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 …
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, 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 …
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 …
Hauser, Robert Working paper no. 1999-06
MacLean, Alair, and Robert Hauser Working paper no. 2000-04
Huang, Min-Hsiung, and Robert Hauser Working paper no. 2000-07 Abstract Using aggregate data from the General Social Survey (GSS), 1974-1996, Lynn (1998) claims that the Black-White intelligence difference in the United States has not been narrowing over time. We replicate Lynn’s analysis and challenge his conclusion by identifying several methodological problems. By analyzing changes in …
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 …