The Changing Role of Education in the Marriage Market:Assortative Marriage in Canada and the United States since the 1970s

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Hou ◽  
John Myles
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Census Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Homogamy ◽  
Educational Distribution ◽  
Log Linear ◽  
Changing Role

Whether or not relative rates of assortative marriage have been rising in the affluent democracies has been subject to considerable dispute. First, we show how the conflicting empirical findings that have fueled the debate are frequently an artifact of alternative methodological strategies for answering the question. Then, drawing on comparable census data for Canada and the United States, we examine trends in educational homogamy and intermarriage with log-linear models for all marriages among young adults under 35 over three decades. Our results show that educational homogamy, the tendency of like to marry like, has unambiguously risen in both countries since the 1970s. Rising levels of marital homogamy were the result of declining intermarriage at both ends of the educational distribution.

Priapism in the United States: the changing role of sickle cell disease

2011 ◽  
Vol 201 (4) ◽  
pp. 468-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin L. Chrouser ◽  
Onaopemipo B. Ajiboye ◽  
Tolulope A. Oyetunji ◽  
David C. Chang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sickle Cell Disease ◽  
Sickle Cell ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cell Disease ◽  
Changing Role

The Changing Role of Foreign Money in the United States, 1782–1857

1977 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 1009-1027 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Martin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Currency ◽  
Legal Tender ◽  
Silver Standard ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The U.S

Foreign money remained in widespread use in the United States until the middle of the nineteenth century. Several foreign coins were provided legal tender status in order to supplement the scanty American specie supply. A particular disadvantage was the perpetuation of non-decimal units of account, especially in New York. When the U.S. enacted a subsidiary silver standard in 1853, the expedient bases for the lawful status of foreign coin was removed. In 1857, the United States coinage was finally reformed to secure an exclusive national currency.

scholarly journals Can students themselves narrow the socioeconomic-status-based achievement gap through their own persistence and learning time?

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haigen Huang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Achievement Gap ◽  
International Student ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Learning Time ◽  
International Student Assessment

Despite decades of educational reforms, the achievement gap based on socioeconomic status (SES) persists in the United States. Not only does the SES-based achievement gap persist, it has also been widening. This study focused on the role of students, hypothesizing that students might reduce the SES-based achievement gap by increasing their learning time and persistence. I used both ANOVA and two-level hierarchical linear models (HLM) to analyze the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) United States data. The findings suggested that students viewing themselves to be persistent were likely to perform better than those viewing themselves to be less persistent. Also increased time learning in school was associated with increased achievement. However, high-SES students generally spent more time learning in school and viewed themselves to be more persistent. Thus learning time and persistence were not likely to address the SES constraint on achievement for a majority of low-SES students unless schools provided them extra classes and learning opportunities.

Bridging Boundaries: United States Policewomen's Efforts to Form an International Network

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
Dorothy Moses Schulz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Network ◽  
Women Police ◽  
Chain Of Command ◽  
Woman's Sphere ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
International Status

This paper focuses on the history and evolution of the International Association of Policewomen and its successor group, the International Association of Women Police (IAWP), in their continuing efforts to form an international network of policewomen beginning in 1915. Both groups sought to reinforce the specialist role that women initially played in policing. These attempts to form an international network are intertwined with the changing role of policewomen from social work to a more purely police orientation, particularly in the United States. With the 1996 conference, attended by 600 delegates from 42 nations, the IAWP has achieved true international status but may now be obliged to recognise that complete integration of women into the police chain of command may not be the aim of women from countries that retain a more traditional view of the woman's sphere as centring around crimes involving women, children and domestic matters. Issues for future consideration are also raised in this paper.

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