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Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Resulting in 3 citations.
1. Hart, Betsy
Gore Blows Empty Kisses
Chicago Sun-Times, September 7, 2000, Editorial; Pg. 27
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Chicago Sun-Times
Keyword(s): Gender; Gender Differences; Wage Determination; Wage Differentials; Wage Gap; Wage Levels; Wage Rates; Wages; Wages, Men; Wages, Women

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This opinion piece argues against Al Gore campaigning on gender-based wage inequality, citing National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data which indicates that childless 27-33 year old women earn 98% of men's pay.
Bibliography Citation
Hart, Betsy. "Gore Blows Empty Kisses." Chicago Sun-Times, September 7, 2000, Editorial; Pg. 27.
2. Ritter, Jim
Black Vs. White Scores
Chicago Sun Times, January 21, 1992, SUNDAY NEWS, BRIEFINGS; Pg. 31
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Chicago Sun-Times
Keyword(s): Economic Well-Being; Economics of Minorities; Family Influences; Racial Differences; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT

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This article reports on a study by sociologist Jonathan Crane of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Crane examined data on mothers and children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, an annual survey of 12,686 people born between 1957 and 1964. According to his findings, the lower scores of black participants were due to differences in home environments and socioeconomic status. When all factors were equal, Crane found no differences in scores. Indeed, in one reading test, black children scored higher than whites with the same home and family backgrounds.
Bibliography Citation
Ritter, Jim. "Black Vs. White Scores." Chicago Sun Times, January 21, 1992, SUNDAY NEWS, BRIEFINGS; Pg. 31.
3. Vergano, Dan
Mothers' Careers Don't Hurt Kids
Chicago Sun-Times, February 27, 1999, NWS; Pg. 1
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Chicago Sun-Times
Keyword(s): Child Development; Children, Academic Development; Children, Behavioral Development; Maternal Employment

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Whether working or staying at home, a mother's career choice does not have a negative effect on her children, according to a new study. "Mothers feel guilty both ways, and they really shouldn't," said psychologist Elizabeth Harvey of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, who conducted the study of more than 6,000 mothers and their children. All were participants in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a 20-year federal project. Researchers began interviewing many of the women in the study while they were teenagers. As they grew older, the study assessed their children's development. Earlier research findings had gone back and forth on the issue of whether children of working mothers had more behavior problems and academic deficiencies than children of homemakers. To help settle the issue, Harvey looked at the largest collection of women's responses about their working lives yet gathered while she was working at the University of Connecticut. Her results appear in the March issue of Developmental Psychology, a publication of the American Psychological Association.
Bibliography Citation
Vergano, Dan. "Mothers' Careers Don't Hurt Kids." Chicago Sun-Times, February 27, 1999, NWS; Pg. 1.