John C Henretta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John C Henretta |
| GIVEN NAMES | John C |
| FAMILY NAME | Henretta |
| SIGNATURE | HENRETTA J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 544 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Cohort Differences in Parental Financial Help to Adult Children
In this article, we examine birth cohort differences in parents’ provision of monetary help to adult children with particular focus on the extent to which cohort differences in family structure and the transition to adulthood influence these changes. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study from 1994 to 2010, we compare financial help to children of three respondent cohorts as the parents in these birth cohorts from ages 53–58 to 57–62. We…
Childhood Circumstances and Mid-Life Functional Mobility
Early life circumstances play substantial direct and indirect roles in molding functional level in late mid-life
Intergenerational Occupational Mobility and Objective Physical Functioning in Midlife and Older Ages
The mechanisms through which childhood origin affects health in later life are complex, but the position attained in adult life is most important. Intergenerational mobility is important only insofar as it leads to a destination occupation. The present findings suggest that the musculoskeletal system may accommodate environmental modification in adulthood
Parental Money Help to Children and Stepchildren
Divorce and remarriage have reshaped the American family giving rise to questions about the place of stepchildren in remarried families. In this article, we examine money transfers from a couple to each of their children. We introduce characteristics of the family and estimate the role of shared family membership affecting all children in the family as well as the difference that stepchild status and other individual characteristics make in trans…
Family structure and the reproduction of inequality: Parents' contribution to children's college costs
Why Do Families Differ? Children's Care for an Unmarried Mother
An adult child's provision of care to an unmarried elderly mother varies both within and between families. Within-family differences address the variation in different children's behavior within in a family. Between-family differences refer to the propensities that members of a family-the children of one mother-share and that differentiate them from other families. Previous research suggests five hypotheses affecting either within-family or betwe…
Lifetime Marital History and Mortality After Age 50
Research on marital status and health should consider marital history as well as current status. Two topics are particularly important: examining the relationship in different cohorts and disentangling the potentially causal role of health behaviors such as smoking
Early Childbearing, Marital Status, and Women's Health and Mortality after Age 50
This article examines the relationship between a woman's childbearing history and her later health and mortality, with primary focus on whether the association between them is due to early and later socioeconomic status. Data are drawn from the Health and Retirement Study birth cohort of 1931-1941. Results indicate that, conditional on reaching midlife and controlling for early and later socioeconomic status, a first birth before age 20 is associ…
Between elderly parents and adult children: A new look at the intergenerational care provided by the ‘sandwich generation’
The ‘sandwich generation’ has been conceptualised as those mid-life adults who simultaneously raise dependent children and care for frail elderly parents. Such a combination of dependants is in fact very unusual, and the more common situation is when adults in late mid-life or early old age have one or more surviving parents and adult but still partly dependent children. It can be hypothesised that for parents in this pivotal position, the demand…
The influence of socio-economic and health differences on parents' provision of help to adult children: A British–United States comparison
Transfers of assistance from older to younger family members are an important, though often ignored, component of intergenerational exchanges. The ability to help younger family members, either financially or practically, may be influenced by the health and socio-economic status of older parents, but very little is known about these patterns. This article examines the effects of socio-economic and health status on the help that late mid-life pare…
Age and Inequality: Diverse Pathways Through Later Life
Socioeconomic Differences in Having Living Parents and Children: A U.S.‐British Comparison of Middle‐Aged Women
This article examines the relationship between socioeconomic status and having living children and parents among 55‐ to 63‐year‐old women in the United States and Britain. The goals are to quantify the outcomes of slightly different demographic regimes on close kin networks and to assess the potential implications of policies that in both countries increasingly emphasize family responsibility. In the cohorts examined, U.S. respondents are substan…
Patterns of Change in Self-Reported Oral Health Among Dentate Adults
