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Title: The Effects of Parental Occupational Status, Age at First Fertility and Educational Attainment on the Occupational Prestige of Young Women
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Sylvester, Mary Alice |
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The Effects of Parental Occupational Status, Age at First Fertility and Educational Attainment on the Occupational Prestige of Young Women Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1980. Also: http://books.google.com/books/about/The_effects_of_parental_occupational_sta.html?id=L3jrNwAACAAJ Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Family Influences; Fertility; Occupational Status; Racial Differences The interrelationship of mothers' and fathers' occupational status, daughters' age at first fertility, daughters' educational attainment, and daughters' occupational status are examined for the Young Women's cohort of the NLS. The effects for black and white girls are examined separately and in combination in a causal model, using multiple regression analysis. The model for the entire population proved the two major hypotheses quite nicely. Mothers' and fathers' occupational status influenced both fertility and education, fertility influenced education and education influenced occupation. The effects of mothers' occupational status were stronger than were those of fathers' occupational status. In the model for white women, fathers' occupational status was retained because it slightly influenced age at first fertility and occupational status. Mothers' occupational attainment continued to influence the daughters' age at first fertility and educational attainment. The impact of education on occupational prestige was stronger than in the total model. This was read as an indication that black women were working in occupations in which the prestige level was less congruent with their education than was the case for white women and their removal from the model allowed the strength of the relationship to increase. Neither mothers' nor fathers' occupational status for black women proved to be relevant to age at first fertility. This was attributed to the preponderance of mothers working in domestic and service occupations and fathers working as laborers or within service occupations. |
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Sylvester, Mary Alice. The Effects of Parental Occupational Status, Age at First Fertility and Educational Attainment on the Occupational Prestige of Young Women. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1980.. |