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1.	DiPrete, Thomas A.
1.	Analyzing Labor Force Transitions with Panel Data Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 3 (1984): 61-76 Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: JAI Press, Inc. Keyword(s): Data Analysis; Labor Force Participation; Longitudinal Data Sets; Markov chain / Markov model; Mobility, Labor Market; Research Methodology; Statistical Analysis; Variables, Independent - Covariate; Work Histories While event-history data are always preferable to panel data, there are many situations in which they do not exist or cannot be collected. This analysis of transitions among labor force statuses for young men who participated in the NLS is intended to illustrate the usefulness of longitudinal models for data analysis even when event history data are not available. Continuous time Markov models can be estimated and constrained so that hypotheses can be tested. Further, it is feasible to specify the intensity parameters as functions of covariates and estimate the coefficients. Good starting values are important to obtain the estimates without a large expenditure of funds, and one way in which these values might be obtained is suggested.
	Bibliography Citation DiPrete, Thomas A. "Analyzing Labor Force Transitions with Panel Data." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 3 (1984): 61-76.

2.	DiPrete, Thomas A. Buchmann, Claudia
2.	The Secret Behind College Completion: Girls, Boys, and the Power of Eighth Grade Grades Report, Third Way, Washington DC, 2014 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Third Way Keyword(s): College Degree; Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Grade Point Average (GPA)/Grades; School Performance Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. To see into the future, look at 8th grade. If an 8th grader gets As and Bs in school, that student will likely earn a college degree. If that same student gets only Bs and Cs, college completion is unlikely. That is one of the stunning conclusions from authors Thomas A. DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann in their report on gender, mobility, and college attainment. The implications of their findings are astounding, especially when girls do better than boys in school by 8th grade and continue to widen their lead over boys in education attainment. Because our economy rewards educational attainment and punishes the lack of it, could women soon become the primary economic drivers of the U.S. economy?
	Bibliography Citation DiPrete, Thomas A. and Claudia Buchmann. "The Secret Behind College Completion: Girls, Boys, and the Power of Eighth Grade Grades." Report, Third Way, Washington DC, 2014.

3.	DiPrete, Thomas A. Maurin, Eric Goux, Dominique Quesnel-Vallée, Amélie
3.	Work and Pay in Flexible and Regulated Labor Markets: A Generalized Perspective on Institutional Evolution and Inequality Trends in Europe and the U.S. Presented: San Francisco CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2004 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Cross-national Analysis; France/Formation et Qualification Professionnelle (FQP) Survey; Labor Market Studies, Geographic; Layoffs; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In recent years a “unified theory” has emerged out of labor economics, which argues that a combination of “macroeconomic shocks” and flexible labor market institutions in the U.S. has produced strong upward trends in wage inequality, while these same shocks have produced high unemployment and low employment growth in Europe as a side effect of the wage stability preserved by that continent’s rigid labor market institutions. This paper argues instead that European institutions in fact have evolved their own form of flexibility, which, in combination with the macroeconomic shocks described in the unified theory, have also led to rising inequality in Europe, but of a different form. Inequality of employment security has risen faster in France than in the U.S. Furthermore, trends in the French labor market have led to increased concentration of low-skill workers in these insecure job statues. These results challenge the view that unemployment is the main mechanisms through which European labor markets absorbed asymmetric shocks to their demand for labor. They also challenge the view that Europeans have intolerance for inequality, but instead suggest that the main difference between the two sides of the Atlantic concerns the nature of the inequalities that each society is willing to tolerate.
	Bibliography Citation DiPrete, Thomas A., Eric Maurin, Dominique Goux and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée. "Work and Pay in Flexible and Regulated Labor Markets: A Generalized Perspective on Institutional Evolution and Inequality Trends in Europe and the U.S." Presented: San Francisco CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2004.

4.	DiPrete, Thomas A. McDaniel, Anne
4.	Family, Gender, and Educational Outcomes in Elementary and Middle School Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-B, ECLS-K); Educational Attainment; Educational Outcomes; Family Studies; Fathers, Biological; Fathers, Presence; Gender Differences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Schooling Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. It is now well established that girls typically outperform boys in school and have higher levels of educational attainment. Recent research suggests that the gender gap in educational attainment is related to family resources, in that the attainment gap appears to be smaller in families with more highly educated parents. Using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of 1979 and 1997 along with data from the ECLS-K, we provide evidence that the gender gap in educational performance at various points in the educational career is smaller in families with more highly educated parents, and that the gender gap in behavior problems -- which has been linked to educational attainment in previous research -- may also be smaller in these families. The presence of a biological father in the household may also be linked to the size of the gender gap in behavior problems in elementary and middle school.
	Bibliography Citation DiPrete, Thomas A. and Anne McDaniel. "Family, Gender, and Educational Outcomes in Elementary and Middle School." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011.

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