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Author: Horowitz, Jonathan
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1. Horowitz, Jonathan
Entwisle, Barbara
Life Course Events and Migration in the Transition to Adulthood
Social Forces published online (21 October 2020): DOI: 10.1093/sf/soaa098/5933785.
Also: https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sf/soaa098/5933785
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Keyword(s): Life Course; Migration; Transition, Adulthood

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Do life course events stimulate migration during the transition to adulthood? We identify nine specific life events in the family, education, and employment domains and test whether they lead to migration in the short term, using fixed-effects models that remove the influence of all stable individual-level characteristics and controlling for age. Marital and school completion events have substantively large effects on migration compared with individual work transitions, although there are more of the latter over the young adult years. Furthermore, young adults who are white and from higher class backgrounds are more likely to migrate in response to life events, suggesting that migration may be a mechanism for the reproduction of status attainment. Overall, the results demonstrate a close relationship between life course events and migration and suggest a potential role for migration in explaining the effect of life course events on well-being and behavior.
Bibliography Citation
Horowitz, Jonathan and Barbara Entwisle. "Life Course Events and Migration in the Transition to Adulthood." Social Forces published online (21 October 2020): DOI: 10.1093/sf/soaa098/5933785.
2. Horowitz, Jonathan
Ramaj, Sagi
Educational Expansion, Field of Study, and Gender Inequalities in Skill Usage Across Four Cohort Studies
Presented: Atlanta GA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2022
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97, Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): College Degree; College Major/Field of Study/Courses; Gender Differences; Skills

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Does educational expansion have gendered and field-specific effects on the value of bachelor's degrees? Previous research suggests that if educational expansion weakens the value of a bachelor's degree, then less prestigious majors would be disadvantaged versus more prestigious majors, and women would be disadvantaged compared to men. We analyze data from four different studies conducted by the National Longitudinal Surveys spanning cohorts born as early as 1943 and as late as 1984. Multilevel regression models and predicted analytic skill scores provide some evidence for the hypothesized argument, but the value of men's degrees changed in ways that are inconsistent with the prior theory. Furthermore, not a single field of study responded the same way to educational expansion across both men and women. The findings suggest that the effects of educational expansion on analytic skill usage is fundamentally gendered, and that this is only visible when disaggregating fields of study.
Bibliography Citation
Horowitz, Jonathan and Sagi Ramaj. "Educational Expansion, Field of Study, and Gender Inequalities in Skill Usage Across Four Cohort Studies." Presented: Atlanta GA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2022.
3. Horowitz, Jonathan
Ramaj, Sagi
Educational Expansion, Fields of Study, and the Gender Gap in Analytic Skill Usage on the Job
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 89 (February 2024): 100877.
Also: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100877
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Analytic Skills; Bachelors Degree; College Degree; College Education; College Major/Field of Study/Courses; Education; Education, Higher; Education, Postsecondary; Educational Expansion; Gender; Gender Gap; Higher Education; Stratification

This study investigates how higher education expansion changes gender gaps in analytic skill usage on the job in the United States, and its variation across fields of study at the bachelor’s degree level. The present study proposes two patterns for graduates of a given field: One where educational expansion reinforces gender gaps, and another where it dissolves them. Using data from four different cohort studies, we find that educational expansion leads to less analytic skill usage at the bachelor’s degree level. However, this is not universally true, and educational expansion produces very different effects by gender and field of study. Thus, while multiple theories about educational expansion and majors explain these patterns, the specific applicability of them depends on the field of study itself.
Bibliography Citation
Horowitz, Jonathan and Sagi Ramaj. "Educational Expansion, Fields of Study, and the Gender Gap in Analytic Skill Usage on the Job." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 89 (February 2024): 100877.