scholarly journals Motherhood after the age of 35 in Poland

2014 ◽  
pp. 7-28
Author(s):  
Anna Rybińska
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Widespread Phenomenon ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Educational Professional

Postponing motherhood is a widespread phenomenon across developed countries, however only few studies look into very late motherhood in post-socialist countries using individual level data. In this study, I look at the context of the first childbirth in Poland in the midst of the political transformation of 1989. Employing sequence analysis I reconstructed life trajectories of women who experienced the transition to adulthood during the late 1980’s and the early 1990’s and have just completed their fertility histories. Individual data from the 2011 GGS-PL and the 2011 FAMWELL Survey were used. Comparing paths of mothers’ lives, I searched for differences in educational, professional and conjugal careers between women who gave birth before the age of 30 and after the age of 35. The results show how various life careers crisscross over the life course leading women to late motherhood.

scholarly journals “In that day when we met for the frst time”: barriers and and resources of successful transition of foster-children to adulthood

Inter ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 19-37
Author(s):  
Larisa L. Shpakovskaya ◽  
Zhanna V. Chernova ◽  
Elvira Sh. Garifulina
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Foster Children ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Foster Family ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Biological Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Empirical Material

The article aims at the analysis of children’s perception of the changes in their lives due to the loss of a biological family and moving to a foster family. We analyze how children experience and subjectively perceive their foster family life experience. On the base of children biographies we build typical life trajectories, which are shaped in institutional, interpersonal and individual level. Social and political context of the foster children autobiographies are set by the reform of deinstitutionalization of child welfare system implemented in Russia in the 2010s. The methodological framework used is the new sociology of childhood, which sees childhood as a socio-historical construct, insists on studying the subjective world of children and taking them as everyday experts. As an empirical material we analyse 253 autobiographies written by foster children and sent to a diary context “Our Stories” (Elena and Gennagy Timchenko Foundation, 2015–2017). The article presents typical biographical trajectories of foster children as stages of transition to adulthood, as well as barriers that they face in this process and resources that are made available to them by the family. The general conclusion of the article is the fact that the biographical trajectories of the transition, which are accessible for foster children are complex, diverse, and individualized. Biographies are presented by their authors not only as a result of external factors, but also as a result of their own actions, as well as the efforts of their foster parents to overcome social stigmatization.

scholarly journals Social Identification and Redistribution in Heterogeneous Federations: Evidence From Germany and Belgium

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (9) ◽  
pp. 1177-1207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Holm ◽  
Benny Geys
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Redistributive Taxation ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Local Politicians

Recent evidence of increasing income heterogeneity within developed countries has reignited debates concerning the redistribution of income and wealth. In this article, we contribute to this debate by assessing the role of individuals’ jurisdictional identification for their preferences toward intrafederation redistributive financial flows. Incorporating insights from social identity theory in a model of redistributive taxation, we show that federal, rather than local, identification can lead individuals to shift their redistribution preferences independent of their narrowly defined personal economic interests. Moreover, contrary to conventional wisdom, welfare state support will sometimes be decreasing in national identification. We empirically assess these predictions using individual-level data from the 2008 German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) and a 2013-2014 survey among Belgian local politicians. Our findings provide strong support for the model’s core predictions in both settings.

scholarly journals Inequality in Place: Effects of Exposure to Neighborhood-Level Economic Inequality on Mortality

Demography ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Zhao ◽  
Philipp Hessel ◽  
Juli Simon Thomas ◽  
Jason Beckfield
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Risk Of Mortality ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Differential Exposure ◽  
The Life Course

Abstract This study contributes to the debate on whether income inequality is harmful for health by addressing several analytical weaknesses of previous studies. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics in combination with tract-level measures of income inequality in the United States, we estimate the effects of differential exposure to income inequality during three decades of the life course on mortality. Our study is among the first to consider the implications of income inequality within U.S. tracts for mortality using longitudinal and individual-level data. In addition, we improve upon prior work by accounting for the dynamic relationship between local areas and individuals' health, using marginal structural models to account for changes in exposure to local income inequality. In contrast to other studies that found no significant relation between income inequality and mortality, we find that recent exposure to higher local inequality predicts higher relative risk of mortality among individuals at ages 45 or older.

