W H Yu
Biographic Data
| ID | 17057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W H Yu |
| GIVEN NAMES | W H |
| FAMILY NAME | Yu |
| SIGNATURE | YU W H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3074-3636 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 354 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Evaluation Criteria and Women's Attainment of Elite STEM Education: Evidence from College Admission Records
Research on women's underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields rarely addresses the roles of institutional gatekeepers and their screening criteria. Using full application records of the most prestigious university in Taiwan, we examine how the assessment criteria used by departments to determine admissions shape women's relative chance of entering elite STEM programs. Results from department fixed-effe…
Do Immigrants Experience Morbidity and Disability Disadvantages at Older Ages? A Research Note
Prior studies show that Hispanic and Black immigrants are more susceptible to disabilities and chronic diseases in their later years than U.S.-born Whites, despite their health advantage at younger ages. Such studies often rely on data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which disproportionately includes immigrants who arrived decades ago. The shortage of research on immigrants of other ethnoracial groups further makes it unclear whether …
Paradox Between Immigrant Advantages in Morbidity and Mortality: Dynamic Patterns and Tentative Explanations
Recent research indicates that immigrants are more likely to experience chronic conditions and disabilities than natives at older ages, yet they continue to exhibit lower overall mortality, thus suggesting a morbidity–mortality paradox. We utilize the IPUMS National Health Interview Survey 2002–2018 with linked mortality data through 2019 (n = 405,270) to comprehensively investigate how this paradox unfolds with age for various groups of immigran…
Who opts out of neighborhood schools? Determinants and consequences of school choice strategies in China
Mate preferences and marriage-related behaviors: The case of Japan
ObjectiveThis study examines contributors to mate preferences and their changes, as well as behaviors corresponding to mate preferences in Japan, where mate preferences likely play a role in its steady marriage decline.BackgroundMate preferences are believed to guide mate selection processes. However, previous research has not adequately explained how individuals' circumstances contribute to shifts in preferences and how such shifts are linked to…
Research Note: New Evidence on the Motherhood Wage Penalty
U.S. women's age at first birth has increased substantially. Yet, little research has considered how this changing behavior may have affected the motherhood pay penalty, or the wage decrease with a child's arrival, experienced by the current generation. Using Rounds 1–19 of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), in this research note we examine shifts in hourly pay with childbirth for a cohort of women who became mothers mostly …
Parenthood, earnings, and the relevance of family formation sequences
Prior research sheds little light on how shifts in family formation trajectories have implications for recent cohorts' earnings gains and losses with childbearing. Using longitudinal data from a contemporary cohort, we examine how the pay premium or penalty for parents varies by their relationship status at childbirth and subsequent changes in the status. Fixed effects models show that children born to unpartnered women are associated with substa…
Stability and relevance of marriage desires: Importance of age norms and partnering opportunities
Objective: This study investigates shifts in marriage desires during singlehood and the potential consequences associated with these shifts in Japan, a country epitomizing later and less marriage without substantial increases in nonmarital childbearing. Background: Despite researchers' long-standing interest in values potentially motivating demographic changes, few have systematically examined marriage desires among unmarried adults. Even fewer h…
Who benefits from elite colleges’ decreased reliance on high-stakes standardized tests? Evidence from a quasi-field experiment
Effects of Siblings on Cognitive and Sociobehavioral Development: Ongoing Debates and New Theoretical Insights
Despite social scientists' long-standing interest in the influences of siblings, previous research has not settled the debates on how relevant sibship size is to child development and whether growing up with more siblings could be beneficial. Using 30 years of longitudinal data and fixed-effects models, this study offers the most comprehensive evidence on how sibship size is tied to cognitive and sociobehavioral development. We also advance the l…
Diminished Advantage or Persistent Protection? A New Approach to Assess Immigrants' Mortality Advantages Over Time
Much research has debated whether immigrants' health advantages over natives decline with their duration at destination. Most such research has relied on (pooled) cross-sectional data and used years since immigration as a proxy for the duration of residence, leading to the challenge of distilling the duration effect from the confounding cohort-of-arrival and age-of-arrival effects. Because longitudinal studies tend to use self-rated health as the…
Maternal Age, Early Childhood Temperament, and Youth Outcomes
