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Source: Wall Street Journal
Resulting in 12 citations.
1. Biggs, Andrew G.
College Grads Need Jobs, Not a Lower Loan Rate
Wall Street Journal, Opinion, May 3, 2012.
Also: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304050304577375572771360252
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Dow Jones, Inc.
Keyword(s): College Graduates; Economic Changes/Recession; Labor Market Outcomes; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty; Wages

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Young workers who enter the labor force in a recession suffer years of lower wages. [News media article partially based on Kahn, Lisa B. "The Long-Term Labor Market Consequences of Graduating From College in a Bad Economy." Labour Economics 17,2 (April 2010): 303-316]
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Biggs, Andrew G. "College Grads Need Jobs, Not a Lower Loan Rate." Wall Street Journal, Opinion, May 3, 2012.
2. Crispell, Diane
For Many Older Women, Classrooms are Alluring
Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition), (November 26, 1993): B1
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: Dow Jones, Inc.
Keyword(s): Training, On-the-Job; Women's Education; Women's Studies

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According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey, 41 percent of women aged 42 to 57 in 1979 received some formal education or training within the next 10 years. Company training was the most common: Approximately 24 percent of the women took part in training programs offered by their employers, while 15 percent went to 4-year colleges, and 11 percent went to high schools, night schools, or community colleges.
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Crispell, Diane. "For Many Older Women, Classrooms are Alluring." Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition), (November 26, 1993): B1.
3. Crispell, Diane
Women Who Get Ahead May Not Get Richer
Wall Street Journal, April 29, 1994, Section B; Page 1 Column 1
Cohort(s): NLS General
Publisher: Dow Jones, Inc.
Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Wage Differentials; Wage Dynamics; Wage Growth; Women; Women's Studies

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People Patterns column reports study by National Longitudinal Surveys sponsored by Bureau of Labor Statistics found that working women who get promotions usually get raises but not always with only 87% actually receiving increases in pay.
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Crispell, Diane. "Women Who Get Ahead May Not Get Richer." Wall Street Journal, April 29, 1994, Section B; Page 1 Column 1.
4. Crispell, Diane
Women Who Get Ahead May Not Get Richer
Wall Street Journal, April 25, 1994, Section B; Page 1
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Dow Jones, Inc.
Keyword(s): Economics of Gender; Employment; Gender Differences; Wage Differentials; Wage Gap; Wage Growth; Women

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People Patterns column reports study by National Longitudinal Surveys sponsored by Bureau of Labor Statistics found that working women who get promotions usually get raises but not always with only 87% actually receiving increases in pay (M)
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Crispell, Diane. "Women Who Get Ahead May Not Get Richer." Wall Street Journal, April 25, 1994, Section B; Page 1.
5. Gallagher, Maggie
Fatherless Boys Grow Up Into Dangerous Men
Wall Street Journal, (1 December 1998): A,22,3
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Dow Jones, Inc.
Keyword(s): Arrests; Crime; Divorce; Family Formation; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Biological; Parents, Single; Poverty; Remarriage

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Gallagher (by-line) an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values and a nationally syndicated columnist writes: "Coincidence? Between 1980 and 1990 the homicide arrest rate for juveniles jumped 87%. Following rapid changes in family formation in the 1970s, youth violence rose sharply in the 1980s and '90s, even while it declined for adults over age 25. Such correlations are merely hints that fatherlessness causes crime. Until recently, scientific evidence has been hard to come by. Researchers had long suspected a link between father absence and crime, but few had access to the kind of large nationally representative database needed to rule out alternative theories. Since boys raised by single parents disproportionately come from disadvantaged backgrounds, maybe it was not fatherlessness but poverty or discrimination that put them at risk of crime. Nor could most of these earlier studies distinguish between different sorts of disrupted families: Was it just children of unwed mothers who were at risk, or did divorce have similarly negative effects? Is a stepfather as good as a biological dad? How much does remarriage, which dramatically raises family income, do to restore to children the protection of a two-parent home? To answer questions like these, Cynthia Harper, a demographer at the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco, along with Princeton's Sara McLanahan, one of the nation's top family scholars, undertook what few researchers had in the past: a longitudinal look at how family structure affects serious crime, using a large national database, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Their study offers a unique opportunity to calculate the true costs of family breakdown and to compare different theories about the "root causes" of crime."
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Gallagher, Maggie. "Fatherless Boys Grow Up Into Dangerous Men." Wall Street Journal, (1 December 1998): A,22,3.
6. Herrnstein, Richard J.
Murray, Charles A.
Aristocracy of Intelligence
Wall Street Journal, 224, (October 10, 1994): A12
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Dow Jones, Inc.
Keyword(s): Cognitive Ability; I.Q.; Intelligence; Intelligence Tests; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Underclass

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Opinion. Assesses correlation between intelligence of American people and their cognitive ability and socioeconomic status analyzing National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data. Details of the analysis; Source of the article in an essay by same authors from 'The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life'. PUBLISHER: Wall Street Journal
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Herrnstein, Richard J. and Charles A. Murray. "Aristocracy of Intelligence." Wall Street Journal, 224, (October 10, 1994): A12.
7. Herrnstein, Richard J.
Murray, Charles A.
Race, Pathology and IQ
Wall Street Journal, 224, (October 10, 1994): A12
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Dow Jones, Inc.
Keyword(s): Cognitive Ability; I.Q.; Intelligence; Intelligence Tests; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Underclass

