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Author: Nandi, Alita
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Light, Audrey L. Nandi, Alita |
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Identifying Race and Ethnicity in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Population Research and Policy Review 26,2 (April 2007): 125-144. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/p308463686246t74/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Keyword(s): Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Racial Studies; Self-Reporting Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth is among the few surveys to provide multiple reports on respondents' race and ethnicity. Respondents were initially classified as Hispanic, black, or "other" on the basis of data collected during 1978 screener interviews. Respondents subsequently self-reported their "origin or descent" in 1979, and their race and Hispanic origin in 2002; the latter questions conform to the federal standards adopted in 1997 and used in the 2000 census. We use these data to (a) assess the size and nature of the multiracial population, (b) measure the degree of consistency among these alternative race-related variables, and (c) devise a number of alternative race/ethnicity taxonomies and determine which does the best job of explaining variation in log-wages. A key finding is that the explanatory power of race and ethnicity variables improves considerably when we cross-classify respondents by race and Hispanic origin. Little information is lost when multiracial respondents are assigned to one of their reported race categories because they make up only 1.3% of the sample. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Population Research & Policy Review is the property of Springer Science & Business Media B.V. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts) |
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Light, Audrey L. and Alita Nandi. "Identifying Race and Ethnicity in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth." Population Research and Policy Review 26,2 (April 2007): 125-144.
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Light, Audrey L. Nandi, Alita |
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Identifying Race and Ethnicity in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Working Paper, Department of Economics and Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University (February 2004), revision, November 2005 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, The Ohio State University Keyword(s): Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Ethnic Studies; Racial Studies Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth is among the few surveys to provide multiple reports on respondents' race and ethnicity. Respondents were initially classified as Hispanic, black, or "other" on the basis of data collected during 1978 screener interviews. Respondents subsequently self-reported their "origin or descent" in 1979, and their race and Hispanic origin in 2002; the latter questions conform to the federal standards adopted in 1997 and used in the 2000 census. We use these data to (a) assess the size and nature of the multiracial population, (b) measure the degree of consistency among these alternative race-related variables, and (c) devise a number of alternative race/ethnicity taxonomies and determine which does the best job of explaining variation in log-wages. A key finding is that the explanatory power of race and ethnicity variables improves considerably when we cross-classify respondents by race and Hispanic origin. Little information is lost when multiracial respondents are assigned to one of their reported race categories because they make up only 1.3% of the sample. |
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Light, Audrey L. and Alita Nandi. "Identifying Race and Ethnicity in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth." Working Paper, Department of Economics and Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University (February 2004), revision, November 2005. |
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Nandi, Alita |
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Essays on the Economics of Marriage [Electronic Resource] Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, 2007. Also: http://www.ohiolink.edu.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/etd/send-pdf.cgi/Nandi%20Alita.pdf?acc%5Fnum=osu1167179888 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, The Ohio State University Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Education; Household Income; Marriage; Racial Differences; Welfare; Women Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Recent U.S. policies that promote marriage have prompted researchers to reexamine the reasons behind black marriage rates being lower than white marriage rates. In the first essay, "The Role of Education in the Marital Decisions of Blacks and Whites" I ask how much of the black-white marriage gap would be eliminated if racial differences in schooling attainment were reduced. I use data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) to simultaneously estimate schooling and marriage models. I find that increasing the schooling of black men by one year increases the predicted probability of marriage (by age 35) by more than 5%. The estimated effect is much smaller for white men and black women, and it is negative for white women. Using these estimated coefficients, I predict that eliminating black-white differences in schooling (which I simulate by assigning all blacks the mean schooling of their white counterparts) would decrease the gap in marriage probabilities by 17% for men and 4.5% for women. I conclude that public policy designed to increase education can have small but nontrivial effects on the black-white marriage gap. In the second essay, "Women's Economic Gains from Employment, Marriage and Cohabitation" I ask which of the mechanisms--employment, marriage or cohabitation--leads to greater economic gains, especially for women predisposed towards poverty. Using data from the NLSY79, I estimate a fixed-effects model of household income (adjusted for household composition) to assess the within-person gains associated with changes in employment and marital status; I allow the effects of employment on household income to differ for single, cohabiting, and married women. First I predict that the log household income of single, nonemployed, "poor" (those who ever received welfare) women increases by 0.80, if they enter a cohabiting union, 1.04 if they marry, 0.76 if they work part-time (1000 hours/year), and 1.16 if they work full-time (2000 hours/year). Next I find that the expected gains from cohabitation, marriage and employment for nonpoor women are greater than those for their poor counterparts. For any of the transitions, the poor-nonpoor difference in predicted gains declines as the initial employment levels increase. |