BACKGROUND: Although self-assessments of oral health have become useful tools in dental research, the use of self-reports to study changes in oral health over time has been limited. The aim of this investigation was to describe how oral disease and tissue damage, pain, functional limitation, disadvantage, and self-rated oral health change over time. METHODS: The Florida Dental Care Study (FDCS) (n = 873) is a longitudinal study of oral health amo…
Changing Perspectives on Retirement
I the past several years, retirement research has given increasing attention to the complexity of the work-toretirement transition. The article by Mutchler et al. (1997) elsewhere in this issue illustrates the trend with its analytic focus on differentiating between crisp one-step movements from work to retirement and blurred transitions involving complex patterns such as returns to employment and second retirements. This literature's general arg…
Race Differences in the Health of Elders who Live Alone
This investigation was initiated to determine whether older African Americans who live alone are in poorer health than their White counterparts who live under the same circumstances. Data on 5 measures of health were collected in telephone interviews with a stratified random sample of community-dwelling elders (n = 1,189). Analysis of weighted data indicate that there were fewer differences in health by race among older persons who lived alone co…
Selection of Children To Provide Care: The Effect of Earlier Parental Transfers
We use the first wave of data from the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study to examine the effects of past parent-to-child financial transfers on selection of a child to provide assistance with basic personal care for unmarried parents. We estimate a fixed-effects conditional logit model and find a positive and significant association between past financial transfers and a child's current helping behavior. The coefficient …
Differences by Race in the Decline of Health Over Time
Previous research on race differences in health, we believe, has failed to take into account the initial state of health of the respondents. Other research has demonstrated that elders in poor health are more likely to experience a change in their health over time. It is unclear if the greater probability of decline in health observed among African Americans is a result of being more likely to begin such observations in health states that are wor…
Cohort Differences in Men's Late-Life Labor Force Participation
This article uses the 1964 to 1992 March Current Population Survey data to examine cohort differences in men's late-life labor force participation for the 1895-1934 birth cohorts. Results using an age-period-cohort model indicate that a substantial portion of cohort differences may be attributed to changing levels of social security benefits, the proportion of workers receiving disability benefits, and the unemployment rate. The results also indi…
Joint Role Investments and Synchronization of Retirement: A Sequential Approach to Couples' Retirement Timing
Journal Article Joint Role Investments and Synchronization of Retirement: A Sequential Approach to Couples' Retirement Timing Get access John C. Henretta, John C. Henretta University of Florida Direct correspondence to John C. Henretta, Department of Sociology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Angela M. O'Rand, Angela M. O'Rand Duke University Search for other w…
The Social Context of Race Differentials in Juvenile Justice Dispositions
Proponents of traditional conflict theory have argued that minority races receive harsher justice system dispositions because they lack the power and resources to ensure equal treatment. Hawkins' (1987) proposed revision of this model predicts minoritv races will receive harsher dispositions in social contexts in which their power threatens the dominant group's hegemony.This study uses juvenile justice processing data from the 32 Florida SMA coun…
Uniformity and Diversity: Life Course Institutionalization and Late-Life Work Exit
Recent research and theory argue that regulation of the life course, whether by state regulation, workplace dynamics, or economic and social trends, makes the life course more institutionally-dependent and uniform in timing. This article develops a more precise conceptualization of uniformity of life course transitions, distinguishing two facets: universality in event occurrence and variability in event timing. This distinction is unclear in many…
Bridges to Retirement: Older Workers in a Changing Labor Market
Workers Versus Pensioners: Intergenerational Justice in an Ageing World
This is a collection of essays resulting from a conference on demographic aging and intergenerational transfers held in Cambridge England in July 1988. first section of the book presents a broad interpretation of intergenerational conflict from the distinct perspectives of demography economics philosophy and social policy. The second section examines in detail the growing economic conflict between workers and pensioners embodied in public and pri…
On Time and Method
America's Older Population
Between elderly parents and adult children: A new look at the intergenerational care provided by the ‘sandwich generation’
