Grol Prokopczyk, Hanna, Jeremy Freese, and Robert Hauser Working paper no. 2010-09 Abstract This paper identifies a potentially serious problem with the widely used self-rated health (SRH) survey item: that different groups (e.g., different nationalities) have systematically different ways of using the item’s response categories. Analyses based on unadjusted SRH may thus produce misleading or …
Raymo, James, John R. Warren, Megan M. Sweeney, Robert M. Hauser, and Jeong-Hwa Ho Working paper no. 2010-14 Abstract Objectives:We examined the extent to which involuntary job loss, exposure to “bad jobs,” and employment in non-unionized jobs across the life course are associated with the risk of early retirement. Methods:Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal …
Grol-Prokopczyk, Hanna Working paper no. 2010-18 Abstract In the past decade, anchoring vignettes have become an increasingly popular tool for identifying and correcting for group differences in use of subjective ordered response categories. However, existing techniques to maximize response consistency (the use of the same standards for self-ratings as for vignette-ratings), which center on matching …
Novak, Beatriz Working paper no. 2011-10 Abstract Purpose: The main objective of this study was to investigate whether subjective survival expectations in a developing country were as good as predictors of mortality as they have shown to be in other contexts. Design and Methods: Data for this study was drawn from the first wave of the Costa …
Palloni, Alberto, Beatriz Novak, and Laeticia Rodrigues de Souza Working paper no. 2012-03 Abstract We know surprisingly little about the long reach of changes in education and fertility, their intergenerational implications and the long term impact on human capital formation and aggregate economic growth. The purpose of this paper is to propose a simple framework …
Schwartz, Christine and Hongyun Han Working paper no. 2012-05 Abstract The reversal of the gender gap in education has potentially far-reaching consequences for marriage markets, family formation, and relationship outcomes. One possible consequence of this is the growing number of marriages in which wives have more education than their husbands. Previous studies have found this …
Winkler, Richelle, Kenneth M. Johnson, Cheng Cheng, Paul R. Voss, and Katherine Curtis Working paper no. 2013-04 Abstract This report documents the methodology used to prepare county-level, net migration estimates by five-year age cohorts and sex, and by race and Hispanic origin, for the intercensal period from 2000 to 2010. The estimates were prepared using …
Raymo, James, Andrew Halpern-Manners, and John Warren Working paper no. 2013-05 Abstract Our understanding of career influences on mortality is limited by reliance on relatively old data, use of surveys that contain only partial employment histories, and lack of consensus about how to best summarize detailed life history data. In this article, we address these …
Shirahase, Sawako, and James M. Raymo Working paper no. 2014-01 Abstract Single mothers’ relatively high levels of poverty are well documented, but the role that intergenerational coresidence may play in mitigating this disadvantage is not well understood. In this paper, we use multiple rounds of a large national survey between 1986-2007 (n = 67,252) to …
Raymo, James M., Kelly Musick, and Miho Iwasawa Working paper no. 2014-05 Abstract We examine educational differences in the intendedness of first births in Japan using data from a nationally representative survey of married women (N = 2,406). We begin by describing plausible scenarios for a negative, null, and positive educational gradient in unintended first …