K A Goyette
Biographic Data
| ID | 65565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K A Goyette |
| GIVEN NAMES | K A |
| FAMILY NAME | Goyette |
| SIGNATURE | GOYETTE K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7429-5321 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 732 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The “Model Minority” from Education to the Workplace
In June 2023, the US Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action in university admissions—a decision largely due to allegations that elite universities had engaged in racial discrimination against Asian American applicants. Central to both sides of the affirmative action debate was the recognition that stereotypes of Asian Americans as “model minorities” in the classroom played a role in college admissions. While much attention has fo…
Paying for the Prestige
Much research has focused on the relative success of Asian Americans in U.S. higher education, particularly their high rates of enrollment and graduation compared to White Americans. In this research, we investigate one factor that may influence these outcomes: whether Asian American families invest more financially in their children's college education. Using data from the 2015-2016 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, we find that Asian Am…
Presumed Competent
Presumed competent, Asian Americans exhibit the highest level of education and median household income of all major US ethnoracial groups. On average, they outpace all groups in the domain of education, yet they do not maintain their advantage in the labor market. The question of bias against Asian Americans has taken center stage in the most recent US Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action, but the attention has been on university admissions…
When Extracurricular Activities Become “Problems”
Aiming high
Less privileged students disproportionately aim low with their university applications and often fail to apply to the institutions that match their academic qualifications. Little attention, however, has been directed toward the converse phenomenon, that of aiming high. These kinds of applications are commonly called ‘reaches,’ meaning an applicant’s credentials fall slightly below the institution’s range for the average first-year student. Using…
Advancing the Sociology of Education
Moving for the Kids
White households with children are the least likely of all household types to live in integrated neighborhoods, yet few researchers have questioned whether children themselves influence residential decision–making. Children may affect both residential preferences and constraints and in turn, household mobility decisions that shape patterns of segregation and integration. Following a cohort of household heads in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics,…
This School's Gone Downhill
Racial segregation in schools and neighborhoods in the United States is stark and persistent. The results of this research provide clues as to why it may be so enduring. We find that as predominantly white schools in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area experience increases in black representation of up to seven percentage points during a four- to five-year period, white neighborhood residents are more likely to perceive that the quality of their s…
Racial and ethnic residential segregation and household structure
College for some to college for all
Who Studies the Arts and Sciences? Social Background and the Choice and Consequences of Undergraduate Field of Study
Curricula in U.S. colleges and universities have historically evolved around two ideal types: arts and science fields (A&S), and vocational fields. Using the National Educational Longitudinal Study, 1992–1994, we find that high socioeconomic status (SES) students are more likely to choose A&S fields than are low-SES students. The Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study, 1993–1997, shows that vocational majors are employed at higher paying job…
Economic potential and entry into marriage and cohabitation
This article explores the relationship between economic potential and rates of entry into marriage and cohabitation. Using data from the 1990 census and the 1980–1992 High School and Beyond (Sophomore Cohort), we developed a method for explicitly estimating five time-varying measures of earnings potential. The analyses of union formation are based on an intergenerational panel study of parents and children, to which our measures of earnings poten…
Who Goes to Graduate School? Social and Academic Correlates of Educational Continuation after College
Although sociologists have found direct links between parents' education and the high school and college educational attainments of their offspring, researchers have been surprised to find no parental effects on educational enrollments beyond college. Postgraduate matriculation appears to result from academic success in college, divorced from parents' educational capital. Using new data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study, the au…
Social mobility and the educational choices of Asian Americans
In Service and Servitude
The contemporary institution of live-in domestic service that is increasingly characterized by foreign female domestic workers' (FFDWs) labour has become as important as transnational capital and markets to the Malaysian state's modernity project of building a developed society by the year 2020. The conceptual framework of this dissertation integrates analyses of the in-migration of FFDWs and the consequent political, economic, social, and normat…
Growing Up American
Educational Expectations of Asian American Youths
The study presented here explored three factors that may explain why distinct Asian American groups have higher educational expectations than do whites : favorable socioeconomic and background characteristics, demonstrated academic ability, and parents' high expectations. With data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study, the authors used linear and logistic multivariate regression models to examine these differences in educational expec…
