Category: working paper

Choosing a Measure of Occupational Standing: How Useful are Composite Measures in Analyses of Gender Inequality in Occupational Attainment?

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Warren, John, Jennifer T. Sheridan, and Robert Hauser Working paper no. 1996-10 Abstract We ask whether and how indexes or scales of occupational socioeconomic standing affect inferences about gender differences in occupational success and occupational attainment processes. To address these questions, we report parallel analyses of the role of gender in the process of occupational …

Living Arrangements of Children 13-16 and School Attendance: Latin America in the Early 1980s

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De Vos, Susan Working paper no. 1996-11 Abstract Since research findings for the United States suggest the tantalizing possibility that living arrangements effect a child’s likelihood of school enrollment through differences in such factors as expectations, this study begins to examine whether the same might also be the case in part of Latin America. Considering …

Wisconsin’s Class of 1957 and their Families in the 1990s

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Hauser, Robert, Taissa Hauser, Deborah Carr, and Jennifer Sheridan Working paper no. 1996-12

Prevalence and Patterns of Female-Headed Households in Latin America

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Arias, Elizabeth, and Alberto Palloni Working paper no. 1996-14

Geo-Demographic Methods for Improving Small-Area Population Estimates

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Perry, Marc, and Paul Voss Working paper no. 1996-15

Effects of Lactation on Post-Partum Amenorrhea: Re-estimation Using INCAP Data

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Pinto, Guido, and Alberto Palloni Working paper no. 1996-17 Abstract In this paper we re-estimate the effects of breastfeeding patterns on the timing of resumption of menses after controlling for maternal nutrition and maternal stressors variables. The analysis shows that simple hazard models, used on data from the INCAP longitudinal study, provide estimates of effects …

Occupational Status, Education, and Social Mobility in the Meritocracy

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Hauser, Robert, John Warren, Min-Hsiung Huang, and Wendy Y. Carter Working paper no. 1996-18 Abstract Following a brief review of the concept of occupational status, we review trends in occupational standing, using data from the 1962 and 1973 Occupational Changes in a Generation Surveys (OCG), the 1986-88 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), and …

Population and Deforestation in Costa Rica

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Rosero-Bixby, Luis, and Alberto Palloni Working paper no. 1996-19

American Indian Ethnic Identity: An Analysis of Tribal Specification in the 1990 Census

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Liebler, Carolyn Working paper no. 1996-20 Abstract About two million people identified their race as American Indian by checking the box labeled “Indian (Amer.)” on the racial self-identification question on the 1990 U.S. Census, but only about 90 percent of these people filled in the adjacent space in which they were asked to name their …

The Fulfillment of Career Dreams at Midlife: Does it Matter for Women’s Mental Health?

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Carr, Deborah Working paper no. 1996-21 Abstract This paper examines whether a woman’s mental health at midlife is affected by the degree to which her earlier career aspirations have been fulfilled. Based on data for 3,052 female respondents to the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), the analysis assesses whether a discrepancy between the socioeconomic status of …