Showing papers in "Social Science Research in 2007"

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of demographic and economic factors on energy consumption were analyzed for fourteen foundational European Union Nations covering the period 1960-2000 to estimate the effect of population size and age structure.

TL;DR: The authors examined five dimensions of marital quality as well as marital dissolution for Blacks, Whites, and Mexican Americans using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (N = 6231).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined patterns and determinants of information technology usage in five countries: the U.S., Sweden, Japan, South Korea and Singapore, focusing on cross-country differences in IT access and use across sex, age, education and income groups.

TL;DR: Noncoverage (lack of access to the Internet) appears to be of greater concern than nonresponse (unwillingness to participate given access) for representation in Internet surveys of persons 50 years old and older in the US.

TL;DR: The authors explored the ability of several domains of adolescent life (parent-child relationships, peer networks, academic performance, school attachment, and psychological well-being) to account for the higher rate of school dropout among mobile than non-mobile adolescents.

TL;DR: In this article, a new method for measuring labor market dualism and identifying discrete labor market segments is presented, which allows us to examine the distribution of workers across these segments over the life course and to estimate the effects of nonstandard work and citizenship status on creating and placing workers into bad jobs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the school enrollment of migrant children who resided in cities of Guangdong province in 1995, using data from the 1995 China 1% Population Sample Survey, and applied a research strategy that incorporates both migration origin as well as destination.

TL;DR: This article found that socioeconomically disadvantaged parents and minority parents are less likely to provide estimates of college tuition and, when they provide estimates, tend to make larger errors than comparable middle-class or white parents.

TL;DR: This article analyzed the effects of social policy regarding women's employment and work-family conflict on the division of household labor in 33 countries and found that women's full-time employment and higher income have stronger effects on the gender division of housework in countries with greater equality of access policies.

TL;DR: It is speculated that in the early history of new occupations and organizations, there was a causal relationship between gender composition and wages, and it has been frozen in by institutional inertia in relative wage structures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of social class on educational attainment in Denmark was analyzed using an extremely rich Danish longitudinal survey to construct empirical measures of economic, cultural, and social capital and an extended random effect framework for the statistical analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze disparities in family background and potentially influential investments parents make (or are constrained from making) early and late in the high school experience, and then how the patterns uncovered shape the likelihood of college attendance.

TL;DR: This article used data from the General Social Survey from 1977 to 2002 to investigate trends in and determinants of US workers' perceptions of job security, finding that perceived job security is impacted at the individual level by demographic factors such as race, age, education, earnings, part-time status, and occupation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test a series of hypotheses concerning the political-economic causes of change in per capita consumption-based environmental impacts. And they find that more-developed nations and those with a greater intensity in the services sector experience higher increases in per- capita footprints, while manufacturing intensity and export intensity are inversely related to growth in consumptionbased impacts, and support key tenets of treadmill of production theory, uneven ecological exchange theory, export dependence theory, and world-systems theory.

TL;DR: In this article, the beneWts of teaching executives to understand the network structure of social capital is discussed. And the subsequent careers of executives who were quiet spectators in the program cannot be distinguished from the careers of people in the control group, peers who never attended the program.

TL;DR: The authors found that urban mothers who have a non-marital birth are significantly more likely to marry within a year of that birth if they attend church frequently and that this religious effect cannot be explained by measured relationship-related beliefs and behaviors (such as affection between partners and the absence of domestic violence).

TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal study of children born in Britain in 1958 showed that parental involvement does matter, but it depends on when involvement and economic hardship are measured, as well as type of involvement and parent gender.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data on the entire population of the Netherlands to analyze ethnic endogamy among first generation immigrants, and they found that the ethnic diversity of immigrants in the Netherlands is higher among immigrants who do not speak the host language well, who have lower educational qualiWcations, and who are nonwhite.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify and estimate the effects of changes in the earnings structure on the development of earnings gaps between Ashkenazi men and the other four groups over time and hypothesize that differences in returns to human capital grew faster than the rate at which between-group mean levels of human capital converged.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the origins of adolescent beliefs about gender and found that current family context is the most crucial component of adolescent and young adult gender ideology, and that current life experiences are better predictors of gender ideology than are characteristics of family of origin.

TL;DR: This paper used the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF) to analyze the effects of affirmative action on college outcomes for among the 1999 cohort of freshmen in 28 selective colleges and universities.

TL;DR: Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), the concepts of homophily, blending, and amalgamation are utilized to describe the possible friendship patterns of multiracials.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how much residential mobility and neighborhood change contribute to the overall socioeconomic variation in children's neighborhoods and uncover interesting regional and race/ethnic differences in neighborhood dynamics and neighborhood effects.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of structural equation models and data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality were used to assess the relative roles of perceptions of neighborhood disorder and objective levels of neighborhood poverty in influencing individuals' self-reported self-esteem.

TL;DR: This article analyzed the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) data using hierarchical linear models and found that socioeconomic composition of the school but not racial composition is an important predictor of AHPVT test scores of Latino adolescents.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a methodological design that enables researchers to assess what factors cause mental and physical health problems for individuals living in contaminated areas and found that sociodemographic, perceived exposure, objective exposure and food consumption variables are significant predictors of physical health and psychological well-being.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply the stigmatization hypothesis to the case of divorce and examine whether higher normative intolerance toward divorce in the region of residence leads to declines in social contacts after divorce.

TL;DR: This article examined correlations of child outcomes between siblings from the same family and found that first born children generally outperform their younger siblings on age-adjusted achievement tests, while children in two-parent households perform more similarly on age adjusted achievement tests than do children in single parent households.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined immigrants' employment careers and their (dis)similarity with careers of the native-born in West Germany and found that second-generation immigrants, particularly Turks, are not only more likely to be long-term unemployed, they are also pushed into unskilled occupations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the European evidence on this subject and brought new evidence, focusing on Helsinki, the capital of Finland, to assess the existence and form of neighborhood effects on the educational careers of young people in Helsinki.