Gender and Educational Differentials in Marital Sorting of Hispanic Young Adults

2021 ◽  
Vol 696 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-197
Author(s):  
Kate H. Choi ◽  
Marta Tienda
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
American Community Survey ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
The Past ◽  
Marital Sorting ◽  
Using Data ◽  
College Educated

Over the past few decades, Hispanic young adults have made impressive gains in educational attainment, but improvements have not been even by gender, with Latinas now averaging more schooling than Latinos. These developments in education have implications for Latinx marital sorting behavior and the marriage conditions that they face. Using data from the American Community Survey, we examine intermarriage patterns of Hispanics ages 25 to 34, focusing on gender differences in assortative mating along ethnic and educational lines. We show that college-educated Latinos are less likely than both their lesser-educated peers and college-educated Latinas to marry partners who are less educated than themselves. We also reveal that highly educated Latinas are more likely than Latinos with comparable levels of education to intermarry. We discuss implications for the intergenerational maintenance of Hispanicity as an ethno-race, and for their ability to transmit the socioeconomic gains obtained via educational improvements to future generations of Hispanics.

scholarly journals From Major Preferences to Major Choices: Gender and Logics of Major Choice

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Quadlin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Major Choice ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
American Community Survey ◽  
Economic Returns ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data

Research shows that college students choose majors for a variety of reasons. Some students are motivated by potential economic returns, others want to take engaging classes, and others still would like opportunities to help people in their jobs. But how do these preferences map onto students’ actual major choices? This question is particularly intriguing in light of gender differences in fields of study, as men and women may take divergent pathways in pursuit of the same outcome. Using data from the Pathways through College Study (N = 2,639), I show that men and women choose very different majors even when they cite the same major preferences—what I call gendered logics of major choice. In addition, I use earnings data from the American Community Survey to assess how these gendered logics of major choice may be associated with broader patterns of earnings inequality. I find that among men and women who have the same major preferences, men’s major choices are tied to significantly higher prospective earnings than women’s major choices. This finding demonstrates that the ways men and women translate their preferences into majors are unequal from an earnings perspective. Implications for research on higher education and gender are discussed.

Time perspective and autobiographical memory: Individual and gender differences in experiencing time and remembering the past

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Ely ◽  
Andrea Mercurio
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Big Five Inventory ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
The Past ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Memory Questionnaire

This study examined the degree to which time perspectives were associated with the processes and content of autobiographical memory. A sample of 230 young adults (118 women) completed the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI; Zimbardo and Boyd, 1999 ), the Big Five Inventory (BFI; John and Srivastava, 1999 ), and responded in writing to seven memory prompts as well as to items from the Autobiographical Memory Questionnaire (AMQ; Rubin et al., 2003 ). The Past Positive and Future subscales of the ZTPI predicted many aspects of memory even when controlling for BFI traits. There were gender differences in time perspectives and gender moderated a number of the correlations between time perspectives and autobiographical memory.

Examining the Interstate Mobility of Recent College Graduates

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-215
Author(s):  
Robert Kelchen ◽  
Douglas A. Webber
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
State Level ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
American Community Survey ◽  
Important Goal ◽  
The Past ◽  
Important Policy

An increasingly important goal of state policymakers is to keep young, well-educated adults to remain in that state instead of moving elsewhere after college, as evidenced by New York’s recent move to tie state grant aid to staying in state after graduation. We used American Community Survey data from 2005–2015 to examine the prevalence of interstate mobility over the past decade as well as provide state-level rates of “brain drain.” We found substantial variations in interstate mobility across states, which has important policy implications.

scholarly journals How Race Counts for Latinx Homeownership

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052097408
Author(s):  
Brandon P. Martinez ◽  
Alan A. Aja
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
American Community Survey ◽  
White Families ◽  
Racial Wealth Gap ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Home Values ◽  
Housing Outcomes

In recent decades, the racial wealth gap has widened with extant literature reporting that Black and Latinx families hold fewer assets than white families. One such asset that receives substantial attention because of its wealth-generating principles is homeownership. Whereas intergroup homeownership inequalities are found throughout the literature, less is known about racialized inequality within groups. Latinxs provide a novel case for exploring how racialized homeownership inequality is structured within an ethnic group. Using data from the American Community Survey, we examine the odds of homeownership and predicted logged home values among Latinxs. We find that the association between race and housing outcomes varies substantially across Latinx groups. Drawing from theories of Latinx racial identity and the future of racial structures, we discuss the implications of our findings for understanding racial inequality among Latinx groups.

