scholarly journals The Gender Income Gap and the Role of Family Formation Revisited: A Replication of Bobbitt-Zeher (2007)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Ochsenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
Income Gap

scholarly journals The Gender Income Gap and the Roles of Education and Family Formation: A Scientific Replication of Bobbitt-Zeher (2007)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Ochsenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
Sociology Of Education ◽  
Comparable Data ◽  
Income Gap

This article reports the results of a replication of Bobbitt-Zeher’s 2007 Sociology of Education article “The Gender Income Gap and the Role of Education” based on comparable data from Germany. Models that emulate the original specifications successfully replicate the results. However, models that instead adhere to Bobbitt-Zeher’s theory concerning the gendered effect of family formation call her key finding that “family formation has virtually no effect on the income gap” into question.

scholarly journals The Gender Income Gap and the Role of Family Formation Revisited: A Replication of Bobbitt-Zeher (2007)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Ochsenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
Income Gap

Dear Sir or Madam,please add the attached preprint to SocArXiv. (Title: The Gender Income Gapand the Role of Family Formation Revisited: A Replication of Bobbitt-Zeher

Private Wealth, Philanthropy, and Social Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Barchi ◽  
Guosheng Deng ◽  
Chien-Chung Huang ◽  
Carolyn Isles ◽  
Juliann Vikse
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Income Gap ◽  
Supportive Environment ◽  
Performance Based Funding ◽  
Opportunity Gaps

Growing income inequality has created excessive barriers to social mobility for the poor. Charitable giving by the wealthy can reduce the societal effects of the income gap by reinvestment in public goods such as education. We apply the cipp model to investigate the role of philanthropy in advancing educational opportunities in the United States and China, using historical and contemporary cases of individual philanthropists. The findings suggest that the cases reviewed in this study created mechanisms by which to contribute to social development in their respective countries. Government policies play a key role in philanthropic development, particularly in China. It is important to continue to foster a supportive environment for the sector to grow, which may include expanding tax incentives, emphasizing performance-based funding, and eliminating administrative barriers. In short, educational philanthropy holds great promise for reducing opportunity gaps and economic inequality, by providing the key to success for future generations.

“It’s Going to Be Okay”

2018 ◽  
pp. 117-138
Author(s):  
Mary Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
American Family ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
And Gender

Acknowledging that the youth of Spectrum tend to disclose their sexual and gender identities to parents at a relatively young age, this chapter explores the role of family in the formation of these youths’ sexualities and genders. It was often the case with Spectrum youth that, rather than rejection, they encountered loving support about their sexuality from their parents. The youth of Spectrum are of a generation of kids who are the first to grow up in a society in which same-sex couples and genderqueer parents rearing children have become significantly socially acceptable. The chapter argues that young people are sharing their queer sexual and gender identities with their parents at a younger age because of gender non-conformity that leads parents to make assumptions about their child’s sexuality because they are more frequently exposed to LGBTQ family members and loved ones and because these particular parents do not conform to the white, middle-class, heteropatriarchal regime of the Standard North American Family. Queer family formation has broad implications not just for same-sex couples but for the way U.S. society understands and recognizes family in general.

Civic participation over the lifecourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-38
Author(s):  
Chris Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Terms Of Trade ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Class Background ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Life Course

In this chapter. Christ Taylor draws on longitudinal data from the British Birth Cohort Studies to chart the changing patterns of civic and political participation over the adult lifecourse within the UK. The analysis shows how different stages of the life course – family formation, child-rearing and employment – have implications for civic engagement as measured in terms of trade union membership, volunteering and voting. The analysis also reveals how important prior civic participation is on later civic participation. In this connection, social class background appears to have an important role in determining initial levels of civic participation over the lifecourse, particularly in terms of formal volunteering. The role of education and the intergenerational transmission of civic behaviours and attitudes, particularly during childhood, would seem to be an important component of this.