The ‘sandwich generation’ has been conceptualised as those mid-life adults who simultaneously raise dependent children and care for frail elderly parents. Such a combination of dependants is in fact very unusual, and the more common situation is when adults in late mid-life or early old age have one or more surviving parents and adult but still partly dependent children. It can be hypothesised that for parents in this pivotal position, the demand…
Parental Status and Child's Home Ownership
This paper explores the relation of parents' status to their children's home ownership. Home ownership by parents increases the probability of a child's home ownership. Parents' income is positively associated with the value of children's homes among owners, though it has no effect on probability of ownership. The effect of parents' income on home value is mediated by the level of gifts among black households and by parents' home value among whit…
Selection of Children To Provide Care: The Effect of Earlier Parental Transfers
We use the first wave of data from the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study to examine the effects of past parent-to-child financial transfers on selection of a child to provide assistance with basic personal care for unmarried parents. We estimate a fixed-effects conditional logit model and find a positive and significant association between past financial transfers and a child's current helping behavior. The coefficient …
Early Childbearing, Marital Status, and Women's Health and Mortality after Age 50
This article examines the relationship between a woman's childbearing history and her later health and mortality, with primary focus on whether the association between them is due to early and later socioeconomic status. Data are drawn from the Health and Retirement Study birth cohort of 1931-1941. Results indicate that, conditional on reaching midlife and controlling for early and later socioeconomic status, a first birth before age 20 is associ…
Status Attainment and Status Maintenance: A Study of Stratification in Old Age
While sociologists have been interested in the stratification process at ages when members of a cohort experience many changes, attention has been focused most on the beginnings of the socioeconomic career. Though many changes also occur later in life, relatively little attention has been given to them. In this paper, the effect of aging on the relation of status variables to income is analyzed through a comparison of status attainment models for…
Delayed Career Entry, Industrial Pension Structure, and Early Retirement in a Cohort of Unmarried Women
The effects of early family and work patterns and industrial pension structures on the timing of retirement among unmarried women are examined within a life course perspective. The retirement process is viewed in a longitudinal framework with similar combinations of factors influencing successive stages of final withdrawal from work. Logistic regression techniques are applied to data from a panel of unmarried women workers of retirement age to pr…
Race Differences in Criminal Sentencing
Race differences in criminal court sentencing outcomes have been of long–standing interest to sociologists. The findings about this topic are conflicting. Among the several explanations offered for the contradictory findings are that studies used old data, emphasized capital offenses, and lacked proper controls and statistical procedures. We present an analysis which corrects some of the problems of earlier studies. Race differences in sentencing…
The influence of socio-economic and health differences on parents' provision of help to adult children: A British–United States comparison
Transfers of assistance from older to younger family members are an important, though often ignored, component of intergenerational exchanges. The ability to help younger family members, either financially or practically, may be influenced by the health and socio-economic status of older parents, but very little is known about these patterns. This article examines the effects of socio-economic and health status on the help that late mid-life pare…
Net Worth as an Aspect of Status
While sociologists have recognized the importance of wealth for analysis of political power, they have given little attention to wealth as a measure of economic status. Yet from both a sociological and an economic point of view, wealth is an important determinant of status and life chances, especially at the end of the life cycle. In this paper we discuss the role of net worth as a component of status, and, using data from the National Longitudin…
Race differences in middle class lifestyle: The role of home ownership
Family structure and the reproduction of inequality: Parents' contribution to children's college costs
Parental Money Help to Children and Stepchildren
Divorce and remarriage have reshaped the American family giving rise to questions about the place of stepchildren in remarried families. In this article, we examine money transfers from a couple to each of their children. We introduce characteristics of the family and estimate the role of shared family membership affecting all children in the family as well as the difference that stepchild status and other individual characteristics make in trans…
