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Author: Tunalilar, Ozcan
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1. Tunalilar, Ozcan
White, Robert G.
Constructing Comparable Cohorts Using the NLSY79-CHYA: A Propensity Score Weighting Approach
Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Mobility, Social; Propensity Scores; Sampling Weights/Weighting

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Children in the NLSY79-CHYA are not representative of their cohorts in the population due to design effects, rendering the dataset impractical to study the period-driven mechanisms of educational and economic mobility in the United States. This is unfortunate considering the richness of the dataset in terms of family history and measures of socioemotional development alongside other benefits. In the current study, we adopt a propensity score weighting procedure to construct and analyze multiple, comparable birth cohorts to study the changing importance of socioemotional skills in educational mobility in the United States. This approach allows accounting for changes in the distributions of family background between cohorts and constructing cohorts suitable for period-driven comparisons. The results are promising for potentially expanding the use of the NLSY79-CHYA in empirical research related to social mobility and inequality.
Bibliography Citation
Tunalilar, Ozcan and Robert G. White. "Constructing Comparable Cohorts Using the NLSY79-CHYA: A Propensity Score Weighting Approach." Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016.
2. Tunalilar, Ozcan
White, Robert G.
Pathways to Childlessness in the United States: A Group-Based Analysis of Employment and Marital Union Trajectories
Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Childbearing; Educational Attainment; Labor Force Participation; Marital Status

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The rate of permanent childlessness has been increasing in the United States for the last three decades. To identify distinct origins of childlessness, I examine lifetime patterns of education, employment and marriage between the ages of 18 and 44. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979-2010), I identify trajectories of educational attainment, labor force attachment and marital status separately for men and women, and link them to likelihood of remaining childless. White, never-married men and women are more likely to remain childless. Family background has differential effects for remaining childless by sex. Early transition to labor force was highly influential for women’s likelihood of remaining childless but not for men’s. The reverse was true for the effect of timing of first marriage. The distinct trajectories men and women follow to childlessness illustrates the lifelong patterns of accumulating risks for childlessness.
Bibliography Citation
Tunalilar, Ozcan and Robert G. White. "Pathways to Childlessness in the United States: A Group-Based Analysis of Employment and Marital Union Trajectories." Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013.
3. Tunalilar, Ozcan
White, Robert G.
The Growing Importance of Socioemotional Skills for Academic Achievement in the United States
Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Achievement; Attention/Attention Deficit; Behavior, Antisocial; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Schooling; Social Emotional Development

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Evidence that socioemotional skills related to attentiveness and anti-social behavior are closely tied to academic achievement underscores the importance of the broad range of skills required for school success in modern America. Using two birth cohorts born during early 1980s and 1990s, we find that the importance of these skills is a relatively recent phenomenon. We select two cohorts of adolescents from the NLSY97 and the children of the NLSY79 to assess changes in the effects of attentiveness and anti-social behaviors in models of school achievement. We adopt a propensity score weighting procedure to account for changes in the distributions of family background between cohorts and construct cohorts suitable for comparison. The estimated increase in the effect of socioemotional skills for achievement illustrates how these skills present an emerging additional axis for educational inequalities.
Bibliography Citation
Tunalilar, Ozcan and Robert G. White. "The Growing Importance of Socioemotional Skills for Academic Achievement in the United States." Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014.