Faith and Family

2020 ◽  
pp. 190-221
Author(s):  
Melinda Lundquist Denton ◽  
Richard Flory
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Religious Lives ◽  
Role Of Religion

This chapter focuses on family as a key institutional setting within which religion and spirituality are formed. The authors explore how marriage and parenthood are tied to religiousness among the young people in the study. The authors first investigate the role of religion in leading young people to six different family pathways: married with children, married without children, cohabiting with children, cohabiting without children, single with children, and single without children. They then examine how these different stages of family formation affect the religious lives of the young people in the study. Of particular interest is the question of whether marriage and parenthood contribute to higher rates of religious retention among emerging adults.

scholarly journals Early Family Life Course Standardization in Sweden: The Role of Compositional Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 765-798
Author(s):  
Zachary Van Winkle
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
Compositional Changes ◽  
Early Family ◽  
Combine Sequence ◽  
Family Trajectories

Abstract The diversity of early family life courses is thought to have increased, although empirical evidence is mixed. Less standardized family formation is attributed to compositional changes in educational attainment, labour market participation, and childhood living conditions. I investigate whether and why family trajectories have become more or less standardized across birth cohorts in Sweden. I combine sequence metrics with Oaxaca–Blinder decompositions to assess the compositional shifts that drive changes in family formation standardization. Family trajectories of individuals born in 1952, 1962, and 1972 from age 18 to 35 are reconstructed using Swedish register data. My results demonstrate that early family formation has become more standardized across birth cohorts. Further, compositional differences between birth cohorts partially account for this standardization, especially for women. For example, higher levels of educational attainment are associated with family formation standardization. This substantiates arguments that family formation may re-standardize following the second demographic transition.

Lone parenthood

Child Poverty ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 57-76
Author(s):  
Morag C. Treanor
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Normative Values ◽  
Childhood Poverty ◽  
Homogenous Group ◽  
The Public ◽  
Lone Parent ◽  
Lone Parents ◽  
Corrosive Effect

Chapter four explores the importance of, and relationship between, family formation, or ‘breakdown’ and lone parenthood in the context of childhood poverty. Few subjects excite the public and political imagination quite as much as the issue of lone parents. It is an area with strong connections to poverty, disadvantage, gendered inequalities, and the supposed breaching of normative values and expectations. I engage with myths and assumptions about lone parents and reveal the corrosive effect of demonising lone-parent family life on children’s lives and wellbeing. I show that relationships are dynamic, that lone parents are not a homogenous group, that a large proportion of children will spend time in a lone parent formation, and that how a government responds to lone parents in policy terms directly relates to how impoverished their children will be. This chapter also discusses how poverty and emotional mal-being are not inevitable consequences of separation and divorce. The role of separated fathers in lone parent families, particularly their financial contribution and involvement in their children’s lives, are explored.

Fearing Such a Lady: University Expansion, Underemployment, and the Hypergamy Ideal in Kampala, Uganda

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 1161-1187
Author(s):  
Margaret Frye ◽  
Daniela R. Urbina
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Relationship Norms ◽  
University Expansion

In Uganda, the cultural norm of hypergamy, which dictates that husbands should have higher economic and social status than wives, is pervasive and influential. Yet hypergamy has recently been challenged by women’s gains in education relative to men and by an unemployment crisis leaving educated young men unable to find steady work. Using interviews with recent university graduates in Kampala, we investigate how highly educated young adults navigate frictions between the hypergamy ideal and these recent transformations in gendered status. Some women reduce the salience of hypergamy by preventing their relationships from becoming serious, while other women intentionally perform the role of submissive housewife while preserving their autonomy. Men reframe their romantic circumstances to underplay their inability to achieve economic hypergamy, portraying educated women as undesirable and characterizing their partners as nonmaterialistic. These findings reveal how demographic and economic changes reconfigure relationship norms, gendered power dynamics, and family formation processes.

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