Differences by Race in the Decline of Health Over Time
Previous research on race differences in health, we believe, has failed to take into account the initial state of health of the respondents. Other research has demonstrated that elders in poor health are more likely to experience a change in their health over time. It is unclear if the greater probability of decline in health observed among African Americans is a result of being more likely to begin such observations in health states that are wor…
Pretrial Release and Bail Decisions: The Effects of Legal, Community, and Personal Variables
This study examines the relative effects of a number of legal and extralegal factors on (1) the decision to release on recognizance and (2) the decision on amount of money bail. Social science research on these issues has been sparse compared to that on other phases of the criminal justice process. Findings from a regression analysis show that the first step of the bond disposition process, the recognizance decision, is influenced by several fact…
The Social Context of Race Differentials in Juvenile Justice Dispositions
Proponents of traditional conflict theory have argued that minority races receive harsher justice system dispositions because they lack the power and resources to ensure equal treatment. Hawkins' (1987) proposed revision of this model predicts minoritv races will receive harsher dispositions in social contexts in which their power threatens the dominant group's hegemony.This study uses juvenile justice processing data from the 32 Florida SMA coun…
The Role of Probation Officers in Determining Gender Differences in Sentencing Severity
This study examines the relationship between gender and sentencing severity in the criminal justice system. Analysis focuses (1) on the extent to which gender influences sentencing and (2) on the part played by probation officers' presentence investigations in accounting for these differences. We find males are more likely than females to receive harsh sentences. The gender effect is diminished, but not ellmnished, in multivariate analyses, when …
Status Claims and Status Attainment: The Determinants of Financial Well-Being
This paper examines the dimensionality of status measures related to net worth and occupation. The measures of status considered include: home equity, savings, real estate assets, business assets, earnings, and pension coverage. We consider the role of each in status evaluations and examine empirically whether the process of attainment of each is the same. We reject this hypothesis and present a final model that allows a different process of atta…
Uniformity and Diversity: Life Course Institutionalization and Late-Life Work Exit
Recent research and theory argue that regulation of the life course, whether by state regulation, workplace dynamics, or economic and social trends, makes the life course more institutionally-dependent and uniform in timing. This article develops a more precise conceptualization of uniformity of life course transitions, distinguishing two facets: universality in event occurrence and variability in event timing. This distinction is unclear in many…
Cohort Differences in Parental Financial Help to Adult Children
In this article, we examine birth cohort differences in parents’ provision of monetary help to adult children with particular focus on the extent to which cohort differences in family structure and the transition to adulthood influence these changes. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study from 1994 to 2010, we compare financial help to children of three respondent cohorts as the parents in these birth cohorts from ages 53–58 to 57–62. We…
Socioeconomic Differences in Having Living Parents and Children: A U.S.‐British Comparison of Middle‐Aged Women
This article examines the relationship between socioeconomic status and having living children and parents among 55‐ to 63‐year‐old women in the United States and Britain. The goals are to quantify the outcomes of slightly different demographic regimes on close kin networks and to assess the potential implications of policies that in both countries increasingly emphasize family responsibility. In the cohorts examined, U.S. respondents are substan…
Why Do Families Differ? Children's Care for an Unmarried Mother
An adult child's provision of care to an unmarried elderly mother varies both within and between families. Within-family differences address the variation in different children's behavior within in a family. Between-family differences refer to the propensities that members of a family-the children of one mother-share and that differentiate them from other families. Previous research suggests five hypotheses affecting either within-family or betwe…
Lifetime Marital History and Mortality After Age 50
Research on marital status and health should consider marital history as well as current status. Two topics are particularly important: examining the relationship in different cohorts and disentangling the potentially causal role of health behaviors such as smoking
Cohort Differences in Men's Late-Life Labor Force Participation