scholarly journals ‘TIL DEATH DO US PART? DECLINING WIDOWHOOD AND RISING GRAY DIVORCE, 1980-2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S805-S806
Author(s):  
Susan L Brown ◽  
I-Fen Lin
Keyword(s):  
Divorce Rate ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
American Community Survey ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sociodemographic Correlates ◽  
Married Individuals ◽  
Divorce Rates

Abstract Roughly one-third of dissolutions among married persons aged 50 and older occur through divorce rather than widowhood, reflecting the rising gray divorce rate and lengthening life expectancies. We use data from the 1980 Vital Statistics and the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) to estimate the divorce and widowhood rates among married individuals (aged 50+) in 1980 and 2017 to track how much the widowhood rate has declined and the divorce rate has risen. In 1980, women’s widowhood rates exceeded their divorce rates at all ages. For men, the rate of divorce outpaced the rate of widowhood through ages 50-54. By 2017, divorce rates were higher for women through ages 55-59 and for men through ages 60-64, coinciding with the growth in gray divorce. We also examine subgroup variation in the 2017 patterns and the sociodemographic correlates of having experienced divorce versus widowhood during the past year using the ACS data.

scholarly journals Estimating the Population Sizes of Men Who Have Sex With Men in US States and Counties Using Data From the American Community Survey

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. e14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy A Grey ◽  
Kyle T Bernstein ◽  
Patrick S Sullivan ◽  
David W Purcell ◽  
Harrell W Chesson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Survey ◽  
American Community Survey ◽  
Us States ◽  
Population Sizes ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Using Data

Does substance use play a role in gender differences in residential independence and returns to the parental home?

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cody Warner ◽  
Emily Cady
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Adolescent Females ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood ◽  
Home Leaving

Young adults are co-residing with their parents at higher rates now than in the past, and recent research has explored the correlates of both leaving and subsequently returning to the parental home. Of relevance here, females tend to leave home earlier than their male counterparts, and research finds that drinking and drug use are also linked to residential transitions. This research note explores if substance use during adolescence and young adulthood plays a role in gender differences in home-leaving and home-returning. We find that marijuana use plays a role in both home-leaving and home-returning, with adolescent females who use marijuana the most at risk for early exits from home, and marijuana using males the most at risk for home-returning.

scholarly journals Do Affirmative Action Bans Cause Students to Move Across State Lines to Attend College?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Peter L. Hinrichs
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
Decennial Census ◽  
American Community Survey ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Education Markets

This Economic Commentary studies whether statewide bans on affirmative action in admission to public universities cause students to move to a new state to attend college. Regression results using data from the decennial census and the American Community Survey provide little evidence that affirmative action bans result in migration across state lines to attend college. In addition to being of direct interest, these results provide a check on earlier research that treats different states roughly as separate higher education markets.

scholarly journals Young Adults’ Roles as Partners and Parents in the Context of Family Complexity

2014 ◽  
Vol 654 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence M. Berger ◽  
Sharon H. Bzostek
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Family Roles ◽  
The Past ◽  
Family Complexity ◽  
Using Data

Using data from the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we estimate the proportions of young men and women who will take on a variety of partner and parent roles by age 30, and describe how these estimates have changed between cohorts. We then draw on identity theory and related theoretical work to consider how the multiple family roles that young adults are likely to occupy—both over their life course and at a single point in time—may influence interfamily and intrafamily relationships. Our discussion highlights key implications of identity theory as it relates to family complexity and proposes several hypotheses for future empirical research, such as the greater likelihood of role conflict in families with greater complexity and limited resources. Our analysis suggests that families may be less likely to function—economically and socially—as cohesive units than has been the case in the past and than most existing policies assume.

You Are Where You Are From

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-89
Author(s):  
Robin Mejia
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
American Community Survey ◽  
United States Census ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Way

Using data from the United States Census 2013 American Community Survey, Robin Mejia looks at the way geography affects a person’s health, wealth, education, and prospects in life.

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