Demographers and family researchers have long debated whether early childbearing has negative consequences on the offspring, but few have considered that the benefits of delayed childbearing (or the lack thereof) may not be universal. Using sibling data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Children and Young Adults, we investigate how the relevance of mothers' age at childbirth to youth outcomes (academic performance, years of educ…
Research Note: Gender Differences in Employment During the Covid-19 Epidemic
We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on gender disparities in three employment outcomes: labor force participation, full-time employment, and unemployment. Using data from the monthly Current Population Survey, in this research note we test individual fixed-effects models to examine the employment status of women relative to that of men in the nine months following the onset of the epidemic in March of 2020. We also test separate mo…
Do immigrants’ health advantages remain after unemployment? Variations by race‐ethnicity and gender
Immigrants tend to display more favorable health outcomes than native‐born co‐ethnics. At the same time, they face considerable employment instability. It is unclear whether immigrants’ job conditions may compromise their health advantage. Using U.S. National Health Interview Survey data, this study shows that the experience of unemployment reduces immigrants’ health advantage, but unemployed foreign‐born Blacks, White women, and Asian women stil…
Time Is Money? Wage Premiums and Penalties for Time-Related Occupational Demands
Despite research linking time-related work demands to gender inequality, the literature lacks a comprehensive analysis of wage premiums and penalties associated with differing temporal demands. Using longitudinal data and fixed-effects models that address unobserved heterogeneity among workers, we examine how various temporal constraints imposed by occupations are associated with pay. Unlike prior studies, our analysis separates an individual's w…
What Does it Take to Get Ahead? Individual Characteristics, Community Contexts, and Stratification Beliefs among Youth in China
Research on youth in disadvantaged neighborhoods suggests that community contexts can affect youth’s beliefs about what it takes to get ahead. Nevertheless, a systematic analysis of such beliefs across a variety of communities remains rare. Using data from the China Family Panel Study from 2010 to 2014, we examine how individual characteristics, community socioeconomic status (SES), and their interplay are linked to young adolescents’ views on th…
Motherhood Penalties and Fatherhood Premiums: Effects of Parenthood on Earnings Growth Within and Across Firms
Despite much interest in how parenthood contributes to the gender pay gap, prior research has rarely explored firms' roles in shaping the parenthood pay penalty or premium. The handful of studies that investigated parenthood's effects within and across firms generally compared parents and their childless peers at a given time and failed to account for unobserved heterogeneity between the two groups. Such comparisons also cannot inform how having …
Gender-Atypical Occupations and Instability of Intimate Unions: Examining the Relationship and Mechanisms
Although social scientists have long been interested in the effects of occupational gender composition on workers, previous research has rarely examined how working in a gender-atypical occupation affects people's private lives. This study draws on 17 rounds of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to investigate how individuals in occupations with varying gender ratios differ in the stability of their intimate unions. The auth…
Does school learning shape gender ideology? Academic performance and adolescents' attitudes toward gender practices
Job characteristics, marital intentions, and partner-seeking actions: Longitudinal evidence from Japan
BACKGROUND: Most research linking jobs to marriage formation focuses on how job contexts and prospects affect singles' paces of entering marriage. Direct evidence on whether job traits shape singles' desire for marriage and actions toward forming a union remains scarce. OBJECTIVE: We examine how changes in a range of job characteristics correspond to alterations in never-married people's intention to marry and actions taken to meet romantic partn…
Race-ethnicity, class, and unemployment dynamics: Do macroeconomic shifts alter existing disadvantages
Comparing same- and different-sex relationship dynamics: Experiences of young adults in Taiwan
BACKGROUND: Few studies of same-sex relationships are able to capture the dynamics of these relationships from formation to dissolution, and even fewer provide evidence on these dynamics in a non-Western context. OBJECTIVE: Using retrospective relationship history data collected from a nationally representative sample of young adults, this study compares the processes of forming and terminating relationships between same- and different-sex couple…
Parent-Child Coresidence and Experiences of Romantic Relationships: Evidence from Young Adults in Taiwan
Research on the consequences of young adults' extended coresidence with parents indicates that coresident singles marry later, with a recent study specifically attributing this pattern to thesesingles' lesser engagement in romantic relationships.Nevertheless, we do not know exactly how coresident singles' relationship dynamics differ from those of individuals living independently and whether the former's relationships are qualitatively different.…
Does Parenthood Foster Traditionalism? Childrearing and Alterations in Gender and Family Attitudes in Japan
