Surveys issues related to recent and prospective schooling investment in developing countries, including educational levels, changes, and demands between 1960-81, and identifies under- and over-achieving countries. Standard estimates overstate schooling impacts by not controlling for school quality, childhood family background, and geographical…

Studied long-term consequences of adolescent marriage in three age cohorts of males. Found that Black and White males who married as adolescents completed less education, earned less, held lower-status occupations, and experienced more marital disruption than did peers who married as adults. (Author/NB)

Explores whether changes in the size of cohorts entering the labor force affected the propensity within the U.S. labor force to migrate and socioeconomic circumstances of migrants at destination within 1965-76. Suggests that a significant reduction in the volume of migration among members of the baby boom cohort was the primary adjustment…

This support document accompanies the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) report "From School to Work: The Role of Traineeships" (ED493902). It contains a comprehensive review of the literature referred to in that report and detailed descriptions and results of the econometric modeling upon which the findings are…

The goal of this paper is to introduce education researchers to a new approach for measuring the impact of whole-school reform. The approach is based on interrupted time-series analysis, which has been used to evaluate programs in many fields, but has not been used widely to study education initiatives. The application presented measures program…

The number of community college degrees and certificates awarded has increased steadily during the time of Performance Based Budgeting in Florida. The vast majority of Community College System awards are one of the following four types: Associate in Arts (AA), Associate in Science (AS), postsecondary vocational certificate (PSVC), and…

Compared 31 divorced and 28 remarried mothers to study differences in their sense of competence and well-being. Results showed remarried mothers had a higher sense of competence and satisfaction in the areas of love, community, and homemaking. Differences in income were significant. (JAC)

Analyzed data on employment after marriage for a cohort of women born around 1938. Results show a decline in the propensity to follow a conventional pattern of leaving the work force due to marriage or childbirth. The double track pattern of employment during childrearing is more common. (Author/JAC)

Assessed the effects of cohabitation on subsequent marital adjustment. A comparison of couples (N=54) who had lived together before marriage with couples (N=30) who had not, showed significant differences. Unexpectedly, noncohabiters obtained higher marital satisfaction scores. Possible explanations in terms of test items are suggested.…

Analysis of survey data indicated that in general, attitudes of Whites toward residential integration became more liberal between 1958 and 1967. The amount of racial tolerance and changes in tolerance over time depended on Whites' perceptions of changes in their group position (as a majority) resulting from integration. (Author/MJL)

Compared physically abused male preschoolers (N=11) with nonabused matched controls on the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities and the Wide Range Achievement Test. Significant differences were found on the Verbal and Memory Scales and the General Cognitive Index of the McCarthy. No behavioral differences were noted. (Author/JAC)

Compared homeless aged men who live on the Bowry or in hotel rooms in New York City. Results showed homelessness is not a uniform category. Sociability differentiated them from nonhomeless age peers and socioeconomic status differentiated the two groups; also found differences in each groups' social adaptation. (Author/JAC)

Discussed the utility of a measure of aggression using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Although child abusers significantly differed from a distressed and socioeconomic status-matched group on this scale, a discriminative analysis on the scale failed to adequately differentiate the groups. (Author)

A matched sample of Social Security and Current Population Survey records is used to determine life-cycle earnings patterns of White males. Estimated effects of schooling and experience compare well with other studies, but interaction effects with cohort do not. Military experience plays a powerful role in earnings differences across cohorts.…

Assessed demographic characteristics, attitudes toward lifelong education, and class format preferences of older adult students enrolled in credit classes. More respondents were employed, home owning, and younger than auditing and nonparticipant elders, with 16 percent having fewer than 12 years of education, and 4.8 percent no previous experience…