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Burns, Frances Ann |
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'Like Father, Like Son' Holds True for Income Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1991, Part D; Page 2 Column 5 Cohort(s): Older Men, Young Men Publisher: Los Angeles Times Keyword(s): Fathers and Children; Income; Income Dynamics/Shocks; Mobility; Poverty; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. There's a simple way to get a leg up toward a good lifetime income -- be the son of a high-income father. A Princeton University economist who studied 876 pairs of fathers and sons found that sons of fathers in low-income brackets tend to end up in the same bracket and vice versa. David Zimmerman, a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton, said his study shows "that there is much less mobility in the United States economy than had previously been believed." Zimmerman used the National Longitudinal Survey, a database assembled at Ohio State University that tracked two groups of older and younger men for 15 years. He found 876 father-son pairs. Looking at information on income and job type, Zimmerman found that 40% of the sons whose fathers were in the bottom 25% in income in 1965 were in the same quartile themselves in 1980 and 69% were in the lower half. Only 12% had risen to the top 25%. |
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Burns, Frances Ann. "'Like Father, Like Son' Holds True for Income." Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1991, Part D; Page 2 Column 5. |
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Burns, Frances Ann |
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Income Study Says, Like Father, Like Son Los Angeles Times, March 17, 1991, Part A; Page 34 Column 1 Cohort(s): Older Men, Young Men Publisher: Los Angeles Times Keyword(s): Fathers and Children; Income; Income Dynamics/Shocks; Poverty; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. There's a simple way to get a leg up toward a good lifetime income -- be the son of a high-income father. A Princeton University economist who studied 876 pairs of fathers and sons found that sons of fathers in low-income brackets tend to end up in the same bracket, and vice versa. David Zimmerman, a lecturer and doctoral candidate at Princeton, used the National Longitudinal Survey, a database assembled at Ohio State University that tracked two groups of older and younger men for 15 years. He found 876 father-son pairs. Looking at information on income and job type, Zimmerman found that 40% of the sons whose fathers were in the bottom 25% in income in 1965 were in the same bracket themselves in 1980 and 69% were in the lower half. Only 12% had risen to the top 25%. At the same time, 41% of the sons with fathers in the top 25% in income were in that bracket 15 years later and 9% were in the lowest income group. Although his sample included only working people, Zimmerman suggested that his findings may indicate that welfare is not the trap some people have thought, breeding dependence across generations. What we may be seeing when the children of parents on welfare go on welfare themselves is "the intergenerational transmission of poverty," he said. |
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Burns, Frances Ann. "Income Study Says, Like Father, Like Son." Los Angeles Times, March 17, 1991, Part A; Page 34 Column 1. |
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Healy, Melissa |
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Size Does Matter After All: Her Bigger Paycheck May Drive Him to Cheat Los Angeles Times, August 17, 2010. Also: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/17/news/la-heb-infidelity-20100816 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Los Angeles Times Keyword(s): Gender Attitudes/Roles; Gender Differences; Income Level; Racial Differences; Sexual Activity; Unemployment; Wage Differentials Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Being in a relationship with a female partner who earns more than he does can make a man feel less of a man, Cornell University sociologist Christin Munsch told colleagues Monday in Atlanta, Ga., at the annual confab of the American Sociological Assn. To affirm and restore his battered sense of manhood, a man may feel he needs to go outside the relationship in search of sexual conquest, she said. Combing through the responses of a nationally representative sample collected in the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the last such survey to have been done, Munsch found that for men who ranked low in terms of their economic dependence on a female partner, the probability of infidelity was relatively low. With every upward click of Munsch's measure of male economic dependence on a female partner, men were more likely to cheat. (Excerpts from newspaper article) |
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Healy, Melissa. "Size Does Matter After All: Her Bigger Paycheck May Drive Him to Cheat." Los Angeles Times, August 17, 2010. |
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Roan, Shari |
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Many Women Have Children By More Than One Man Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2011, BOOSTER SHOTS, Oddities, Musings and News from the Health World: pg. Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Los Angeles Times Keyword(s): Divorce; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Biological; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Marital Status; Parents, Single; Stress; Women's Studies Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. More than one-quarter of U.S. women with two or more children have children with more than one man, according to a new study, the first national survey of "multiple partner fertility." The study found that, overall, 28% of women with two or more children had children by different men. The rate was 59% among African American women with two or more children compared with 35% among Hispanic women and 22% among white women, said the author of the study Cassandra Dorius, a demographer at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Dorius presented her study Friday at the annual meeting of the Population Assn. of America. The study was unique because it analyzed data from almost 4,000 women who were interviewed more than 20 times over a 27-year period. The women had completed their child-bearing years by the time of the final interview. Dorius found that having children by more than one man is a phenomenon that impacts all racial, income and educational sub-groups. It is tied to marriage and divorce as well as single parenthood. The impact of multiple partner fertility is important, she said. "Raising children who have different fathers is a major factor in the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage," Dorius said in a news release. "Juggling all of the different needs and demands of fathers in at least two households, four or more pairs of grandparents, and two or more children, creates a huge set of chronic stressors that families have to deal with for decades." The women who had multiple fathers for their children said they ended up having more children than they had said was "ideal" when they were young adults. |
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Roan, Shari. "Many Women Have Children By More Than One Man." Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2011, BOOSTER SHOTS, Oddities, Musings and News from the Health World: pg. |
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Roan, Shari |
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Stay-at-Home Moms Have the Hardest Job Los Angeles Times, August 20, 2011, BOOSTER SHOTS, Oddities, musings and news from the health world: pg. Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Los Angeles Times Keyword(s): Depression (see also CESD); Employment; Health Factors; Labor Force Participation; Motherhood; Mothers; Mothers, Behavior; Mothers, Health Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Women who stay at home raising children are more likely than working mothers to have symptoms of depression, a new study finds. But working mothers who strongly believe they should be able to have fulfilling and successful work and family lives are probably setting themselves up for disappointment too. The study found that those working women with a "supermom" complex are more likely to feel frustration and guilt compared to working mothers who expect difficulties balancing work and family life. The research was presented Saturday (August 20, 2011) at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Assn. in Las Vegas. "Women who expect it's going to be hard and are employed nevertheless have better mental health outcomes," said the study's author, Katrina Leupp, a University of Washington sociology graduate student. "Work-family conflict is much more likely to bring about feelings of guilt for women as compared to men -- guilt for the things you can't do." Leupp analyzed data from 1,600 women who participated in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth as young adults and answered questions about their beliefs and expectations of work-family life. When the women were 40, Leupp measured their levels of depression. The findings on stay-at-home mothers support other research that shows working outside the home is good for a woman's mental health. Stay-at-home moms may have higher levels of depression because they want to be employed but find the cost of childcare too high to make a job worthwhile. |
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Roan, Shari. "Stay-at-Home Moms Have the Hardest Job." Los Angeles Times, August 20, 2011, BOOSTER SHOTS, Oddities, musings and news from the health world: pg. |