Prior studies of gender and family attitudes indicate that the arrival of a child, a major life-course event, may contribute to shifts in these attitudes. Virtually no research, however, examines attitudinal changes accompanying parenthood in non-Western contexts, where childrearing experiences are likely to differ. Using longitudinal data and fixed-effects models, we investigate how having a child, as well as having a daughter versus a son, is a…
Fertility responses to individual and contextual unemployment: Differences by socioeconomic background
Although research on the consequences of economic recession has long linked unemployment with childbearing, it rarely distinguishes the effects of individualsâ own unemployment and their surroundingsâ unemployment levels on their likelihood of having child
The Motherhood Wage Penalty by Work Conditions: How Do Occupational Characteristics Hinder or Empower Mothers
Mothers are shown to receive lower wages than childless women across industrial countries. Although research on mothers' wage disadvantage has noted that the extent of this disadvantage is not universal among mothers, it has paid relatively little attention to how the structural characteristics of jobs moderate the price women pay for motherhood. Using data from 16 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth that began in 1997, we examine …
Decomposing Gender Beliefs: Cross-National Differences in Attitudes Toward Maternal Employment and Gender Equality at Home
Few cross-national studies distinguish between different aspects of gender egalitarianism and compare them systematically. In this study, we examine cross-national differences in attitudes toward mothers' participation in the labor market and toward gender equality within the household, using a multilevel analysis of individual data from 33 nations. The results indicate greater support for employed mothers, but a lower level of approval of gender…
Gender, Sibship Structure, and Educational Inequality in Taiwan: Son Preference Revisited
This study examines how sibship characteristics affect educational attainment in Taiwan. Using a multilevel analysis of a sibling sample of 12,715 observations from 3,001 families drawn from a national survey, we investigate the effects of family size, sibship density, birth-order rank, and sibship gender composition. The results support the argument that the effect of son preference on intrafamily educational inequality is conditional on family …
Economic Globalization and Women's Employment: The Case of Manufacturing in Mexico
Sociological research has been generally critical of the effects of economic globalization on developing countries. However, greater worldwide economic integration may have created new employment opportunities for women. In this article, we examine the effect of foreign investment and export production on gender inequality in Mexico, a country that epitomizes the global shift to an open-market economic strategy. Using data from nationally represe…
Placing Families in Context: Challenges for Cross-National Family Research
Cross-national comparisons constitute a valuable strategy to assess how broader cultural, political, and institutional contexts shape family outcomes. One typical approach of cross-national family research is to use comparable data from a limited number of countries, fit similar regression models for each country, and compare results across country-specific models. Researchers increasingly are adopting a second approach, which requires merging da…
Explaining the Effect of Parent-Child Coresidence on Marriage Formation: The Case of Japan
Many single adult children in countries around the world live with their parents. Such coresidence has been thought to delay the transition to first marriage, although the exact reasons for the delay have not been sufficiently examined. Using panel data from Japan, we investigate whether changes in never-married adults’ residential status lead to alterations in their marital aspirations, courtship behaviors, romantic opportunities, and perceived …
Changes in women’s postmarital employment in Japan and Taiwan
Research on female labor-force participation has not fully explained why economic development has different effects on married women’s employment continuity across societies. I use life-history data from nationally representative samples of women in Japan and Taiwan to examine the divergence in women’s patterns of labor-force exit in these two countries during the postwar period. The findings reveal that the effects of family demands, occupation,…
Motherhood Penalties and Fatherhood Premiums: Effects of Parenthood on Earnings Growth Within and Across Firms
Despite much interest in how parenthood contributes to the gender pay gap, prior research has rarely explored firms' roles in shaping the parenthood pay penalty or premium. The handful of studies that investigated parenthood's effects within and across firms generally compared parents and their childless peers at a given time and failed to account for unobserved heterogeneity between the two groups. Such comparisons also cannot inform how having …
Crime, Fear, and Mental Health in Mexico
This article examines the effect of exposure to criminal violence on fear of crime and mental health in Mexico, a country that has experienced a dramatic rise in violent events resulting from the operation of drug trafficking organizations (DTOs). Data are drawn from more than 30,000 respondents to a national longitudinal survey of Mexican households. We use fixed‐effects models which allow us to control for time‐invariant individual and municipa…