The Racial Identification of Biracial Children with One Asian Parent
This article examines the socioeconomic and demographic correlates that are associated with whether biracial children with an Asian parent are racially identified with their Asian parent or with their non-Asian parent. With data extracted from the 5-percent Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) of the 1990 census, we take into account explanatory variables at three levels: the child's characteristics, the parents' characteristics, and the locale's r…
The Racial Identification of Biracial Children with One Asian Parent
This article examines the socioeconomic and demographic correlates that are associated with whether biracial children with an Asian parent are racially identified with their Asian parent or with their non-Asian parent. With data extracted from the 5-percent Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) of the 1990 census, we take into account explanatory variables at three levels: the child's characteristics, the parents' characteristics, and the locale's r…
Economic potential and entry into marriage and cohabitation
This article explores the relationship between economic potential and rates of entry into marriage and cohabitation. Using data from the 1990 census and the 1980–1992 High School and Beyond (Sophomore Cohort), we developed a method for explicitly estimating five time-varying measures of earnings potential. The analyses of union formation are based on an intergenerational panel study of parents and children, to which our measures of earnings poten…
Educational Expectations of Asian American Youths
The study presented here explored three factors that may explain why distinct Asian American groups have higher educational expectations than do whites : favorable socioeconomic and background characteristics, demonstrated academic ability, and parents' high expectations. With data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study, the authors used linear and logistic multivariate regression models to examine these differences in educational expec…
College for some to college for all
Who Goes to Graduate School? Social and Academic Correlates of Educational Continuation after College
Although sociologists have found direct links between parents' education and the high school and college educational attainments of their offspring, researchers have been surprised to find no parental effects on educational enrollments beyond college. Postgraduate matriculation appears to result from academic success in college, divorced from parents' educational capital. Using new data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study, the au…
Social mobility and the educational choices of Asian Americans
This School's Gone Downhill
Racial segregation in schools and neighborhoods in the United States is stark and persistent. The results of this research provide clues as to why it may be so enduring. We find that as predominantly white schools in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area experience increases in black representation of up to seven percentage points during a four- to five-year period, white neighborhood residents are more likely to perceive that the quality of their s…
Moving for the Kids
White households with children are the least likely of all household types to live in integrated neighborhoods, yet few researchers have questioned whether children themselves influence residential decision–making. Children may affect both residential preferences and constraints and in turn, household mobility decisions that shape patterns of segregation and integration. Following a cohort of household heads in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics,…
Who Studies the Arts and Sciences? Social Background and the Choice and Consequences of Undergraduate Field of Study
Curricula in U.S. colleges and universities have historically evolved around two ideal types: arts and science fields (A&S), and vocational fields. Using the National Educational Longitudinal Study, 1992–1994, we find that high socioeconomic status (SES) students are more likely to choose A&S fields than are low-SES students. The Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study, 1993–1997, shows that vocational majors are employed at higher paying job…
Racial and ethnic residential segregation and household structure
Presumed Competent
Presumed competent, Asian Americans exhibit the highest level of education and median household income of all major US ethnoracial groups. On average, they outpace all groups in the domain of education, yet they do not maintain their advantage in the labor market. The question of bias against Asian Americans has taken center stage in the most recent US Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action, but the attention has been on university admissions…
Aiming high
Less privileged students disproportionately aim low with their university applications and often fail to apply to the institutions that match their academic qualifications. Little attention, however, has been directed toward the converse phenomenon, that of aiming high. These kinds of applications are commonly called ‘reaches,’ meaning an applicant’s credentials fall slightly below the institution’s range for the average first-year student. Using…
Paying for the Prestige
Much research has focused on the relative success of Asian Americans in U.S. higher education, particularly their high rates of enrollment and graduation compared to White Americans. In this research, we investigate one factor that may influence these outcomes: whether Asian American families invest more financially in their children's college education. Using data from the 2015-2016 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, we find that Asian Am…
The Racial Identification of Biracial Children with One Asian Parent
This article examines the socioeconomic and demographic correlates that are associated with whether biracial children with an Asian parent are racially identified with their Asian parent or with their non-Asian parent. With data extracted from the 5-percent Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) of the 1990 census, we take into account explanatory variables at three levels: the child's characteristics, the parents' characteristics, and the locale's r…