scholarly journals Alternatives to Aging Alone?: “Kinlessness” and the Importance of Friends Across European Contexts

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (8) ◽  
pp. 1416-1428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine A Mair
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
European Values Survey ◽  
European Values ◽  
Sources Of Support ◽  
Alternative Sources

Abstract Objectives Increasing numbers of older adults cross-nationally are without children or partners in later life and therefore likely have greater reliance on nonkin (e.g., friends). This pattern may be particularly pronounced in country contexts that emphasize friendship. This article hypothesizes that those who lack kin (e.g., children, partners) and/or who live in countries with a stronger emphasis on friendship have more friends in their networks. Although these hypothesized patterns are consistent with interdisciplinary literatures, they have not been tested empirically and therefore remain overlooked in current “aging alone” narratives. Method This study combines individual-level data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (Wave 6) with nation-level data from the European Values Survey to estimate multilevel negative binomial models exploring number of friends among those aged more than 50 years who lack kin across 17 countries. Results Older adults who lack kin or whose kin are unavailable report more friends in their networks, particularly in countries with a higher percentage of people who believe that friends are “very important” in life. Discussion This article challenges dominating assumptions about “aging alone” that rely heavily on lack of family as an indicator of “alone.” Future studies of “kinlessness” should consider the extent to which friendship is correlated with lack of kin, particularly in more socioeconomically developed countries. Previous research on “aging alone” may have overestimated risk in more privileged countries that already emphasize friendship, but underestimated risk in family-centered countries where “kinlessness” and alternative sources of support are less common.

scholarly journals AGENCY AS IDEOLOGY: PRECARITY AND DISEMBEDDEDNESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY LIFE COURSE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S589-S589
Author(s):  
wenxuan huang
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Transition Research ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Life Course

Abstract The “individualization” thesis has gradually merged into the discussion of increasing heterogeneity of the life course as well as growing inequality over historical time. As individuals are “disembedded” from both cultural traditions and more recently social institutions, individual agency has drawn revived interest in outlining “choice biography” that is seen as paramount to personal outcomes and even containing overcoming force against structure. This practice mutes the consideration of the ongoing forces of social structure that by their very nature continue to constitute individual selves and possibilities. The uncritical treatment of individual agency makes it problematic for the study of precarity, mystifying and obscuring the analysis of inequality-generating mechanisms, reducing them to the individual-level. We analyze current uses of the concept of agency in the life course research, and particularly in the areas of transition research, e.g., transition to adulthood/retirement, where individual agency is assumed to be most active.

scholarly journals Neither Left-Behind nor Superstar: Ordinary Winners of Digitalization at the Ballot Box

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aina Gallego ◽  
Thomas Kurer ◽  
Nikolas Schöll
Keyword(s):  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
The Political ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Instrumental Variable Analysis ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Incumbent Party

The nascent literature on the political consequences of technological change studies either left-behind voters or successful technology entrepreneurs ("superstars"). However, it neglects the large share of skilled workers who benefit from limited but steady economic improvements in the knowledge economy. This paper studies how workplace digitalization affects political preferences among the entire active labor force by combining individual-level panel data from the United Kingdom with industry-level data on ICT capital stocks between 1997-2017. We first demonstrate that digitalization was economically beneficial for workers with middle and high levels of education. We then show that growth in digitalization increased support for the Conservative Party, the incumbent party, and voter turnout among beneficiaries of economic change. Our results hold in an instrumental variable analysis and multiple robustness checks. While digitalization undoubtedly produces losers (along with some superstars), ordinary winners of digitalization are an important stabilizing force content with the political status quo.

scholarly journals Who Signs? Ballot Petition Signatures as Political Participation

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-37
Author(s):  
Brian Amos ◽  
Diana Forster ◽  
Daniel A Smith
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Logit Models ◽  
Ballot Initiative ◽  
Demographic Profile ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Level Data

Who signs ballot initiative petitions? Do they fit a particular socio-political and demographic profile of a likely voter, or are they peripheral voters who become engaged in the political process due to the issue at hand? And are some citizens who sign petitions more likely to have valid signatures than others? Scholars have been slow to assess who is likely to become engaged in perhaps one of the most common forms of political participation: signing a ballot petitions. Drawing on an original dataset of individual-level data, we use GIS and logit models to test which citizens were more likely to sign a contoversial local ballot petition, as well as to determine who was likely to sign a valid (or invalid) petition.