The Psychological Cost of Market Transition: Mental Health Disparities in Reform-Era China
China's post-1978 economic reform has led to fundamental changes in its urban life. Yet little attention has been paid to the effects of this massive societal transformation on individuals' psychological well-being. Using survey data collected from a national sample of 3,443 Chinese urban residents in 2005, I examine the effects of employment conditions, political affiliation, and regional level of marketization on self-reported symptoms of psych…
Effects of Siblings on Cognitive and Sociobehavioral Development: Ongoing Debates and New Theoretical Insights
Despite social scientists' long-standing interest in the influences of siblings, previous research has not settled the debates on how relevant sibship size is to child development and whether growing up with more siblings could be beneficial. Using 30 years of longitudinal data and fixed-effects models, this study offers the most comprehensive evidence on how sibship size is tied to cognitive and sociobehavioral development. We also advance the l…
Parent-Child Coresidence and Experiences of Romantic Relationships: Evidence from Young Adults in Taiwan
Research on the consequences of young adults' extended coresidence with parents indicates that coresident singles marry later, with a recent study specifically attributing this pattern to thesesingles' lesser engagement in romantic relationships.Nevertheless, we do not know exactly how coresident singles' relationship dynamics differ from those of individuals living independently and whether the former's relationships are qualitatively different.…
Fertility responses to individual and contextual unemployment: Differences by socioeconomic background
Although research on the consequences of economic recession has long linked unemployment with childbearing, it rarely distinguishes the effects of individualsâ own unemployment and their surroundingsâ unemployment levels on their likelihood of having child
Family Characteristics and Mate Selection: Evidence From Computer-Assisted Dating in Japan
Research on mate selection rarely considers singles' preferences for their future partners' family configurations and experiences. Using online dating records from a matchmaking agency in Japan, a society with a strong emphasis on family and kinship, we examine how singles' responses to date requests correspond to potential mates' family circumstances. Results showed that singles' preferences for potential partners' family characteristics stem fr…
Enduring an economic crisis: The effect of macroeconomic shocks on intragenerational mobility in Japan
Sibship Characteristics and Transition to First Marriage in Taiwan: Explaining Gender Asymmetries
Job characteristics, marital intentions, and partner-seeking actions: Longitudinal evidence from Japan
BACKGROUND: Most research linking jobs to marriage formation focuses on how job contexts and prospects affect singles' paces of entering marriage. Direct evidence on whether job traits shape singles' desire for marriage and actions toward forming a union remains scarce. OBJECTIVE: We examine how changes in a range of job characteristics correspond to alterations in never-married people's intention to marry and actions taken to meet romantic partn…
Diminished Advantage or Persistent Protection? A New Approach to Assess Immigrants' Mortality Advantages Over Time
Much research has debated whether immigrants' health advantages over natives decline with their duration at destination. Most such research has relied on (pooled) cross-sectional data and used years since immigration as a proxy for the duration of residence, leading to the challenge of distilling the duration effect from the confounding cohort-of-arrival and age-of-arrival effects. Because longitudinal studies tend to use self-rated health as the…
Research Note: Gender Differences in Employment During the Covid-19 Epidemic
We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on gender disparities in three employment outcomes: labor force participation, full-time employment, and unemployment. Using data from the monthly Current Population Survey, in this research note we test individual fixed-effects models to examine the employment status of women relative to that of men in the nine months following the onset of the epidemic in March of 2020. We also test separate mo…
National Contexts and Dynamics of Married Women's Employment Reentry: The Cases of Japan and Taiwan
Previous research has paid little attention to how the national context shapes women's work trajectories. In this study, I examine the rate of married women's labor force reentry in Japan and Taiwan, using event history data constructed from the 1995 Social Stratification and Social Mobility (SSM) Survey for the former and the 1996 Social Change (SC) Survey for the latter. The analysis reveals that Japanese women's timing of reentry reflects chan…
Comparing same- and different-sex relationship dynamics: Experiences of young adults in Taiwan
BACKGROUND: Few studies of same-sex relationships are able to capture the dynamics of these relationships from formation to dissolution, and even fewer provide evidence on these dynamics in a non-Western context. OBJECTIVE: Using retrospective relationship history data collected from a nationally representative sample of young adults, this study compares the processes of forming and terminating relationships between same- and different-sex couple…
Another work-family interface: Work characteristics and family intentions in Japan
