{"title":"Racial and ethnic variation in the relationship between parental educational similarity and infant health","authors":"David Enrique Rangel , Emily Rauscher","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100887","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100887","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Evidence suggests benefits of parental educational homogamy for infant and child well-being but ignores potential racial and ethnic variation in these benefits. Increasing disparities in infant health by maternal education and race, along with increasing educational sorting, raise questions about whether educational homogamy could contribute to these disparities. Drawing on a random sample of over 4 million live births in NVSS data from 2011 to 2020 and ordinary least squares regression, this study examines the relationship between infant health, parental educational similarity, and race and ethnicity. Our findings indicate a weak overall relationship between educational sorting and infant health at birth, with significant variation by race and ethnicity. In addition, absolute education levels and marital status more strongly predict infant health than educational assortative mating. Sensitivity analyses confirm the robustness of these findings across different modeling approaches and sample sizes. Our results indicate that parental educational sorting is only weakly related to infant health and cannot explain widening infant health gaps by race.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100887"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562423001312/pdfft?md5=03580b6a6a1bad11f5887e2304eed01a&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562423001312-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139373248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cohort change in the educational gradient in women’s employment around childbirth in Japan","authors":"Ryota Mugiyama","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100885","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100885","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In contrast to many high-income countries, there is no clear positive relationship between maternal education and employment in Japan. However, recent policy, normative, and labor market changes are expected to have encouraged highly educated women to continue working, especially in regular employment, resulting in an increasing positive educational gradient. Despite this expectation, little is known about the changes in the educational gradient in recent cohorts. This paper examines the changes in the educational gradient in women’s employment around their first and second births using nationally representative panel survey data of women born in the 1960–1989 cohorts in Japan. The results show a significant increase in the positive educational gradient in employment rates around the first and second births in the 1980s cohort. Highly educated women are more likely to be in regular employment and less likely to leave employment, which contributes to their higher employment continuity. Conversely, the employment rates of women with lower levels of education have not increased to the same extent across the cohorts, and they have become more likely to be in nonstandard employment. These findings suggest that the weak relationship between maternal education and employment is changing in Japan, which may contribute to greater inequality in the labor market, household, and offspring outcomes in the future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100885"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562423001294/pdfft?md5=1f0b85cd9cc0a2e7e795ee8c83d7e078&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562423001294-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139373497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aging and the rise in bottom income inequality in Korea","authors":"ChangHwan Kim , Andrew Taeho Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100882","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100882","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Korea is one of the world’s fastest-aging societies, with poverty and low income prevalent among the elderly population. Unlike other advanced economies, where top income inequality has driven the rise in income inequality, fluctuations in income inequality in Korea in recent decades have been dominated by changes in the bottom half of the income distribution. Using data from the 1998–2016 Household Income and Expenditure Survey and the 2012–2019 Survey of Household Finances and Living Conditions, this study explores the extent to which population aging is associated with changes in the top (P90P50) and bottom (P50P10) income inequalities by applying recentered influence function decomposition technique. Our results indicate that population aging, or the compositional change in age distribution, is the largest contributor to the rise in bottom income inequality during the 21st century. Other factors, including the composition and rate effects of education, rate effect of age, and structural changes in labor markets, account for, at most, a small portion of the changes. The implications of these findings are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100882"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562423001269/pdfft?md5=11cc3bd18d849bcb8d60ca0756424f51&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562423001269-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139063004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effects of state-managed marketplaces on out-of-pocket health care costs: Before and after the Affordable Care Act","authors":"Zachary D. Kline","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100881","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100881","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The healthcare marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are intended to make healthcare more affordable and accessible for middle- and moderate-income families. However, state governments regulate many aspects of the insurance markets. This study examines how state-managed insurance marketplaces affect the ACA’s impact on out-of-pocket healthcare spending