Abstract 16177: Race and Sex-specific Long-term Risk of Incident Heart Failure in Adults Stratified by Fasting Glucose Level: Lifetime Risk Pooling Project

Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (Suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjun Sinha ◽  
Hongyan Ning ◽  
Faraz S Ahmad ◽  
Michael Bancks ◽  
Mercedes R Carnethon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Kaplan Meier ◽  
Level Data ◽  
The Life Course

Introduction: While the association of diabetes with heart failure (HF) is well-established, the long-term risk (LR) of incident HF with prediabetes across the life course is not known. Furthermore, race-sex disparities in LR of HF across categories of fasting plasma glucose (FPG) has not been described. To inform HF preventive strategies, we compared the race- and sex-specific LR of HF across categories of FPG in adults. Methods: Individual-level data from adults free of baseline HF was pooled from 6 population-based cohorts stratified by baseline age (40-59, 60-79 years) and race-sex groups. We defined FPG status as normal (<100 mg/dL), prediabetes (FPG 100-125 mg/dL) and diabetes (FPG ≥126 mg/dL or use of antihyperglycemic agents). Modified Kaplan-Meier analysis was performed by FPG strata to estimate the LR of HF (30-year in middle-aged and 20-year in older adults) adjusted for the competing risk of non-HF death. We estimated adjusted hazard ratios (aHR) for HF in each FPG strata using Cox proportional regression models. Results: Of the 40,117 participants, 24% were black and 56% were women. During 638,910 person-years of follow-up, there were 4,846 cases of incident HF. In middle-aged adults, the LR of HF was significantly higher among individuals with prediabetes (6.1 [4.8, 7.4] to 14.4 [9.6, 19.2]%) compared with normal FPG (3.5 [3.0, 4.1] to 11.7 [9.1, 14.3]%). In older adults with prediabetes compared with normal FPG, LR of HF was significantly higher in white men (13.5 [12.0, 14.9]% vs 10.4 [9.2, 11.6]%) and women (12.2 [10.8, 13.6]% vs 7.8 [6.9, 8.7]%) but not in black men (12.2 [9.0, 15.3]% vs 14.6 [11.6, 17.6]%) or women (13.5 [10.1, 16.8]% vs 11.7 [9.4, 14.0]%). Race-sex specific aHR for HF across FPG strata are shown in the table. Conclusions: Compared with normal FPG, prediabetes was associated with significantly greater LR of HF in middle-aged but not in older adults. Of all groups, black women with diabetes qualitatively had a disproportionately higher LR of HF.

scholarly journals Gender stereotypes can explain the gender-equality paradox

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (49) ◽  
pp. 31063-31069
Author(s):  
Thomas Breda ◽  
Elyès Jouini ◽  
Clotilde Napp ◽  
Georgia Thebault
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Economic Constraints

The so-called “gender-equality paradox” is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in more egalitarian and more developed countries. Some scholars have explained this paradox by the existence of deeply rooted or intrinsic gender differences in preferences that materialize more easily in countries where economic constraints are more limited. In line with a strand of research in sociology, we show instead that it can be explained by cross-country differences in essentialist gender norms regarding math aptitudes and appropriate occupational choices. To this aim, we propose a measure of the prevalence and extent of internalization of the stereotype that “math is not for girls” at the country level. This is done using individual-level data on the math attitudes of 300,000 15-y-old female and male students in 64 countries. The stereotype associating math to men is stronger in more egalitarian and developed countries. It is also strongly associated with various measures of female underrepresentation in math-intensive fields and can therefore entirely explain the gender-equality paradox. We suggest that economic development and gender equality in rights go hand-in-hand with a reshaping rather than a suppression of gender norms, with the emergence of new and more horizontal forms of social differentiation across genders.

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