Hauser, Robert, Devah Pager, and Solon J. Simmons Working paper no. 2000-08 Abstract Despite the visible popularity of policies “to end social promotion,” little is known about the prevalence of grade retention in American schools or about the effects of race-ethnicity and other social and economic background characteristics on retention. We review the policy context …
Hauser, Robert, Solon J. Simmons, and Devah Pager Working paper no. 2000-12 Abstract Between 1972 and 1998, data from October Current Population Surveys show that dropout is least among whites and greatest among Hispanics, and it has declined among whites and African-Americans since the late 1970s. Annual dropout rates are successively higher in each of …
Guend, Abdelhani, Karen Swallen, and David Kindig Working paper no. 2002-02
Martin, Molly, Gary D. Sandefur, and Ann Meier Working paper no. 2002-11 Abstract Medical and social research has found racial and ethnic differences in weight relative to stature. While previous research has controlled to varying degrees for family socioeconomic status, other observed and unobserved differences across families could help explain the observed racial and ethnic …
Guend, Hani, and Alberto Palloni Working paper no. 2003-07 Abstract We examine differentials in adult Partial Life Expectancies by type of disability between two censuses within each racial group; and among white, black, Asian, and Native Americans in 1990. During the 1980s, women of minority groups benefited from an improvement in Disability Free Life Expectancy, …
De Vos, Susan, and Flavia Andrade Working paper no. 2003-08 Abstract This paper examines independent living among elderly Brazilians 65+ of different racial groups since 1980. Consistent with current theoretical notions about the living arrangements of elderly people, there was an overall increase in independent living among them. However, the increase mainly reflects change among …
Campbell, Mary E., and Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck Working paper no. 2003-10 Abstract This paper uses the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine the social and psychological well-being of multiracial adolescents. Using three different measures of multiracial identity, we investigate the ways in which these adolescents compare to their monoracial counterparts on the …
Campbell, Mary E. Working paper no. 2003-11 Abstract The “one-drop rule” has historically been used to classify individuals with any African American ancestry as black. There is reason to think, however, that this “rule” might be weakening. Using the May 1995 Current Population Survey’s Race and Ethnicity Supplement, I investigate the salience of the “one-drop …
Voss, Paul, Scott McNiven, Roger B. Hammer, Kenneth M. Johnson, and Glenn Fuguitt Working paper no. 2004-24
Beale, Calvin, and Glenn Fuguitt Working paper no. 2008-09 Abstract Older Blacks migrated to nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) communities in the 1990s to a degree not true of the past. Some of the nonmetro counties that attracted them are well-known retirement areas also favored by other retirees, mostly Whites. Two-thirds of Black retirement counties, however, are areas …