In Service and Servitude
The contemporary institution of live-in domestic service that is increasingly characterized by foreign female domestic workers' (FFDWs) labour has become as important as transnational capital and markets to the Malaysian state's modernity project of building a developed society by the year 2020. The conceptual framework of this dissertation integrates analyses of the in-migration of FFDWs and the consequent political, economic, social, and normat…
Growing Up American
Educational Expectations of Asian American Youths
The study presented here explored three factors that may explain why distinct Asian American groups have higher educational expectations than do whites : favorable socioeconomic and background characteristics, demonstrated academic ability, and parents' high expectations. With data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study, the authors used linear and logistic multivariate regression models to examine these differences in educational expec…
Economic potential and entry into marriage and cohabitation
This article explores the relationship between economic potential and rates of entry into marriage and cohabitation. Using data from the 1990 census and the 1980–1992 High School and Beyond (Sophomore Cohort), we developed a method for explicitly estimating five time-varying measures of earnings potential. The analyses of union formation are based on an intergenerational panel study of parents and children, to which our measures of earnings poten…
Who Goes to Graduate School? Social and Academic Correlates of Educational Continuation after College
Although sociologists have found direct links between parents' education and the high school and college educational attainments of their offspring, researchers have been surprised to find no parental effects on educational enrollments beyond college. Postgraduate matriculation appears to result from academic success in college, divorced from parents' educational capital. Using new data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study, the au…
Social mobility and the educational choices of Asian Americans
Who Studies the Arts and Sciences? Social Background and the Choice and Consequences of Undergraduate Field of Study
Curricula in U.S. colleges and universities have historically evolved around two ideal types: arts and science fields (A&S), and vocational fields. Using the National Educational Longitudinal Study, 1992–1994, we find that high socioeconomic status (SES) students are more likely to choose A&S fields than are low-SES students. The Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study, 1993–1997, shows that vocational majors are employed at higher paying job…
College for some to college for all
Racial and ethnic residential segregation and household structure
This School's Gone Downhill
Racial segregation in schools and neighborhoods in the United States is stark and persistent. The results of this research provide clues as to why it may be so enduring. We find that as predominantly white schools in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area experience increases in black representation of up to seven percentage points during a four- to five-year period, white neighborhood residents are more likely to perceive that the quality of their s…
Moving for the Kids
White households with children are the least likely of all household types to live in integrated neighborhoods, yet few researchers have questioned whether children themselves influence residential decision–making. Children may affect both residential preferences and constraints and in turn, household mobility decisions that shape patterns of segregation and integration. Following a cohort of household heads in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics,…
Aiming high
Less privileged students disproportionately aim low with their university applications and often fail to apply to the institutions that match their academic qualifications. Little attention, however, has been directed toward the converse phenomenon, that of aiming high. These kinds of applications are commonly called ‘reaches,’ meaning an applicant’s credentials fall slightly below the institution’s range for the average first-year student. Using…
Advancing the Sociology of Education
When Extracurricular Activities Become “Problems”
Paying for the Prestige
Much research has focused on the relative success of Asian Americans in U.S. higher education, particularly their high rates of enrollment and graduation compared to White Americans. In this research, we investigate one factor that may influence these outcomes: whether Asian American families invest more financially in their children's college education. Using data from the 2015-2016 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, we find that Asian Am…
Presumed Competent
Presumed competent, Asian Americans exhibit the highest level of education and median household income of all major US ethnoracial groups. On average, they outpace all groups in the domain of education, yet they do not maintain their advantage in the labor market. The question of bias against Asian Americans has taken center stage in the most recent US Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action, but the attention has been on university admissions…
The “Model Minority” from Education to the Workplace
In June 2023, the US Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action in university admissions—a decision largely due to allegations that elite universities had engaged in racial discrimination against Asian American applicants. Central to both sides of the affirmative action debate was the recognition that stereotypes of Asian Americans as “model minorities” in the classroom played a role in college admissions. While much attention has fo…
Sociology (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Demography (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (6 works) · Population (6 works)