Jay Teachman
Biographic Data
| ID | 78276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jay Teachman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jay |
| FAMILY NAME | Teachman |
| SIGNATURE | TEACHMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 442 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Blended Families
The term “blended family” can be used to describe any nontraditional family household, such as stepfamilies, families with adoptive children, and families that use an alternative form of pregnancy. Although it is not an easy task, several national surveys and the US Census gather data on blended families to compare trends across time. Since the turn of the twenty‐first century, the number of stepfamilies (the most common type of blended family) i…
Body Weight, Marital Status, and Changes in Marital Status
In this article, I use 20 years of data taken from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth to examine the relationship between body weight and both marital status and changes in marital status. I use a latent growth curve model that allows both fixed and random effects. The results show that living without a partner, either being divorced or never married, is associated with lower body weight. Cohabitors and married respondents tend to weig…
Altering the life course: Military service and contact with the criminal justice system
The Relationship between Military Service and Childbearing for Men and Women
Using data taken from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY-97), we examine the relationship between military service and childbearing for both men and women. Using a fixed-effects procedure on longitudinal data, we find that military service reduces the fertility of male and female recruits. The negative effect of military service is much larger for women than for men. In addition, the negative effects of military service on child…
Military Service and Alcohol Use in the United States
It is well known that enlistees and veterans in the United States are more likely to use alcohol than civilians. However, most of this research is potentially biased in that it often does not employ control variables (other than age) and is based on cross-sectional data. Much of this research also fails to consider the relationship between military service and alcohol use among women. Using longitudinal data taken from the 1997 National Longitudi…
Delinquent behavior, the transition to adulthood, and the likelihood of military enlistment
Veteran Status and Body Weight: A Longitudinal Fixed-Effects Approach
A Note on Disappearing Veterans
In this research note, the rapid decline of the veteran population in the United States from 1980 to 2010 is outlined. The decline in the veteran population has been accompanied by an increasing concentration of veterans in smaller, more rural counties, often surrounding military bases. The result is that there has been a consistent increase in the residential segregation of veterans from the nonveteran population
Health Limitations and Post-Secondary School Enrollment
Modeling Repeatable Events Using Discrete-Time Data: Predicting Marital Dissolution
I join two methodologies by illustrating the application of multilevel modeling principles to hazard-rate models with an emphasis on procedures for discrete-time data that contain repeatable events. I demonstrate this application using data taken from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to ascertain the relationship between multiple covariates and risk of subsequent marital dissolution. I consider both fixed- and random-effects versi…
Non-combat military service in the United States and its effects on depressive symptoms among men
Are veterans healthier? Military service and health at age 40 in the all-volunteer era
Work‐Related Health Limitations, Education, and the Risk of Marital Disruption
Despite progress in identifying the covariates of divorce, there remain substantial gaps in the knowledge. One of these gaps is the relationship between health and risk of marital dissolution. I extend prior research by examining the linkages between work‐related health limitations and divorce using 25 years of data ( N = 7919) taken from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY‐79). I found that work‐related health limitations among h…
Family Life Course Statuses and Transitions: Relationships with Health Limitations
In this study, the author uses 25 years of data taken from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth to examine the relationship between family life course statuses and transitions and work-related health limitations. The author uses a detailed set of statuses and transitions that include marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and parenthood. The measures of health used tap health limitations in the kind and amount of work that can be performed. Us…
Wives' Economic Resources and Risk of Divorce
Using longitudinal data covering 25 years from 1979 to 2004, the author examines the relationship between wives' economic resources and the risk of marital dissolution. The author considers the effects of labor force participation, income, and relative income while accounting for potential endogeneity of wives' economic resources. The extent to which wives' economic resources are differentially related to marital disruption for Whites and Blacks …
Active-duty military service, cohabiting unions, and the transition to marriage
A small but growing body of research has begun to identify the consequences of military service during the all-voluntary era. In this article, we examine the relationship between military service and the likelihood that cohabiting unions will be conver
Military Service, Race, and the Transition to Marriage and Cohabitation
Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth, the author investigates the relationship between military service and the transition to the first intimate union. The author argues that active-duty military service promotes marriage over cohabitation. The results are consistent with this argument, showing that active-duty members of the military are much more likely to choose marriage over cohabitation compared to reserve-duty servi…
Complex Life Course Patterns and the Risk of Divorce in Second Marriages
In this article, I use data on women (N= 655) from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth to examine the correlates of second marital dissolution. I update the limited number of previous studies on this topic by focusing on the relationships between divorce and the complex life course patterns that characterize respondents in second marriages. I pay particular attention to the roles played by stepchildren and cohabitation. I find that women wh…
Race, military service, and marital timing: Evidence from the NLSY-79
I use data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth to examine the relationship between military service and marital timing for white men and black men during the 1980s. I use information about active-duty and reserve-duty service as well as veteran status to implement strong controls for selectivity. I find that active-duty military service increases the probability of first marriage for both whites and blacks. In part, this relationsh…
Military Service and Educational Attainment in the All-Volunteer Era
This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the relationship between service in the All Volunteer Force (AVF) military and educational attainment. Through the use of fixed-effects estimators, the author generated estimates of the effect of military service on the highest grade of school completed by men that are purged of the confounding effects of constant unmeasured household-specific and person-specific var…