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Nandi, Alita. Essays on the Economics of Marriage [Electronic Resource]. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, 2007.. |
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The Role of Education in Marital Decisions of Blacks and Whites Working Paper, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, September 2005 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, The Ohio State University Keyword(s): Marriage; Modeling; Racial Differences; Schooling Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Recent U.S. policies that promote marriage have prompted researchers to reexamine the reasons for the dramatic difference in marriage rates of blacks and whites. Black marriage rates are more than 20% lower than white marriage rates. In this paper, I examine how much of the black-white marriage gap is due to differences in their schooling. In particular, I ask how much of the marriage gap would be eliminated if the racial differences in schooling attainment were reduced. I use data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to simultaneously estimate schooling and marriage models. I find that increasing the schooling of black men by one year increases the predicted probability of marriage (by age 35) by more than 5%. The estimated effect is much smaller for white men and black women, and it is negative for white women. Using these estimated schooling coefficients, I predict that elimination of black-white differences in schooling (which I simulate by assigning all blacks the mean schooling of their white counterparts) would decrease the gap in marriage probabilities by 17% for men and 4.5% for women. I conclude that public policy designed to increase education can have small but nontrivial effects to increase black marriage rates. |
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Nandi, Alita. "The Role of Education in Marital Decisions of Blacks and Whites." Working Paper, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, September 2005. |
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The Role of Education in Marital Decisions of Blacks and Whites Presented: London, England, 9th World Congress of the Econometric Society, August 2005. Also: http://eswc2005.econ.ucl.ac.uk/ESWC/2005/Prog/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Econometric Society Keyword(s): Education; Marriage; Racial Differences; Schooling Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Blacks have lower marriage rates and lower average schooling than whites. I estimate a static model of marriage and schooling simultaneously to identify the causal effect of schooling on their marriage probabilities. I find that schooling ultimately increases the marriage probabilities of all but white women. The schooling coefficient is significant for men only and its magnitude is 6% and 1.3% for black and white men, respectively. If all black men are assigned 18 years of schooling, then their marriage rate becomes higher than that of white men. This emphasizes the role of schooling in marriages. |
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Nandi, Alita. "The Role of Education in Marital Decisions of Blacks and Whites." Presented: London, England, 9th World Congress of the Econometric Society, August 2005. |
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Women's Economic Gains from Employment, Marriage and Cohabitation Presented: Budapest, Hungary, 62nd European Meeting of the Econometric Society: Joint With the 22nd Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, August 2007 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Econometric Society Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Education; Education, Secondary; Household Income; Marriage; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Racial Differences; Welfare; Women Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In "Women's Economic Gains from Employment, Marriage and Cohabitation" I ask which of the mechanisms--employment, marriage or cohabitation--leads to greater economic gains, especially for women predisposed towards poverty. Using data from the NLSY79, I estimate a fixed-effects model of household income (adjusted for household composition) to assess the within-person gains associated with changes in employment and marital status; I allow the effects of employment on household income to differ for single, cohabiting, and married women. First I predict that the log household income of single, nonemployed, "poor" (those who ever received welfare) women increases by 0.80, if they enter a cohabiting union, 1.04 if they marry, 0.76 if they work part-time (1000 hours/year), and 1.16 if they work full-time (2000 hours/year). Next I find that the expected gains from cohabitation, marriage and employment for nonpoor women are greater than those for their poor counterparts. For any of the transitions, the poor-nonpoor difference in predicted gains declines as the initial employment levels increase. |
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Nandi, Alita. "Women's Economic Gains from Employment, Marriage and Cohabitation." Presented: Budapest, Hungary, 62nd European Meeting of the Econometric Society: Joint With the 22nd Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, August 2007. |