This article uses the 1964 to 1992 March Current Population Survey data to examine cohort differences in men's late-life labor force participation for the 1895-1934 birth cohorts. Results using an age-period-cohort model indicate that a substantial portion of cohort differences may be attributed to changing levels of social security benefits, the proportion of workers receiving disability benefits, and the unemployment rate. The results also indi…
Joint Role Investments and Synchronization of Retirement: A Sequential Approach to Couples' Retirement Timing
Journal Article Joint Role Investments and Synchronization of Retirement: A Sequential Approach to Couples' Retirement Timing Get access John C. Henretta, John C. Henretta University of Florida Direct correspondence to John C. Henretta, Department of Sociology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Angela M. O'Rand, Angela M. O'Rand Duke University Search for other w…
Childhood Circumstances and Mid-Life Functional Mobility
Early life circumstances play substantial direct and indirect roles in molding functional level in late mid-life
Status Attainment and Status Maintenance: A Study of Stratification in Old Age
While sociologists have been interested in the stratification process at ages when members of a cohort experience many changes, attention has been focused most on the beginnings of the socioeconomic career. Though many changes also occur later in life, relatively little attention has been given to them. In this paper, the effect of aging on the relation of status variables to income is analyzed through a comparison of status attainment models for…
Net Worth as an Aspect of Status
While sociologists have recognized the importance of wealth for analysis of political power, they have given little attention to wealth as a measure of economic status. Yet from both a sociological and an economic point of view, wealth is an important determinant of status and life chances, especially at the end of the life cycle. In this paper we discuss the role of net worth as a component of status, and, using data from the National Longitudin…
Race differences in middle class lifestyle: The role of home ownership
Pretrial Release and Bail Decisions: The Effects of Legal, Community, and Personal Variables
This study examines the relative effects of a number of legal and extralegal factors on (1) the decision to release on recognizance and (2) the decision on amount of money bail. Social science research on these issues has been sparse compared to that on other phases of the criminal justice process. Findings from a regression analysis show that the first step of the bond disposition process, the recognizance decision, is influenced by several fact…
Race Differences in Criminal Sentencing
Race differences in criminal court sentencing outcomes have been of long–standing interest to sociologists. The findings about this topic are conflicting. Among the several explanations offered for the contradictory findings are that studies used old data, emphasized capital offenses, and lacked proper controls and statistical procedures. We present an analysis which corrects some of the problems of earlier studies. Race differences in sentencing…
Status Claims and Status Attainment: The Determinants of Financial Well-Being
This paper examines the dimensionality of status measures related to net worth and occupation. The measures of status considered include: home equity, savings, real estate assets, business assets, earnings, and pension coverage. We consider the role of each in status evaluations and examine empirically whether the process of attainment of each is the same. We reject this hypothesis and present a final model that allows a different process of atta…
Wealth and Poverty
Women at Middle Age: Developmental Transitions
The shapes of women's lives have changed over the twentieth century as a result of declining fertility, extended longevity, new life-styles in marriage and family formation, and increased attachment to the labor force. Midlife role transitions for women are diverse and dependent upon earlier life events related to marriage, child bearing, and work. Trends such as the postponement of marriage and child bearing, divorce and separation, and early ca…
Delayed Career Entry, Industrial Pension Structure, and Early Retirement in a Cohort of Unmarried Women
The effects of early family and work patterns and industrial pension structures on the timing of retirement among unmarried women are examined within a life course perspective. The retirement process is viewed in a longitudinal framework with similar combinations of factors influencing successive stages of final withdrawal from work. Logistic regression techniques are applied to data from a panel of unmarried women workers of retirement age to pr…
Joint Retirement in the Dual Worker Family
The large increase in labor force participation rates of older women has raised questions regarding the joint timing of retirement among older working couples. We define three patterns of family retirement: joint retirement in which both spouses retire at the same time; substitute retirement, a pattern in which the wife works after the husband; and secondary retirement, a pattern in which the husband works longer than the wife. Using data from th…
The Role of Probation Officers in Determining Gender Differences in Sentencing Severity