across different income groups. A difference-in-difference model is used on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics data in conjunction with data from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services. While expenses for middle and upper-income families across the country continue to rise, findings reveal that many ACA-eligible, moderate-income families experience relatively lower costs. State-managed marketplaces pronounce this constraining effect, especially for moderate-income families with incomes between 200% and 300% of the poverty line. The stratification-inspired approach furthermore provides insight to policymakers and judgment and decision-making scientists interested in how best to implement equitable choice-based programs among stratified communities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100881"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562423001257/pdfft?md5=e68a6321e63f5e77f87ac7e0c644619f&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562423001257-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139028961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Better close to home? Geographical and socioeconomic constraints on gendered educational transitions at the upper secondary level","authors":"Irene Prix , Outi Sirniö , Juhani Saari","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100879","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100879","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Educational decisions are affected by geographical accessibility, which may have far-reaching consequences for young people’s future educational pathways. In this paper, we examine the extent to which geographical distance to educational institutions may moderate young people’s applications to upper secondary education in terms of both the track and the gender-(a)typicality of vocational fields of study they apply to. Our study relies on rich register-based data of complete cohorts of 16-year-olds applying to Finnish upper secondary institutions, linked with geographical information on their closest educational alternatives. We find that travel time to the academic track is more decisive than the distance to vocational schools, with geographical accessibility being more significant for boys’ rather than for girls’ application patterns. Moreover, distance sensitivity varied by social origin, with daughters of low-educated parents and sons of medium-educated parents particularly likely to adjust their upper secondary application to the geographical accessibility of educational alternatives. However, we find some indications that particularly girls from lower-educated social backgrounds are more prepared to consider fields of study not typical for their gender if they are more geographically accessible than key alternatives. No such gender-atypical substitutions were evident among boys. We discuss the implications of these findings in the context of explanatory approaches based on risk aversion and (gender) socialization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100879"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562423001233/pdfft?md5=9b10064d79209f998312a6b62e3fa555&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562423001233-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138826954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Randall Akee , Donn. L. Feir , Marina Mileo Gorzig , Samuel Myers Jr
{"title":"Native American “deaths of despair” and economic conditions","authors":"Randall Akee , Donn. L. Feir , Marina Mileo Gorzig , Samuel Myers Jr","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100880","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100880","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>“Deaths of despair” – deaths caused by suicide, drug use, and alcohol use – have increased among non-Hispanic whites who do not have a college degree. We analyze confidential-use data from the National Center for Health Statistics that contains death certificates from 2005 to 2017 (total of 21,177,490 records) linked with measures of local labor market activity. We show that deaths of despair are proportionally larger among Native Americans than non-Hispanic white Americans and that economic conditions have a different relationship with deaths of despair among Native Americans than for non-Hispanic white Americans. Improvements in economic conditions are associated with decreased deaths from drug use, alcohol use, and suicide for non-Hispanic white Americans. On the other hand, in counties with higher labor force participation rates, lower unemployment, and higher ratios of employees to residents, there are significantly higher proportions of Native American deaths attributed to alcohol and drug use.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100880"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562423001245/pdfft?md5=01789f4d7516dab75630a76b621bfd20&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562423001245-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138689206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding the educational disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese: The roles of gender, ethnic salience, and residential concentration","authors":"Zheng Mu","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100874","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100874","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study, using a 10% sample from China’s 1% inter-census population surveys for 2015, examines patterns of educational disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese. I use enrollment rates among children aged 6–15 and completion of junior high school among children aged 16–19 to capture access to education, and completed years of schooling and completion of tertiary education among adults aged 25–55 to measure educational attainment. To reflect the interplays between individual and contextual factors in shaping ethnic variations in education, I explore the moderation effects of gender, Islamic heritage, and residential concentration. Findings show that Muslim girls are not necessarily subject to double disadvantages in education. The only negative interactions between gender and ethnicity are among inland Muslims in inland northwestern China. Islamic heritage and region also lead to varied patterns. Compared to the Han majority, Muslims have unfavorable educational outcomes in northwestern China and comparable educational outcomes in non-northwestern China. This study highlights the importance of understanding China’s educational stratification mechanisms drawing on the interplays between socioeconomic and ideational contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100874"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027656242300118X/pdfft?md5=99addea6b667bee7d0beb9a9f2389f5f&pid=1-s2.0-S027656242300118X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139017154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hyun Jin (Katelyn) Kim , Chloe Ahn , Jere R. Behrman , Jaesung Choi , Eugen Dimant , Emily Hannum , Amber Hye-Yon Lee , Diana Mutz , Hyunjoon Park
