu Xie published in 2000"
TL;DR: In this paper, an explanation of differences in openness using country-level explanatory variables par J. Smits, W. Ultee et J. Lammers is presented. But the authors do not discuss the relationship between educational homogamy in 65 countries.
Abstract: Cet article commente l'etude publiee en 1998 sous le titre Educational homogamy in 65 countries : an explanation of differences in openness using country-level explanatory variables par J. Smits, W. Ultee et J. Lammers. Dans la presente etude, les AA. reexaminent certaines conclusions de l'etude precitee en ce qui concerne les variations temporelles et regionales de la force de l'homogamie educationnelle a travers une analyse menee sur quatre pays. Les principales questions soulevees sont de savoir si une tendance generale a une plus grande ouverture sociale est observee, si l'homogamie educationnelle demeure plus importante dans les pays de tradition confuceenne et si l'homogamie educationnelle decroit avec le niveau de developpement economique
108 citations
TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of political and economic reforms on income stratification in urban China using data from a 1992 nationally representative survey of the elderly and found that the increasing importance of returns to human capital, the ability of communist elite to convert their political capital into new sources of power in emerging markets, and the continued importance of redistributive activities of the party-state.
40 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, Demography: Past, Present, and Future, the authors present a survey of the past, present, and future of the US population, focusing on demographic changes.
Abstract: (2000). Demography: Past, Present, and Future. Journal of the American Statistical Association: Vol. 95, No. 450, pp. 670-673.
35 citations
01 Jun 2000
TL;DR: This article investigated the extent to which this college-going gap is due to racial disparities in socioeconomic family backgrounds, academic performance, and expectations and values about education, and found that expectations and value about education are similar between the groups and contribute little to race disparities in college attendance.
Abstract: College enrollment rates of blacks have historically trailed those of whites, although the actual size of the racial gap has fluctuated in recent decades. Using logistic regression and a decomposition analysis, this study investigated the extent to which this college-going gap is due to racial disparities in socioeconomic family backgrounds, academic performance, and expectations and values about education. Sizable differences are found between blacks and whites in socioeconomic family background and academic performance, as well as interactions between race and these variables. However, expectations and values about education are similar between the groups and contribute little to racial disparities in college attendance. (Contains 2 figures, 4 tables, and 43 references.) (SLD) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. 1 Pamela R. Bennett and Yu Xie Explaining the Black-White Gap in College Attendance: Racial Differences versus Socioeconomic Determinants
8 citations