Hauser, Robert, Jennifer Sheridan, and John Warren Working paper no. 1998-02 Abstract About 8500 graduates of Wisconsin high schools and a randomly selected brother or sister have been followed from 1957 through the early 1990s. Data include multiple measures of social background, cognitive ability, schooling, and occupations held from career entry to midlife. We have …
DeLamater, John, David Wagstaff, and Kayt Klein Havens Working paper no. 1998-03 Abstract A culturally appropriate, theoretically-based videotape was developed in collaboration with local African American producers to promote condom use among 15- to 19-year-old black males seeking treatment at a municipal STD clinic. The videotape’s immediate, short- (30 day), and long-term (6 month) impacts …
Miech, Richard Allen, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, Bradley E. Wright, and Phil A. Silva Working paper no. 1998-05 Abstract Over the past half century two competing hypotheses in sociological inquiry have provided interpretations of the well-documented association between low socioeconomic status and mental disorders. The selection hypothesis asserts that mental disorders impair status attainment, …
Miech, Richard Allen, and Robert Hauser Working paper no. 1998-06 Abstract There are several competing schemes for the measurement of social and economic standing in studies of health and well-being. We address the predictive validity of several alternative measures of social class and socioeconomic standing in relation to an array of health outcomes in the …
Hauser, Robert Working paper no. 1998-07 Abstract Students of social stratification often ignore cognitive ability. By ignoring it, they are open to the accusation that they have failed to consider the full range of factors affecting social and economic success, and they leave the field open to advocates who claim, unrealistically, that cognitive ability is …
Grzywacz, Joseph, and Nadine F. Marks Working paper no. 1998-08 Abstract Using ecological theory as a theoretical framework, this study systematically examined the associations between multiple dimensions of family solidarity, work characteristics, work-family spillover, and alcohol abuse among a national sample of employed midlife adults (N=1,806). Multivariate analyses confirmed that work and family microsystem factors …
Martin, Molly A. Working paper no. 1998-09 Abstract The reasons for the intergenerational association of welfare participation are poorly understood. Past work has examined what portion of the intergenerational association of welfare participation is due to an intergenerational association of low family income. The results of this work have been contradictory and inconclusive. To test …
Kanaiaupuni, Shawn Malia, and Katharine M. Donato Working paper no. 1998-10 Abstract Few studies have examined how migration affects the health of populations in origin communities. We apply multilevel methods to data from Mexico to examine how community and household migration patterns affect infant survival outcomes. We view migration as a cumulative process with varying …
Palloni, Alberto Working paper no. 1998-11
Hauser, Robert Working paper no. 1998-12 Abstract Economic research on intergenerational mobility has tended to focus on the extremes of the distribution of economic well-being—either on the inheritance of wealth or on the persistence of poverty. In the general population, there are few reliable measurements of the persistence of income or earnings across generations, and …