Audrey Light
Biographic Data
| ID | 6044803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Audrey Light |
| GIVEN NAMES | Audrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Light |
| SIGNATURE | LIGHT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-2201-0149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Explaining the Gap in Upward Transfer Rates Between Economically Advantaged and Disadvantaged Community College Students
Using administrative data, we estimate models of community college students’ upward transfer decisions and compute each covariate’s contribution to the gap in transfer rates between economically advantaged and disadvantaged students and, alternatively, between white and Black students. We find that college entry age, completed credits, and enrollment duration account for over 50% of the economically advantaged–disadvantaged gap and 92% of the rac…
Should English majors take computer science courses? Labor market benefits of the occupational specificity of major and nonmajor college credits
Determinants of Long-Term Unions
Divorce as risky behavior
Given that divorce often represents a high-stakes income gamble, we ask how individual levels of risk tolerance affect the decision to divorce. We extend the orthodox divorce model by assuming that individuals are risk averse, that marriage is risky, and that divorce is even riskier. The model predicts that conditional on the expected gains to marriage and divorce, the probability of divorce increases with relative risk tolerance because risk ave…
Identifying race and ethnicity in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Gender differences in the marriage and cohabitation income premium
Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I identify causal effects of marriage and cohabitation on total family income. My goals are to compare men’s and women’s changes in financial status upon entering unions and to assess the relative contributions of adjustments in own income, income pooling, and changes in family size. Changes in own income that are due to intrahousehold specialization prove to be minor for both men an…
From Bakke to Hopwood
In light of recent, state-level actions banning racial preference in college admissions decisions, we investigate how whites and minorities differ in their college-going behavior. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we estimate a sequential model of college attendance and graduation decisions that allows correlations among the errors. Our estimates reveal that minorities are more likely than observationally equivalent white…
Job Change Patterns and the Wages of Young Men
This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to distinguish empirically between mover—stayer, “search good,” and “experience good” models of job mobility. We estimate wage models in which the pattern of overall job mobility affects both the level and tenure slope of the log-wage path. After controlling for the correlation between mobility patterns and time-constant person- and job-specific unobservables, we find that worker…
Gender differences in the marriage and cohabitation income premium
Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I identify causal effects of marriage and cohabitation on total family income. My goals are to compare men’s and women’s changes in financial status upon entering unions and to assess the relative contributions of adjustments in own income, income pooling, and changes in family size. Changes in own income that are due to intrahousehold specialization prove to be minor for both men an…
Divorce as risky behavior
Given that divorce often represents a high-stakes income gamble, we ask how individual levels of risk tolerance affect the decision to divorce. We extend the orthodox divorce model by assuming that individuals are risk averse, that marriage is risky, and that divorce is even riskier. The model predicts that conditional on the expected gains to marriage and divorce, the probability of divorce increases with relative risk tolerance because risk ave…
Identifying race and ethnicity in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Determinants of Long-Term Unions
Job Change Patterns and the Wages of Young Men
This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to distinguish empirically between mover—stayer, “search good,” and “experience good” models of job mobility. We estimate wage models in which the pattern of overall job mobility affects both the level and tenure slope of the log-wage path. After controlling for the correlation between mobility patterns and time-constant person- and job-specific unobservables, we find that worker…
From Bakke to Hopwood
In light of recent, state-level actions banning racial preference in college admissions decisions, we investigate how whites and minorities differ in their college-going behavior. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we estimate a sequential model of college attendance and graduation decisions that allows correlations among the errors. Our estimates reveal that minorities are more likely than observationally equivalent white…
Gender differences in the marriage and cohabitation income premium
Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I identify causal effects of marriage and cohabitation on total family income. My goals are to compare men’s and women’s changes in financial status upon entering unions and to assess the relative contributions of adjustments in own income, income pooling, and changes in family size. Changes in own income that are due to intrahousehold specialization prove to be minor for both men an…
Identifying race and ethnicity in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Divorce as risky behavior
Given that divorce often represents a high-stakes income gamble, we ask how individual levels of risk tolerance affect the decision to divorce. We extend the orthodox divorce model by assuming that individuals are risk averse, that marriage is risky, and that divorce is even riskier. The model predicts that conditional on the expected gains to marriage and divorce, the probability of divorce increases with relative risk tolerance because risk ave…
Determinants of Long-Term Unions
Should English majors take computer science courses? Labor market benefits of the occupational specificity of major and nonmajor college credits
Explaining the Gap in Upward Transfer Rates Between Economically Advantaged and Disadvantaged Community College Students
Using administrative data, we estimate models of community college students’ upward transfer decisions and compute each covariate’s contribution to the gap in transfer rates between economically advantaged and disadvantaged students and, alternatively, between white and Black students. We find that college entry age, completed credits, and enrollment duration account for over 50% of the economically advantaged–disadvantaged gap and 92% of the rac…
Economics (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Demography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (3 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works)