The impact of suspension on participation in school-based extracurricular activities and out-of-school community service
In this study, we investigate the relationship between suspension (i.e., in-school suspension, out-of-school suspension, or both) and youth participation in extracurricular activities, both in-school and outside of school, using data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002. Results suggest students who are suspended are less likely to participate in school clubs (e.g., student government, yearbook, band/choir), and are also less likely to participate in volunteer work/community service. This suggests the impact of school discipline extends beyond the schooling context. These results provide insight into how suspens...
Source: Social Science Research - September 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Educational expansion and educational wage premiums of young male employees: A long-term analysis for West Germany 1976–2010
Publication date: Available online 16 September 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Holger Alda, Anett Friedrich, Daniela Rohrbach-SchmidtAbstractFor decades, Western societies have experienced educational expansion accompanied by an upgrading of skills. The literature provides competing hypotheses on the consequences for educational wage returns—among them are the positional value theory, routine-biased technological change, and the social closure theory. We test these theoretical perspectives empirically on young, male full-time workers in West Germany between 1976 and 2010 in two ideal-type occupational segm...
Source: Social Science Research - September 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A tangled web: The reciprocal relationship between depression and educational outcomes in China
Publication date: Available online 13 September 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Wensong ShenAbstractResearch on depression and education usually focuses on a unidirectional relationship. This paper proposes a reciprocal relationship, simultaneously estimating the effects of depression on education and of education on depression. China, which has the world's largest education system, is used as a case study. This paper applies structural equation modeling to three datasets: the China Family Panel Studies, the China Education Panel Survey, and the Gansu Survey of Children and Families. Analyses reveal a recipro...
Source: Social Science Research - September 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Partnered women's contribution to household labour income: Persistent inequalities among couples and their determinants
Publication date: Available online 7 September 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Martina Dieckhoff, Vanessa Gash, Antje Mertens, Laura Romeu GordoAbstractThis paper explores earnings inequalities within dual-earner couples in East and West Germany drawing on household-level panel data from 1992 to 2016. It has three aims: (1) to analyze how the partner pay gap (the pay gap between partners within one household) has developed over time, given institutional change, and whether the extent of inequality and temporal development vary between East and West Germany; (2) to explore variation in the partner pay gap by m...
Source: Social Science Research - September 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Kin location and racial disparities in exiting and entering poor neighborhoods
Publication date: Available online 3 September 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Elizabeth Ackert, Amy Spring, Kyle Crowder, Scott J. SouthAbstractBlacks and Latinos/as are less likely than Whites to move from a poor neighborhood to a non-poor neighborhood and are more likely to move in the reverse direction. Using individual-level data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1980–2013) and neighborhood-level census data, this study explores the role that the spatial location of familial kin networks plays in explaining these racially and ethnically disparate mobility patterns. Blacks and Latinos/as live clo...
Source: Social Science Research - September 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Maternal employment when children are in preschool: Variations by race, ethnicity, and nativity
Publication date: Available online 3 September 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Christel KeslerAbstractPreschool programs in the United States have expanded dramatically in recent decades. There has been significant scholarly attention to the implications of this for inequalities in children's educational outcomes, but less attention to the implications for the work-family lives of parents. Drawing on data from 2001 to 2017 American Community Surveys, this paper examines how children's preschool enrollment is associated with maternal employment, with particular attention to differences by mothers' race, ethnic...
Source: Social Science Research - September 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Welfare deservingness opinions from heuristic to measurable concept: The CARIN deservingness principles scale
Publication date: Available online 3 September 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Bart Meuleman, Femke Roosma, Koen AbtsAbstractA steadily growing number of studies investigate how popular support for social policies targeting particular groups is rooted in citizens’ deservingness opinions. According to theory, people fall back on five criteria – Control, Attitude, Reciprocity, Identity and Need (CARIN) – to distinguish the deserving from the undeserving. Deservingness opinions are assumed to be important predictors of support for particular welfare arrangements. A striking feature of this emerging researc...
Source: Social Science Research - September 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Is healthcare the new manufacturing?: Industry, gender, and “good jobs” for low- and middle-skill workers
Publication date: Available online 3 September 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Janette Dill, Melissa HodgesAbstractUsing the 2004 and 2008 panels of the Survey for Income and Program Participation (SIPP), we examine whether the heavily feminized health care industry produces “good jobs” for workers without a college degree as compared to other major industries. For women, we find that jobs in the health care industry are significantly more likely than the food service and retail industries to provide wages above $15 per hour, health benefits, fulltime hours, and job security. Jobs in the health care indus...
Source: Social Science Research - September 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Job quality differences among younger and older workers in Europe: The role of institutions
Publication date: Available online 4 September 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): José M. Arranz, Carlos García-Serrano, Virginia HernanzAbstractWe compare non-wage aspects of job quality of younger and older workers across European countries and relate the differences between them to the prevailing institutional settings. Microdata from the European Union Labour Force Survey are used to carry out the measurement of a job quality index during the period 2005–2015, while aggregate indicators are used to approximate a set of labour market institutions. Our findings support the notion that the institutional fra...
Source: Social Science Research - September 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Public school accountability, workplace culture, and teacher morale
Publication date: Available online 2 September 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Kristen Erichsen, John ReynoldsAbstractEducational scholars claim that teacher morale has suffered from accountability pressures and constrained professionalism, but exactly what is most diminished by these pressures remains unclear. Drawing on recent theoretical work on public school organizational culture, we hypothesize that accountability pressures hurt teacher morale and increase the risk of turnover by undermining the professional culture of the school and by diminishing teacher cooperation and trust. We find support for this...
Source: Social Science Research - September 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Exploring the origin of sentencing disparities in the Crown Court: Using text mining techniques to differentiate between court and judge disparities
Publication date: Available online 3 September 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Jose Pina-Sánchez, Diana Grech, Ian Brunton-Smith, Dimitrios SferopoulosAbstractResearch on sentence consistency in England and Wales has focused on disparities between courts, with differences between judges largely ignored. This is largely due to the limitations in official data. Using text mining techniques from Crown Court sentence records available online we generate a sample of 7,212 violent and sexual offences where both court and judge are captured. Multilevel time-to-event analyses of sentence length demonstrate that most...
Source: Social Science Research - September 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Disentangling the role of income in the academic achievement of migrant children
Publication date: Available online 31 August 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Monique Gagné, Magdalena Janus, Nazeem Muhajarine, Anne Gadermann, Eric Duku, Constance Milbrath, Anita Minh, Barry Forer, Carly Magee, Martin GuhnAbstractPoverty has a well-established association with poor developmental outcomes in children but is often found to be a weak predictor of outcomes for migrant children. Building on theory focused on the developmental competencies of minority children, the current study used a systematic and novel analytic approach to disentangle the relationship between income and developmental outcome...
Source: Social Science Research - September 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Degrees of inequality: The Great Recession and the college earnings premium in U.S. metropolitan areas
Publication date: Available online 17 August 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Angran Li, Michael Wallace, Allen HydeAbstractThe Great Recession had devastating impacts on the U.S. labor market as millions of workers lost their jobs while others faced declining earnings, erosion of job security, and loss of dignity at work. While workers of all education levels experienced rising unemployment and declining earnings, it is unclear if workers of all educational levels were equally affected. In this paper, we examine the impact of the Great Recession on variations in the college earnings premium—the ratio of ear...
Source: Social Science Research - August 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: Social Science Research - August 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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