Previous research highlights the importance of job and workplace characteristics in the workâ family interface. Nevertheless, we know little about how the specific context of work is related to singlesâ marriage and parenthood intentions
Do immigrants’ health advantages remain after unemployment? Variations by race‐ethnicity and gender
Immigrants tend to display more favorable health outcomes than native‐born co‐ethnics. At the same time, they face considerable employment instability. It is unclear whether immigrants’ job conditions may compromise their health advantage. Using U.S. National Health Interview Survey data, this study shows that the experience of unemployment reduces immigrants’ health advantage, but unemployed foreign‐born Blacks, White women, and Asian women stil…
Gender-Atypical Occupations and Instability of Intimate Unions: Examining the Relationship and Mechanisms
Although social scientists have long been interested in the effects of occupational gender composition on workers, previous research has rarely examined how working in a gender-atypical occupation affects people's private lives. This study draws on 17 rounds of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to investigate how individuals in occupations with varying gender ratios differ in the stability of their intimate unions. The auth…
Gendered Work in Asian Cities: The New Economy and Changing Labour Markets
Changes in women’s postmarital employment in Japan and Taiwan
Research on female labor-force participation has not fully explained why economic development has different effects on married women’s employment continuity across societies. I use life-history data from nationally representative samples of women in Japan and Taiwan to examine the divergence in women’s patterns of labor-force exit in these two countries during the postwar period. The findings reveal that the effects of family demands, occupation,…
National Contexts and Dynamics of Married Women's Employment Reentry: The Cases of Japan and Taiwan
Previous research has paid little attention to how the national context shapes women's work trajectories. In this study, I examine the rate of married women's labor force reentry in Japan and Taiwan, using event history data constructed from the 1995 Social Stratification and Social Mobility (SSM) Survey for the former and the 1996 Social Change (SC) Survey for the latter. The analysis reveals that Japanese women's timing of reentry reflects chan…
Gender, Sibship Structure, and Educational Inequality in Taiwan: Son Preference Revisited
This study examines how sibship characteristics affect educational attainment in Taiwan. Using a multilevel analysis of a sibling sample of 12,715 observations from 3,001 families drawn from a national survey, we investigate the effects of family size, sibship density, birth-order rank, and sibship gender composition. The results support the argument that the effect of son preference on intrafamily educational inequality is conditional on family …
Product Review: Gendered Work in Asian Cities: The New Economy and Changing Labour Markets
Economic Globalization and Women's Employment: The Case of Manufacturing in Mexico
Sociological research has been generally critical of the effects of economic globalization on developing countries. However, greater worldwide economic integration may have created new employment opportunities for women. In this article, we examine the effect of foreign investment and export production on gender inequality in Mexico, a country that epitomizes the global shift to an open-market economic strategy. Using data from nationally represe…
Gendered Work in Asian Cities: The New Economy and Changing Labour Markets
The Psychological Cost of Market Transition: Mental Health Disparities in Reform-Era China
China's post-1978 economic reform has led to fundamental changes in its urban life. Yet little attention has been paid to the effects of this massive societal transformation on individuals' psychological well-being. Using survey data collected from a national sample of 3,443 Chinese urban residents in 2005, I examine the effects of employment conditions, political affiliation, and regional level of marketization on self-reported symptoms of psych…
Gendered Trajectories: Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan
Gendered Trajectories: Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan
This book explores why industrial societies vary in the pace at which they reduce gender inequality and compares changes in women's employment opportunities in Japan and Taiwan over the last half-century. Japan has undergone much less improvement in women's economic status than Taiwan, despite its more advanced economy and greater welfare provisions. The difference is particularly puzzling because the two countries share many institutional practi…
Enduring an economic crisis: The effect of macroeconomic shocks on intragenerational mobility in Japan
Better Off Jobless? Scarring Effects of Contingent Employment in Japan
Previous research fails to address whether contingent employment benefits individuals' careers more than the alternative they often face: being without a job. Using work history data from Japan, this study shows that accepting a contingent job delays individuals' transition to standard employment more than remaining jobless. Moreover, having a contingent job, rather than having no job, leads Japanese men to have lower occupational status after th…
Sibship Characteristics and Transition to First Marriage in Taiwan: Explaining Gender Asymmetries
It's Who You Work With: Effects of Workplace Shares of Nonstandard Employees and Women in Japan
