Hauser, Robert, and Min-Hsiung Huang Working paper no. 1997-13 Abstract Along with other recent analyses of American social structure, Herrnstein and Murray’s The Bell Curve offers several hypotheses about the increasing centrality of cognitive ability in social stratification during the 20th century. These include growing cognitive sorting in education, occupational standing, and income and—by implication—increasing …
Wilson, Franklin Working paper no. 1997-17 Abstract This paper seeks to determine whether employment in co-ethnic niches enhances labor market opportunities for urban workers, and whether the immigrant share of the workforce of an employment sector is associated with joblessness, low occupational attainment and low hourly wages. The results indicate that while substantial shares of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Miech, Richard Allen, Michael J. Shanahan, and Glen H. Elder Jr. Working paper no. 1998-24
Velyvis, Kristen Working paper no. 1998-26 Abstract This study looks at the sexual networks of migrant women from the Serere ethnic group in Senegal, West Africa. These women were identified as likely to be at risk of high rates of sexual networking (having relations with multiple sex partners), a high risk practice for HIV infection, …