In this study, the authors scrutinize the intergenerational transmission of book reading and television viewing behaviors. They examine long-term effects of parents’ social status, parental media example, and media guidance activities during one’s childhood on adult media tastes. Data are employed from the Family Survey of the Dutch Population. By estimating structural equation models, the auth...

This paper presents an economic analysis of the intergenerational transmission of ethnic and religious traits through family socialization and marital segregation decisions. Frequency of intragroup marriage (homogamy), as well as socialization rates of religious and ethnic groups, depend on the group’s share of the population: minority groups search more intensely for homogamous mates, and spen...

Family is an important socialization context for youth as they move through early adolescence. A significant feature of this complex socialization context is the accumulation of potential family risk factors that may compromise youth adjustment. This study examined cumulative family risk and adolescents' adjustment difficulties in 416 two-parent families using four waves of annual longitudinal ...

Using a framework that emphasizes independent vs. interdependent self-construals, this study investigates the relatively low rates of early marriage and cohabitation among Asian Americans compared to Whites. Data from Waves 1 and 3 of Add Health are used to test five hypotheses that focus on family value socialization and other precursors measured in adolescence. Analyses of early marriage indi...

This study examines the relationship between family characteristics and adolescent deviant behaviors such as major and minor delinquency, and alcohol, cigarette, and drug use, while controlling for gender and race/ethnicity. The intervening factor of the socialization of law-abiding belief was also examined. Data represent a subsample from Wave 1 of the South Florida Youth Development Project i...

This paper is about ethnic identity. We first develop a model of an individual’s identity as resulting from the interaction of the individual’s identity choice, cultural transmission and socialization inside the family, peer effects and social interactions. We then put the model to data using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities. We show that the main determinants of the intensity...