Catherine Doren
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View article: Continuing Education and Stratification at Midlife
Continuing Education and Stratification at Midlife Open
We ask whether patterns of racial ethnic and socioeconomic stratification in educational attainment are amplified or attenuated when we take a longer view of educational careers. We propose a model of staged advantage to understand how edu…
View article: Trends in Years Spent as Mothers of Young Children: The Role of Completed Fertility, Birth Spacing, and Multiple Partner Fertility
Trends in Years Spent as Mothers of Young Children: The Role of Completed Fertility, Birth Spacing, and Multiple Partner Fertility Open
The number of years women spend as mothers of young children likely has implications for women’s lifetime wages, earnings, and time use. Much prior research has pointed to widening education differences in a wide array of family patterns, …
View article: Maternal Education, Family Formation, and Child Development: The Continuing Significance of Race
Maternal Education, Family Formation, and Child Development: The Continuing Significance of Race Open
Objective Family formation patterns and their attendant benefits for children have diverged by maternal education in recent decades, but has there been racial variation in these trends? Background Theories of intersectionality and structur…
View article: Diverging Trajectories or Parallel Pathways? An Intersectional and Life Course Approach to the Gender Earnings Gap by Race and Education
Diverging Trajectories or Parallel Pathways? An Intersectional and Life Course Approach to the Gender Earnings Gap by Race and Education Open
Integrating ideas about intersectionality with life course theories, we explore how trajectories of gender earnings inequality vary across race and education. Past research suggests that gender earnings gaps by race and education are narro…
View article: Which Mothers Pay a Higher Price? Education Differences in Motherhood Wage Penalties by Parity and Fertility Timing
Which Mothers Pay a Higher Price? Education Differences in Motherhood Wage Penalties by Parity and Fertility Timing Open
Upon becoming mothers, women often experience a wage decline-a "motherhood wage penalty." Recent scholarship suggests the penalty's magnitude differs by educational attainment. Yet education is also predictive of when women have children a…
View article: Is Two Too Many? Parity and Mothers' Labor Force Exit
Is Two Too Many? Parity and Mothers' Labor Force Exit Open
Objective: How do women's chances of labor force exit vary by the number of children they have? Background: Conventional wisdom suggests that there may be a tipping point at the second child when women are particularly likely to leave. Wom…
View article: What Skills Can Buy
What Skills Can Buy Open
Parental income and wealth contribute to children’s success but are at least partly endogenous to parents’ cognitive and noncognitive skills. We estimate the degree to which mothers’ skills measured in early adulthood confound the relation…