Misclassification means the observed category is different from the underlying one and it is a form of measurement error in categorical data. The measurement error in continuous, especially normally distributed, data is well known and studied in the literature. But the misclassification in a binary outcome variable has not yet drawn much attention…

Existing empirical work looking at the effects of parental income on IQ, schooling, wealth, race, and personality is only able to explain about half of the observed intergenerational income elasticity. This paper provides a possible behavioral explanation for this elasticity in which heterogeneous agents in sequential generations choose their…

Often in sociology, researchers are confronted with nonnormal variables whose joint distribution they wish to explore. Yet, assumptions of common measures of dependence can fail or estimating such dependence is computationally intensive. This article presents the copula method for modeling the joint distribution of two random variables, including…

In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and children's educational achievement, as measured by scores on Peabody Individual Achievement Tests in math and reading, and grade attainment. Data for the study came from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which contains a large, national sample of…

Policies governing divorce and parenting, such as child support orders and enforcement, child custody regulations, and marital dissolution requirements, can have a large impact on the welfare of parents and children. Recent research has produced evidence on the responses of divorce rates to unilateral divorce laws and child support enforcement. In…

Using prospective cohort data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this study examines the extent to which health insurance coverage and the source of that coverage affect adult health. While previous research has shown that privately insured nonelderly individuals enjoy better health outcomes than their uninsured counterparts, the…

An adaptation of the multiple regression approach of De Fries and Fulker (DF analysis) is used to account simultaneously for genetic and environmental influences on achievement. The model was fitted to achievement measures of 1,044 related pairs of children from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY). (SLD)

Recent data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) were used to examine the validity of the traditional human capital model, which predicts that training lowers starting wages and increases wage growth. The primary data sample was restricted to those 4,309 members of the NLSY sample who were working for pay and not enrolled in…

Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) were used to identify the long-term effects of youth delinquency on education and employment. The study utilized data on 1,452 males and 1,397 females who were initially interviewed for the NLSY in 1979 and data collected on the same sample in 1990-1992. The 1990-1992 data set contained…