Gender Differential Effect of College on Socio-Political Orientation Over the Last 40 Years—a Propensity Score Weighting approach

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.31235/osf.io/25yux ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Achim Edelmann ◽

Stephen Vaisey

Keyword(s):

General Social Survey ◽

College Attendance ◽

Political Orientation ◽

Social Survey ◽

Men And Women ◽

Inverse Probability ◽

Political Identification ◽

Specific Effects ◽

Gender Differential ◽

Gender Specific

It is well-known that the more educated people are, the more liberal views they tend to express. However, it is unclear whether this is due to college attendance itself or because those who go to college differ from those who do not in ways (directly or indirectly) related to their later political identification. In this paper, we therefore attempt to estimate the effect of college on political identification net of people’s tendencies to select into college using an inverse probability of treatment weighting approach. Based on data from the General Social Survey, we analyze how this effect has changed over time and whether college affects the political identification of women in the same ways as that of men. We find evidence consistent with the argument that college attendance politicizes both men and women. Moreover, we show that not only the general, but also the gender specific effects change markedly across the decades. This raises questions about the different mechanisms at play in how college mobilizes men and women politically.

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Higher Education, Bigger Networks? Differences by Family Socioeconomic Background and Network Measures

Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World ◽

10.1177/2378023118797217 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 237802311879721 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Matthew A. Andersson

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

General Social Survey ◽

College Attendance ◽

Socioeconomic Background ◽

Socioeconomically Disadvantaged ◽

Social Survey ◽

Parental Background ◽

Community Ties ◽

Health Returns ◽

Disadvantaged Families

Income or health returns linked to obtaining a college degree often are greatest for individuals who come from socioeconomically disadvantaged families. Although this importantly suggests that college lessens many forms of inequality linked to parental socioeconomic status, empirical knowledge about adult network inequality remains limited. Drawing on the 1972–2014 General Social Survey, the author finds that higher education associates on average with a greater number of nonkin and community ties. However, college gains in nonkin networks and capital exist mostly among those coming from disadvantaged families, suggesting that college may substitute or compensate for otherwise limited networks. In contrast, differences in frequency of socializing by higher education are not conditioned by parental background. As a whole, the present findings suggest that college attendance may lessen life-course network inequality within the general population.

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Judeo-Christian Attitudes Toward Employed Women

Psychology of Women Quarterly ◽

10.1111/j.1471-6402.2000.tb00195.x ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 145-147 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Michael L. Harville ◽

Beth M. Rienzi

Keyword(s):

Religious Affiliation ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Working Women ◽

Social Survey ◽

Men And Women ◽

National Opinion Research ◽

Religious Women ◽

Employed Women ◽

The Relationship ◽

Beliefs And Attitudes

The relationship between Judeo-Christian beliefs and attitudes toward employed women was examined. Participants ( N = 9,742) responded to the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey (Davis & Smith, 1996a). Attitudes toward employed women varied by strength of religiosity, gender, religious affiliation, and year; as strength of religiosity increased, attitudes became more traditional. Men had more traditional attitudes than women. The women who are more religious had attitudes that were more conservative than less religious women. Christians had more traditional attitudes than Jews and the nonreligious. Between 1985 and 1996, attitudes became less traditional. These findings suggest that attitudes toward working women are changing in a gradual manner, but that men and women hold very different attitudes about working women, even within the same religious affiliation.

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Age and the Desire to Marry

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x06297272 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 28 (5) ◽

pp. 706-723 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Jenna Mahay ◽

Alisa C. Lewin

Keyword(s):

General Social Survey ◽

Marriage Market ◽

Age Difference ◽

Social Survey ◽

Men And Women ◽

Large Numbers ◽

Attitudes Toward Marriage ◽

Gains From Marriage ◽

Using Data ◽

Single Men

Understanding attitudes toward marriage at older ages is increasingly important as young adults delay marriage and large numbers of people return to the marriage market after divorce. This study examines age differences in the desire to marry among singles age 18 to 69 years, taking into account selection into marriage. Using data drawn from the General Social Survey (GSS), multinomial regressions show that single men and women age 55 to 69 years have less desire to marry than younger single men and women. This age difference in single people's desire to marry is not fully explained by differences in factors that are likely to affect the real or perceived gains from marriage, such as personal resources, children, experience of divorce, or religiosity.

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An assessment of heterogeneity in first home-returning trends of young Canadians

Canadian Studies in Population ◽

10.25336/p66s49 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 38 (1-2) ◽

pp. 19 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jean-Michel Billette ◽

Céline Le Bourdais ◽

Benoît Laplante

Keyword(s):

Family History ◽

Detailed Analysis ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Significant Part ◽

Social Survey ◽

Men And Women ◽

Demographic Profiles

This study uses data taken from the 2001 General Social Survey on family history (GSS, Cycle 15) to examine home-returning among Canadian men and women born in 1942–76. In addition to conducting a detailed analysis of the numerous factors at play in determining the likelihood of home-returning, we pay specific attention to the timing of the transition and provide an estimation of the overall influence of unobserved characteristics that contribute to generate home-returners. Results suggest that early, intermediate, and late home-returners have different socio-demographic profiles and that unobserved characteristics play a significant part in the determination of home-returning.