Previous research on workplace composition has not addressed how the share of nonstandard employees affects individual workers' opportunities and well-being. Moreover, existing studies generally assume that the effect of a group's numerical representation is mediated through the group's relative power and status within establishments. This study asks whether workplace composition matters when the size of each social group has little impact on its…
Off to a good start: A comparative study of changes in men's first job prospects in East Asia
Decomposing Gender Beliefs: Cross-National Differences in Attitudes Toward Maternal Employment and Gender Equality at Home
Few cross-national studies distinguish between different aspects of gender egalitarianism and compare them systematically. In this study, we examine cross-national differences in attitudes toward mothers' participation in the labor market and toward gender equality within the household, using a multilevel analysis of individual data from 33 nations. The results indicate greater support for employed mothers, but a lower level of approval of gender…
Placing Families in Context: Challenges for Cross-National Family Research
Cross-national comparisons constitute a valuable strategy to assess how broader cultural, political, and institutional contexts shape family outcomes. One typical approach of cross-national family research is to use comparable data from a limited number of countries, fit similar regression models for each country, and compare results across country-specific models. Researchers increasingly are adopting a second approach, which requires merging da…
Explaining the Effect of Parent-Child Coresidence on Marriage Formation: The Case of Japan
Many single adult children in countries around the world live with their parents. Such coresidence has been thought to delay the transition to first marriage, although the exact reasons for the delay have not been sufficiently examined. Using panel data from Japan, we investigate whether changes in never-married adults’ residential status lead to alterations in their marital aspirations, courtship behaviors, romantic opportunities, and perceived …
Growing Pains: Changes in Psychological Well-Being in Urban China
Crime, Fear, and Mental Health in Mexico
This article examines the effect of exposure to criminal violence on fear of crime and mental health in Mexico, a country that has experienced a dramatic rise in violent events resulting from the operation of drug trafficking organizations (DTOs). Data are drawn from more than 30,000 respondents to a national longitudinal survey of Mexican households. We use fixed‐effects models which allow us to control for time‐invariant individual and municipa…
The Motherhood Wage Penalty by Work Conditions: How Do Occupational Characteristics Hinder or Empower Mothers
Mothers are shown to receive lower wages than childless women across industrial countries. Although research on mothers' wage disadvantage has noted that the extent of this disadvantage is not universal among mothers, it has paid relatively little attention to how the structural characteristics of jobs moderate the price women pay for motherhood. Using data from 16 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth that began in 1997, we examine …
Another work-family interface: Work characteristics and family intentions in Japan
Previous research highlights the importance of job and workplace characteristics in the workâ family interface. Nevertheless, we know little about how the specific context of work is related to singlesâ marriage and parenthood intentions
Tradeoff or Winner Take All? Relationships between Job Security and Earnings in 32 Countries
Whereas some researchers suggest that workers face a tradeoff between job security and earnings, others imply that low earnings and high unemployment risks tend to accompany each other. Despite the contradictory views, direct evidence on whether, holding skill levels constant, insecure jobs pay more-or less-is lacking. Equally lacking is an understanding of how the national context may condition the way in which job security is associated with ea…
Does Parenthood Foster Traditionalism? Childrearing and Alterations in Gender and Family Attitudes in Japan
Prior studies of gender and family attitudes indicate that the arrival of a child, a major life-course event, may contribute to shifts in these attitudes. Virtually no research, however, examines attitudinal changes accompanying parenthood in non-Western contexts, where childrearing experiences are likely to differ. Using longitudinal data and fixed-effects models, we investigate how having a child, as well as having a daughter versus a son, is a…
Fertility responses to individual and contextual unemployment: Differences by socioeconomic background
Although research on the consequences of economic recession has long linked unemployment with childbearing, it rarely distinguishes the effects of individualsâ own unemployment and their surroundingsâ unemployment levels on their likelihood of having child
Family Characteristics and Mate Selection: Evidence From Computer-Assisted Dating in Japan
Research on mate selection rarely considers singles' preferences for their future partners' family configurations and experiences. Using online dating records from a matchmaking agency in Japan, a society with a strong emphasis on family and kinship, we examine how singles' responses to date requests correspond to potential mates' family circumstances. Results showed that singles' preferences for potential partners' family characteristics stem fr…
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