Tag: education

Black-White Differentials in the Effect of Family Background on Educational Attainment of U.S. Men Born from 1907 to 1946: A Study of Sibling Resemblance

Kuo, Hsiang-Hui Daphne, and Robert Hauser Working paper no. 1994-10

Social Background, Migration History, and English Language Ability: Educational Attainment among White and Mexican Origin Children in the American Southwest, 1990

Warren, John Working paper no. 1994-11

How Does Size of Sibship Matter? Revisiting Family Configuration and the Effect of Family Background on Educational Attainment

Kuo, Hsiang-Hui Daphne, and Robert Hauser Working paper no. 1994-16

Eliciting Student Expectations of the Returns to Schooling

Dominitz, Jeff, and Charles Maski Working paper no. 1994-20

Social Stratification across Three Generations: New Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study

Warren, John, and Robert Hauser Working paper no. 1995-05 Abstract Research on intergenerational social and economic mobility is almost always limited to mobility across two generations. While two-generation studies provide important insights into the ways in which social and economic advantages and disadvantages are passed from one generation to the next, much less attention focuses …

Does the Gender Composition of Sibships Affect Educational Attainment?

Hauser, Robert, and Hsiang-Hui Daphne Kuo Working paper no. 1995-06 Abstract Data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the November 1989 Current Population Survey, and the National Longitudinal Study of Women suggest that women with sisters have completed less schooling than women without sisters. This hypothesis follows a long tradition of theories about the …

Demography and the Evolution of Educational Inequality

Mare, Robert Working paper no. 1995-10

Social Background Differentials in College Entry among Recent High School Graduates: The Effects of Race, Sex, and Family Background

Hanam, Phang Working paper no. 1995-19

Does Poverty in Adolescence Affect the Life Chances of High School Graduates

Hauser, Robert, and Megan Sweeney Working paper no. 1995-22

The Effectiveness of Single-Sex Catholic Secondary Schooling: Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988

LePore, Paul, and John Warren Working paper no. 1996-05 Abstract Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, we ask three questions. First, are there differences between single-sex and coeducational Catholic secondary school students in academic and social psychological outcomes? Second, do these differences especially favor young women in single-sex Catholic secondary schools, …