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Source: Department of Sociology, Florida State University
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Reynolds, John R. |
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The Gender Gap in College Expectations: Further Evidence of Boys Falling Behind Working Paper, Department of Sociology, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL, September 2001 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Department of Sociology, Florida State University Keyword(s): College Degree; College Education; Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Gender; Hispanics; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines changes in the college expectations of adolescent girls and boys from 1976 to 1999. During this time period, girls became more certain than boys that they would complete a college degree or attend professional/graduate school. The new gender gap in college expectations is most pronounced among Whites. For Hispanics and Blacks, girls' expectations have risen faster than boys' except in lower income families. One proximate cause of these trends is that girls who make good grades no longer hold themselves back from planning to pursue post-secondary education. |
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Reynolds, John R. "The Gender Gap in College Expectations: Further Evidence of Boys Falling Behind." Working Paper, Department of Sociology, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL, September 2001. |
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Reynolds, John R. Boyd, Emily Burge, Stephanie Harris, Brandy Robbins, Cheryl |
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Does Being Planful Always Pay Off? Agency, Economics, and Achievements by Midlife Working Paper, Department of Sociology, Florida State University, May 2004. Also: http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~jreynold/nlsy.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Sociology, Florida State University Keyword(s): Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Educational Attainment; Life Course; Occupational Aspirations; Occupational Attainment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Drawing from life course research on agency and structural constraint in the transition to adulthood, this paper measures the influences of planful competence and labor market conditions on adolescents' educational and occupational plans, changes in their career plans over three years, and their achievements at midlife. Adolescents with a purposive orientation toward life combined with general and practical knowledge have more ambitious career plans, more stable plans in young adulthood, and greater educational and occupational achievements by early midlife. Local labor markets are not strongly associated with plans or achievements, though poor local economic conditions do decrease the positive impact of planful competence on early plans for schooling and on occupational attainment at midlife. Important incongruities between early expectations and achievements at midlife exist across race/ethnic groups and between women and men; however, the benefits of adolescent planful competence are comparable across race, class, and gender....This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a multistage, stratified, national random sample of non-institutionalized young men and women living in the United States who were ages 14 to 22 years in 1979....We use data from the 1979, 1982, and 1992 waves to study planful competence and career expectations in late adolescence, changes in career expectations from late adolescence to early adulthood, and achievements in work and schooling by early midlife. |
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Reynolds, John R., Emily Boyd, Stephanie Burge, Brandy Harris and Cheryl Robbins. "Does Being Planful Always Pay Off? Agency, Economics, and Achievements by Midlife." Working Paper, Department of Sociology, Florida State University, May 2004. |