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1.	Tunalilar, Ozcan White, Robert G.
1.	Constructing Comparable Cohorts Using the NLSY79-CHYA: A Propensity Score Weighting Approach Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Mobility, Social; Propensity Scores; Sampling Weights/Weighting Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Children in the NLSY79-CHYA are not representative of their cohorts in the population due to design effects, rendering the dataset impractical to study the period-driven mechanisms of educational and economic mobility in the United States. This is unfortunate considering the richness of the dataset in terms of family history and measures of socioemotional development alongside other benefits. In the current study, we adopt a propensity score weighting procedure to construct and analyze multiple, comparable birth cohorts to study the changing importance of socioemotional skills in educational mobility in the United States. This approach allows accounting for changes in the distributions of family background between cohorts and constructing cohorts suitable for period-driven comparisons. The results are promising for potentially expanding the use of the NLSY79-CHYA in empirical research related to social mobility and inequality.
	Bibliography Citation Tunalilar, Ozcan and Robert G. White. "Constructing Comparable Cohorts Using the NLSY79-CHYA: A Propensity Score Weighting Approach." Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016.

2.	Tunalilar, Ozcan White, Robert G.
2.	Pathways to Childlessness in the United States: A Group-Based Analysis of Employment and Marital Union Trajectories Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Childbearing; Educational Attainment; Labor Force Participation; Marital Status Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The rate of permanent childlessness has been increasing in the United States for the last three decades. To identify distinct origins of childlessness, I examine lifetime patterns of education, employment and marriage between the ages of 18 and 44. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979-2010), I identify trajectories of educational attainment, labor force attachment and marital status separately for men and women, and link them to likelihood of remaining childless. White, never-married men and women are more likely to remain childless. Family background has differential effects for remaining childless by sex. Early transition to labor force was highly influential for women’s likelihood of remaining childless but not for men’s. The reverse was true for the effect of timing of first marriage. The distinct trajectories men and women follow to childlessness illustrates the lifelong patterns of accumulating risks for childlessness.
	Bibliography Citation Tunalilar, Ozcan and Robert G. White. "Pathways to Childlessness in the United States: A Group-Based Analysis of Employment and Marital Union Trajectories." Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013.

3.	Tunalilar, Ozcan White, Robert G.
3.	The Growing Importance of Socioemotional Skills for Academic Achievement in the United States Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Achievement; Attention/Attention Deficit; Behavior, Antisocial; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Schooling; Social Emotional Development Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Evidence that socioemotional skills related to attentiveness and anti-social behavior are closely tied to academic achievement underscores the importance of the broad range of skills required for school success in modern America. Using two birth cohorts born during early 1980s and 1990s, we find that the importance of these skills is a relatively recent phenomenon. We select two cohorts of adolescents from the NLSY97 and the children of the NLSY79 to assess changes in the effects of attentiveness and anti-social behaviors in models of school achievement. We adopt a propensity score weighting procedure to account for changes in the distributions of family background between cohorts and construct cohorts suitable for comparison. The estimated increase in the effect of socioemotional skills for achievement illustrates how these skills present an emerging additional axis for educational inequalities.
	Bibliography Citation Tunalilar, Ozcan and Robert G. White. "The Growing Importance of Socioemotional Skills for Academic Achievement in the United States." Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014.

4.	White, Robert G.
4.	Maternal Job Displacement and Child School Success Presented: San Diego CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April-May 2015 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Displaced Workers; Job Turnover; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the effects of involuntary job displacement on children's achievement in school. I verify the negative effects of jobloss on children's achievement and show that these effects depend on whether the job displacement was due to a layoff or a firing. I allow for differential jobloss effects by child age to account for children's changing susceptibility to household disruptions during their development. I then consider the duration of jobloss effects over time by explicitly accounting for the duration of time since jobloss. This approach takes explicit account of the age sensitivity of children at different periods of development as well as the time elapsed since experiencing a jobloss. I account for coresiding partners' labor force attachment and further consider the differential effects of jobloss by a measure of family economic insecurity at the time of jobloss.
	Bibliography Citation White, Robert G. "Maternal Job Displacement and Child School Success." Presented: San Diego CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April-May 2015.

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