This study examines the relationship between gender and sentencing severity in the criminal justice system. Analysis focuses (1) on the extent to which gender influences sentencing and (2) on the part played by probation officers' presentence investigations in accounting for these differences. We find males are more likely than females to receive harsh sentences. The gender effect is diminished, but not ellmnished, in multivariate analyses, when …
Parental Status and Child's Home Ownership
This paper explores the relation of parents' status to their children's home ownership. Home ownership by parents increases the probability of a child's home ownership. Parents' income is positively associated with the value of children's homes among owners, though it has no effect on probability of ownership. The effect of parents' income on home value is mediated by the level of gifts among black households and by parents' home value among whit…
Aging from Birth to Death, Volume 2: Sociotemporal Perspectives
Research Instruments in Social Gerontology: Social Roles and Social Participation, Volume 2
The Effect of Prior Case Outcomes on Juvenile Justice Decision-Making
Journal Article The Effect of Prior Case Outcomes on Juvenile Justice Decision-Making Get access John C. Henretta, John C. Henretta University of Florida Address correspondence to John C. Henretta, Department of Sociology, 3115 Turlington Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles E. Frazier, Charles E. Frazier University of Florida Search for other works by…
Family Transitions, Housing Market Context, and First Home Purchase by Young Married Households
Journal Article Family Transitions, Housing Market Context, and First Home Purchase by Young Married Households Get access John C. Henretta John C. Henretta University of Florida Address correspondence to the author, Sociology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 66, Issue 2, December 1987, Pages 520–536, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/…
America's Older Population
On Time and Method
Bridges to Retirement: Older Workers in a Changing Labor Market
Workers Versus Pensioners: Intergenerational Justice in an Ageing World
This is a collection of essays resulting from a conference on demographic aging and intergenerational transfers held in Cambridge England in July 1988. first section of the book presents a broad interpretation of intergenerational conflict from the distinct perspectives of demography economics philosophy and social policy. The second section examines in detail the growing economic conflict between workers and pensioners embodied in public and pri…
The Social Context of Race Differentials in Juvenile Justice Dispositions
Proponents of traditional conflict theory have argued that minority races receive harsher justice system dispositions because they lack the power and resources to ensure equal treatment. Hawkins' (1987) proposed revision of this model predicts minoritv races will receive harsher dispositions in social contexts in which their power threatens the dominant group's hegemony.This study uses juvenile justice processing data from the 32 Florida SMA coun…
Uniformity and Diversity: Life Course Institutionalization and Late-Life Work Exit
Recent research and theory argue that regulation of the life course, whether by state regulation, workplace dynamics, or economic and social trends, makes the life course more institutionally-dependent and uniform in timing. This article develops a more precise conceptualization of uniformity of life course transitions, distinguishing two facets: universality in event occurrence and variability in event timing. This distinction is unclear in many…
Joint Role Investments and Synchronization of Retirement: A Sequential Approach to Couples' Retirement Timing
Journal Article Joint Role Investments and Synchronization of Retirement: A Sequential Approach to Couples' Retirement Timing Get access John C. Henretta, John C. Henretta University of Florida Direct correspondence to John C. Henretta, Department of Sociology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Angela M. O'Rand, Angela M. O'Rand Duke University Search for other w…
Cohort Differences in Men's Late-Life Labor Force Participation
This article uses the 1964 to 1992 March Current Population Survey data to examine cohort differences in men's late-life labor force participation for the 1895-1934 birth cohorts. Results using an age-period-cohort model indicate that a substantial portion of cohort differences may be attributed to changing levels of social security benefits, the proportion of workers receiving disability benefits, and the unemployment rate. The results also indi…
Changing Perspectives on Retirement
I the past several years, retirement research has given increasing attention to the complexity of the work-toretirement transition. The article by Mutchler et al. (1997) elsewhere in this issue illustrates the trend with its analytic focus on differentiating between crisp one-step movements from work to retirement and blurred transitions involving complex patterns such as returns to employment and second retirements. This literature's general arg…
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