{"title":"The long-run causal effects of single-sex schooling on work-related outcomes in South Korea","authors":"Hyun Jin (Katelyn) Kim , Chloe Ahn , Jere R. Behrman , Jaesung Choi , Eugen Dimant , Emily Hannum , Amber Hye-Yon Lee , Diana Mutz , Hyunjoon Park","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100876","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100876","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study explores the lasting impact of single-sex versus coeducational high schools on gender disparities in adult life in South Korea, which is a country characterized by marked gender inequality. Leveraging Seoul’s unique policy of randomly assigning students to high schools, we examine how school type influences attainment of bachelor’s degrees, working full time, and attitudes towards competition, risk taking, and working mothers. Our findings reveal that adult women in their 30s and 40s from all-girls high schools are more likely to earn at least a bachelor’s degree, work full time, enjoy competition, take risks, and hold more positive attitudes towards working mothers compared to those from coeducational high schools. The effects of all-boys schools are not statistically significant across most outcomes. Our research highlights the potential of single-sex schooling, particularly all-girls schools, to help address gender inequality in Korea. This study fills a gap in the research by looking at the long-term impacts of single-sex high-school education on six work-related outcomes and suggests that such schools can help reduce gender disparities. Further research is needed to understand the specific mechanisms through which single-sex schooling influences these outcomes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100876"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562423001208/pdfft?md5=e76442a92bc7cc90d58d072941cce08a&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562423001208-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138693094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Educational assortative mating and motherhood penalty in China","authors":"Cheng Cheng , Yang Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100873","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100873","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mothers earn less than comparable childless women, and such motherhood penalty differs in magnitude by women’s socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. Prior research, however, has rarely considered how the effect of parenthood on women’s income may also depend on the characteristics of their partners. Using data from the China Family Panel Studies 2010–2018, we examine how the effects of motherhood on women’s earnings and within-couple income inequality vary by couples’ educational pairings in China. A large educational gap between spouses–hypergamy or hypogamy–exacerbates the motherhood penalty on a woman’s individual income and her share of the couple’s combined income. However, when the educational gap between spouses is moderate, hypergamy lessens the motherhood penalty on women’s individual income, whereas hypogamy mitigates the penalty on their share of couples’ combined earnings. In the context of China’s declining fertility, narrowing gender gap in education, and widening gender pay gap, these findings provide descriptive empirical evidence on how the motherhood penalty varies by educational assortative mating and underscore the significance of considering couple dynamics in understanding the motherhood penalty.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100873"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562423001178/pdfft?md5=924c41695048566adcce8996b750af0b&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562423001178-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139021739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beauty–status exchange in mate selection in China","authors":"Wen Liu , Jia Yu , Yu Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100872","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100872","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The status exchange hypothesis of union formation has been extensively examined in different societies. In this study, we explore beauty–status exchange in mate selection in China. Based on the 2010–2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we apply a new method that directly estimates the magnitude of exchange by considering beauty<strong>–</strong>status intermarriage as a treatment. Our results show that in China women exchange attractive appearance for men’s higher socioeconomic status, but men’s physical attractiveness does not exchange for women’s higher socioeconomic status. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the traditional marriage exchange pattern of “wife’s beauty matching with husband’s talent” mainly persists among women with lower levels of education and from families of lower socioeconomic status.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47384,"journal":{"name":"Research in Social Stratification and Mobility","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 100872"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562423001166/pdfft?md5=53aa77744196570c6e33a393a9598183&pid=1-s2.0-S0276562423001166-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138988933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}