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Daily Spiritual Experiences: Examining Measurement Invariance by Gender in a Nationally Representative Sample

10.31219/osf.io/wh4fg ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Joe Chelladurai

Keyword(s):

Measurement Invariance ◽

General Social Survey ◽

The United States ◽

Spiritual Experiences ◽

Social Survey ◽

Men And Women ◽

Nested Models ◽

Daily Spiritual Experiences ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

Daily Spiritual Experience Scale

In this paper, I examine the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES) for measurement invariance across men and women. Data for this analysis is from the General Social Survey, a nationally representative dataset of participants from the United States. Using lavaan and semPlot packages in R, I created nested models to test for levels of invariance. Results indicated that a brief 5-item DSES construct achieved scalar invariance across groups, suggesting that the construct holds true for both men and women. These findings add support for testing gender differences for DSES using the brief 5-item DSES construct.

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How Does Education Promote the Mobility of Social Class?: Empirical Analysis Based on CGSS2017

Scientific and Social Research ◽

10.36922/ssr.v3i2.1113 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 103-108

Author(s):

Zhenni Cai ◽

Yue Li ◽

Ruiying Chen

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Social Mobility ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Significant Positive Effect ◽

Social Survey ◽

Healthy Development ◽

Class Mobility ◽

Specific Effects ◽

Chinese General Social Survey ◽

Positive Effect

Education has been given significant responsibilities as a way of promoting social class mobility. With the development of the market economy, there is growing concerns about whether and how much more education can still change social class. This paper uses the data of Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS)2017 to examine the effects of education and marriage matching on social mobility; used multiple linear regression to explore the pathways and specific effects of education on individual social class change. It is found that education has a significant positive effect in promoting the improvement of social class, and indirectly affects the improvement of individual social class through personal income and social capital; marriage matching is also a factor to affect people’s social class, but its effect is limited and there is a two-way pattern. In response to the findings, relevant countermeasures are proposed to increase the acceptance of social mobility and promote social fairness for a healthy development of society.

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Public Conceptions of Serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse, Their Causes and Treatments: Findings from the 1996 General Social Survey

Yearbook of Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health ◽

10.1016/s0084-3970(08)70767-9 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 2008 ◽

pp. 187

Author(s):

J.A. Talbott

Keyword(s):

Substance Abuse ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Serious Mental Illness ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Social Survey

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312-OR: Gender-Specific Effects on Hepatic Fat Metabolism in Type 2 Diabetes before and after Remission

Diabetes ◽

10.2337/db20-312-or ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 69 (Supplement 1) ◽

pp. 312-OR

Author(s):

AHMAD AL-MRABEH ◽

SHADEN MELHEM ◽

SVIATLANA V. ZHYZHNEUSKAYA ◽

CARL PETERS ◽

ALISON C. BARNES ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Type 2 Diabetes ◽

Fat Metabolism ◽

Specific Effects ◽

Before And After ◽

Hepatic Fat ◽

Gender Specific

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GSS 2011 Linked with TIFF: Exploring the Cost of Child Care in Canada and the Use of the Child Care Tax Benefit

Canadian Journal of Family and Youth / Le Journal Canadien de Famille et de la Jeunesse ◽

10.29173/cjfy29492 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 81-103

Author(s):

Leanne Findlay ◽

Dafna Kohen

Keyword(s):

Child Care ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Cost Of Care ◽

Indigenous Identity ◽

Social Survey ◽

The Cost ◽

Care Costs ◽

Compare And Contrast ◽

Employment Characteristics ◽

Different Sources

Affordability of child care is fundamental to parents’, in particular, women’s decision to work. However, information on the cost of care in Canada is limited. The purpose of the current study was to examine the feasibility of using linked survey and administrative data to compare and contrast parent-reported child care costs based on two different sources of data. The linked file brings together data from the 2011 General Social Survey (GSS) and the annual tax files (TIFF) for the corresponding year (2010). Descriptive analyses were conducted to examine the socio-demographic and employment characteristics of respondents who reported using child care, and child care costs were compared. In 2011, parents who reported currently paying for child care (GSS) spent almost $6700 per year ($7,500 for children age 5 and under). According to the tax files, individuals claimed just over $3900 per year ($4,700). Approximately one in four individuals who reported child care costs on the GSS did not report any amount on their tax file; about four in ten who claimed child care on the tax file did not report any cost on the survey. Multivariate analyses suggested that individuals with a lower education, lower income, with Indigenous identity, and who were self-employed were less likely to make a tax claim despite reporting child care expenses on the GSS. Further examination of child care costs by province and by type of care are necessary, as is research to determine the most accurate way to measure and report child care costs.

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