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Opinion. Compares effect of differences in race and IQ among Americans on their social status and habits. Correlation of intelligence and race differential with employment and illegitimacy according to study of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth's database.
Bibliography Citation
Herrnstein, Richard J. and Charles A. Murray. "Race, Pathology and IQ." Wall Street Journal, 224, (October 10, 1994): A12.
8. Millman, Joel
Moving Up: Challenges to the American Dream; Slow Train: Promotion Track Fades for Those Starting at Bottom; Decline of In-House Training, Rise of Outsourcing Leave More Stuck in Menial Jobs; Lessons From N.Y.'s Subways
Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition, (June 5, 2005): A1.
Also: http://online.wsj.com/wsjgate?subURI=%2Farticle%2F0%2C%2CSB111802315797151471%2Demail%2C00%2Ehtml&nonsubURI=%2Farticle%5Femail%2F0%2C%2CSB111802315797151471%2DIBjgYNklaF4n5unaoCGcauHm4%2C00%2Ehtml
Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men
Publisher: Dow Jones, Inc.
Keyword(s): Wage Levels; Wages; Wages, Men

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Mentions research by Annette Bernhardt that used NLS data to examine salary levels of low-wage workers over time.
Bibliography Citation
Millman, Joel. "Moving Up: Challenges to the American Dream; Slow Train: Promotion Track Fades for Those Starting at Bottom; Decline of In-House Training, Rise of Outsourcing Leave More Stuck in Menial Jobs; Lessons From N.Y.'s Subways." Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition, (June 5, 2005): A1.
9. Moss, Michael
Marguerite Ables, 68, Finds Her Life's Work Can't Get Her a Job
The Wall Street Journal, 60, September 24, 1997: 1
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: Dow Jones, Inc.
Keyword(s): Age and Ageing; Income Level; Job Search; Job Skills; Job Tenure

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Marguerite Ables has been a homemaker for most of the past five decades, raising three children and watching four grandchildren and a great-grandson grow up. Now at age 68 she is trying to join the work force. Her metro area is bursting with jobs. But as she runs her index finger down the columns of the help wanted ads. Mrs. Ables quickly winnows her options. Her resume is almost entirely blank. Amid the growing ranks of older workers are women like Mrs. Ables who have spent most of their lives at home. Having outlived their husbands--or a least their marriages they increasingly find themselves in their 60s or 70s with good health, but too much time on their hands and not enough money to live comfortably. Yet despite low unemployment what some discover is that they are quite literally, among the last people anyone would want to hire. No one charts these homemakers turned laborers, incidental as they are to the economy. But a continuing study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statis tics, called the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, indicates that 240,000 women age 55 to 69 will take a job this year after not having worked for at least 20 years. Thousands more will look without success.
Bibliography Citation
Moss, Michael. "Marguerite Ables, 68, Finds Her Life's Work Can't Get Her a Job." The Wall Street Journal, 60, September 24, 1997: 1.
10. Wall Street Journal
People Patterns: Women Who Get Ahead May Not Get Richer
The Wall Street Journal, April 25, 1994, Section B; page 1 column 1
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: Dow Jones, Inc.
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Demography; Women

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According to the National Longitudinal Surveys sponsored by the BLS and conducted by the Center for Human Resource Research of the Ohio State University, among working women aged 37 to 48 in 1991, 14% received a promotion in the past year.
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Wall Street Journal. "People Patterns: Women Who Get Ahead May Not Get Richer." The Wall Street Journal, April 25, 1994, Section B; page 1 column 1.
11. Wessler, David
As Wealth Gap Widens, Class Mobility Stalls
The Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2005: A1
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Dow Jones, Inc.
Keyword(s): Fathers and Sons; Income Dynamics/Shocks; Mobility, Economic; Mobility, Social

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First of a series of articles about new evidence that points to shrinking economic mobility in the United States. Mentions research by Melissa Osborne Groves that used NLS data to explain father-son income links though similarities in attitudes about life. Also cites research by Bhashkar Mazumder using NLS data in conjunction with Social Security records to compare the economic achievement of fathers with their sons.
Bibliography Citation
Wessler, David. "As Wealth Gap Widens, Class Mobility Stalls." The Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2005: A1.
12. Wilson, James Q.
The Family Way: Treating Fathers As Optional Has Brought Big Social Costs
Wall Street Journal, Opinion Journal, January 7, 2003.
Also: http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0301/wsj030107.htm
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Dow Jones, Inc.
Keyword(s): Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Family Structure; Family Studies; Fathers, Absence

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On the deepest matters of cultural and social affairs, the best guide is to reflect on human experience. This means looking backward at those experiences, and conservatives are more inclined to do this than are liberals. Conservatives get a lot of grief for this. After all, looking backward sometimes means failing to endorse bold and desirable changes. One such change was the guess by a few men in Philadelphia in the 18th century that a government based on a written constitution, federalism, separated powers and carefully defined authority would succeed in rationalizing the need for human freedom with the imperatives of national defense. Another was the argument in the 1960s that legislation endorsing civil rights was a good idea. Both were very good guesses. But in my view these successful examples of looking forward do not bear on cultural and social policy. The Constitutional Convention and the civil rights movement were guesses about how to create new political and legal institutions. Today, however, many of our most important problems are about how we live with one another. To think about these clearly, we must understand our centuries-old experience with love, honor, loyalty, friendship, family and patriotism. These feelings shape child-rearing, decent conduct and personal integrity. Almost everybody wants these things, but many of us try to alter the human emotions that supply them. The past provides guides about how people in fact live and think; the future supplies theories about how people might live and think, provided a variety of assumptions are somehow met. But the assumptions are rarely met. I am struck by how often in the past half-century, looking backward--the conservative way--has provided a better guide to action than has looking forward.
Bibliography Citation
Wilson, James Q. "The Family Way: Treating Fathers As Optional Has Brought Big Social Costs." Wall Street Journal, Opinion Journal, January 7, 2003.