Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison The Effectiveness of Single-Sex Catholic Secondary Schooling: Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988

Estimating Intergenerational Schooling Mobility on Censored Samples: Consequences and Remedies

In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who are still in school constitute censored observations, and evaluate three solutions to it: replacement of observed with expected years of schooling, maximum likelihood approach, and elimination of all school-aged children. Using intergenerational data from the Wisconsin Longitudi...

Estimating the effect of mother’s schooling on children’s schooling using a sample of adoptees

In a recent paper Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) present empirical evidence that contradicts the conventional wisdom that maternal schooling has a bigger effect on the child’s schooling than that of her husband. They consider the impact of parental schooling on child schooling in the presence of unmeasured ability and assortative mating. Using twin data, they come to the surprising conclusion th...

Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison Adolescent Sex and Subsequent Mental Health: How Sex Affects Adolescent Depression and Self-Esteem

Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison Adolescents’ Transition to First Intercourse, Religiosity and Attitudes about Sex

Using two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines two sets of relationships between attitudes, religiosity and first sex among adolescents. First, I estimate the effects of religiosity and attitudes about sex on the likelihood of engaging in first sex. Then, I estimate the effect of having sex on subsequent religiosity and attitudes. The findings are c...

Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison Coverage Error: The Achilles’ Heel of Web-Based Surveys