Item nonresponse is a problem for all types of survey research. Both age and race were found to be significant predictors in all models estimated. The probability of nonresponse to income questions increased with age and was higher for Whites than non-Whites. (Author/RM)

Racial income covergence is shown to reduce the racial disparity in suicide by raising the suicide rates of non-White males and females. No evidence is found for the claim that the non-White suicide rate is less sensitive than the White suicide rate to economic fluctuations. (Author)

Describes a longitudinal study of changes over time in prisoners' attitudes toward police and lawyers. Evidence suggests that incarceration fosters more positive evaluations of police and more negative evaluations of lawyers. (Author/AV)

Re-examines the classic hypothesis that a relationship exists between racial contact and racial attitudes in the context of recent racial separatism in the military. Finds that the hypothesis coexists with a new divisive force: stronger separatist attitudes and reduced racial contacts on the part of younger Black soldiers. (Author/KC)

This study investigates public service evaluations among blacks and whites in St. Louis, Missouri over the period 1956 to 1968. Changes in levels and sources of satisfaction with schools, parks, police protection, and garbage collection are examined. (Author/RM)

A comparison of real estate price trends in a racially changing neighborhood and an all-white neighborhood. Data reveal a lower rate of property value appreciation in the racially changing neighborhood, apparently as a result of panic selling by white residents. (Author)

Examines the theory that a high concentration of Black people in a given population will create negative racial attitudes within that population. A research study finds that this relationship holds only for southern respondents. Outside the South, racial attitudes appear to be largely insensitive to racial concentration. (Author/AV)

Research results in the self-perceptions of white and black adolescents indicate that black self-images were more positive than those of whites and provided little evidence of self-rejection or self-hate. (Author/DE)

Investigates the effect of residence and race on life satisfaction among older persons living in rural and urban counties in the mid-South. Finds satisfaction highest among rural Blacks followed by urban Whites, rural Whites, and urban Blacks. Examines income and social contact as correlates of life satisfaction. (Author/KC)

How four components of the fertility process--(1) the likelihood of being childless, (2) age at first birth, (3) length of birth intervals, and (4) age at termination of childbearing--contribute to the relationship among race, education, and fertility is examined. (Author/RM)

Compares the ideas and conclusions presented in "School Choice and Culture Wars in the Classroom: What Different Parents Seek from Education" (SO 532 108) to "Liberal Equity on Education: A Comparison of Choice Options." (SO 532 109) Argues that these authors want to achieve the authentic common good and simultaneously respect those people with…

Analyzes characteristics of 14 magnet schools and student transfer applications in Montgomery County, Maryland. Finds White families prefer schools with fewer minorities, while minority families choose schools in lower-income, high-minority neighborhoods. Notes that school characteristics determined by the administration had little independent…

Analyzes data collected in Texas from the first decade of cases sentenced to death after the Furman v. Georgia decision in order to determine any tendency toward being race-linked or victim-based. Found that cases involving White victims more often precipitate the death penalty than those involving Black or Hispanic victims. (KO)

Using data from 1982 National Opinion Research (NORC) General Social Survey, examines women's support for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) by analyzing attitudes about gender and racial equality, and socioeconomic status. Explains Black women's higher ERA approval as deriving from gender-role attitudes, but more important, from experience with,…

A research study revealed that investment in formal occupational training is widespread. While the wage effects of occupational training compare favorably with schooling and general work experience, effects vary considerably among settings and types of training as well as between Whites and Blacks. (Author/RM)