Is the Gender Gap in College Enrollment Influenced by Nonmarital Birth Rates and Father Absence?

2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Doherty ◽  
Brian J. Willoughby ◽  
Jason L. Wilde
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
College Enrollment ◽  
Father Absence ◽  
Nonmarital Birth ◽  
Birth Rates

Non-College Occupations and the Gender Gap in College Enrollment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Chuan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
College Enrollment

Workplace Routinization and the Gender Gap in College Enrollment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Chuan ◽  
Weilong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
College Enrollment

scholarly journals Father Absence and the Educational Gender Gap

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelly J. Lundberg
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Father Absence

Precursors to the Gender Gap in College Enrollment: Children's Aspirations and Expectations for Their Futures

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Blackhurst ◽  
Richard Auger
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
College Enrollment

Gender Gap in College Enrollment

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Thuc-Doan T. Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
College Enrollment

scholarly journals The Opioid Epidemic and Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States, 2000–2016

Demography ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 345-378
Author(s):  
Mónica L. Caudillo ◽  
Andrés Villarreal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unaffected Individual ◽  
Opioid Overdose ◽  
Opioid Epidemic ◽  
Nonmarital Birth ◽  
Birth Rates ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Overdose Deaths

Abstract The United States has experienced a dramatic rise in opioid addiction and opioid overdose deaths in recent years. We investigate the effect of the opioid epidemic at the local level on nonmarital fertility using aggregate- and individual-level analyses. Opioid overdose death rates and prescriptions per capita are used as indicators of the intensity of the opioid epidemic. We estimate area fixed-effects models to test the effect of the opioid epidemic on nonmarital birth rates obtained from vital statistics for 2000–2016. We find an increase in nonmarital birth rates in communities that experienced a rise in opioid overdose deaths and higher prescription rates. Our analyses also show that the local effect of the opioid epidemic is not driven by a reduction in marriage rates and that marital birth rates are unaffected. Individual-level data from the ACS 2008–2016 are then used to further assess the potential causal mechanisms and to test heterogeneous effects by education and race/ethnicity. Our findings suggest that the opioid epidemic increased nonmarital birth rates through social disruptions primarily affecting unmarried women but not through changes in their economic condition.

scholarly journals Juxtaposing the Black and White Gender Gap: Race and Gender Differentiation in College Enrollment Predictors*

2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
pp. 1245-1266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomeka Davis ◽  
Bobette Otto
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
College Enrollment ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Gender Differentiation ◽  
And Gender

Boys, Girls, and the Second Shift: Paid and Unpaid Labor in High School and Adolescents’ Enrollment in College

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-192
Author(s):  
Heidi Obach ◽  
Angran Li ◽  
Simon Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
College Enrollment ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Unpaid Labor ◽  
Second Shift

Sociological research examines the gender gap reversal in higher education and the gender division in paid and unpaid labor for adult women, especially “the second shift literature,” as two distinct topics. In this study, we extend the insights of the second shift literature to research on youth labor and adolescents’ enrollment in higher education. Using data from the Youth Development Study from 1988 to 1992, we find that the negative association of unpaid labor with adolescents’ college enrollment odds was at least as large as, if not greater than, that of paid labor. Although labor engagement had adverse impacts both for female and male adolescents during this time, the negative associations of youth labor with college enrollment were more pronounced for male students. We discuss the implications of these findings and explain their relevance to more contemporary cohorts of high school students in the conclusion.

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