Joining up: Did military service in the early all volunteer era affect subsequent civilian income
Military Service in the Vietnam Era and Educational Attainment
Using longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Study of Young Men for 1966-81, this study examined the effect of military service on the highest grade of schooling completed. Fixed-effects estimators were used to generate estimates of the effect of military service on the schooling trajectories of veterans and nonveterans that are independent of unmeasured household-specific and person-specific factors that may bias the relationship. The …
Do Residential Conditions Explain the Relationship Between Living Arrangements and Adolescent Behavior
Persistent effects of childhood living arrangements and family change on adolescent outcomes have often been attributed to differences in socialization and intrafamily processes. We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to assess an alternative explanation: that neighborhood context and residential mobility represent a central set of mechanisms through which family structure affects adolescent risk behavior. Our results indicate that t…
Wages, earnings, and occupational status: Did World War II veterans receive a premium
Childhood Living Arrangements and the Formation of Coresidential Unions
The relationship between multiple dimensions of childhood living arrangements and the formation of subsequent unions is investigated. Using the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, both statuses and transitions associated with childhood living arrangements at three different stages of childhood are considered. It was found that both statuses and transitions, but not the ages at which they occur, are related to the risk of union formation. Women…
Premarital Sex, Premarital Cohabitation, and the Risk of Subsequent Marital Dissolution Among Women
Using nationally representative data from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, I estimate the association between intimate premarital relationships (premarital sex and premarital cohabitation) and subsequent marital dissolution. I extend previous research by considering relationship histories pertaining to both premarital sex and premarital cohabitation. I find that premarital sex or premarital cohabitation that is limited to a woman's husb…
Multilevel Models in Family Research: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues
Examining the impact of context on individual-level outcomes has become an increasingly common undertaking in the social sciences. The growth in concern for identifying the effects of macrolevel characteristics has generated both theoretical and methodological advancements. In this issue of Journal of Marriage and Family, Butler (2002) researches whether the effect of welfare benefit levels on premarital childbearing varies by context, Hoffmann (…
Childhood Living Arrangements and the Formation of Coresidential Unions
The relationship between multiple dimensions of childhood living arrangements and the formation of subsequent unions is investigated. Using the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, both statuses and transitions associated with childhood living arrangements at three different stages of childhood are considered. It was found that both statuses and transitions, but not the ages at which they occur, are related to the risk of union formation. Women…
Wives' Economic Resources and Risk of Divorce
Using longitudinal data covering 25 years from 1979 to 2004, the author examines the relationship between wives' economic resources and the risk of marital dissolution. The author considers the effects of labor force participation, income, and relative income while accounting for potential endogeneity of wives' economic resources. The extent to which wives' economic resources are differentially related to marital disruption for Whites and Blacks …
Complex Life Course Patterns and the Risk of Divorce in Second Marriages
In this article, I use data on women (N= 655) from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth to examine the correlates of second marital dissolution. I update the limited number of previous studies on this topic by focusing on the relationships between divorce and the complex life course patterns that characterize respondents in second marriages. I pay particular attention to the roles played by stepchildren and cohabitation. I find that women wh…
Race, military service, and marital timing: Evidence from the NLSY-79
I use data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth to examine the relationship between military service and marital timing for white men and black men during the 1980s. I use information about active-duty and reserve-duty service as well as veteran status to implement strong controls for selectivity. I find that active-duty military service increases the probability of first marriage for both whites and blacks. In part, this relationsh…
Do Residential Conditions Explain the Relationship Between Living Arrangements and Adolescent Behavior
Persistent effects of childhood living arrangements and family change on adolescent outcomes have often been attributed to differences in socialization and intrafamily processes. We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to assess an alternative explanation: that neighborhood context and residential mobility represent a central set of mechanisms through which family structure affects adolescent risk behavior. Our results indicate that t…
Joining up: Did military service in the early all volunteer era affect subsequent civilian income
Influences on the Duration of Wars, Strikes, Riots, and Family Arguments
Utility theory has been frequently applied in the analyses of the outbreak of war. The present study extends the application of utility theory to conflict duration. The authors consider how the perceived utility of continuing conflict changes while conflicts are under way, and posit that conflicts end when the utility of continuing is less than the utility of surrender. Predictions developed from the theory are tested, using hazard models, on dur…
Wages, earnings, and occupational status: Did World War II veterans receive a premium
Modeling Repeatable Events Using Discrete-Time Data: Predicting Marital Dissolution
I join two methodologies by illustrating the application of multilevel modeling principles to hazard-rate models with an emphasis on procedures for discrete-time data that contain repeatable events. I demonstrate this application using data taken from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to ascertain the relationship between multiple covariates and risk of subsequent marital dissolution. I consider both fixed- and random-effects versi…
Military Service and Educational Attainment in the All-Volunteer Era
This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the relationship between service in the All Volunteer Force (AVF) military and educational attainment. Through the use of fixed-effects estimators, the author generated estimates of the effect of military service on the highest grade of school completed by men that are purged of the confounding effects of constant unmeasured household-specific and person-specific var…
Work‐Related Health Limitations, Education, and the Risk of Marital Disruption
Despite progress in identifying the covariates of divorce, there remain substantial gaps in the knowledge. One of these gaps is the relationship between health and risk of marital dissolution. I extend prior research by examining the linkages between work‐related health limitations and divorce using 25 years of data ( N = 7919) taken from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY‐79). I found that work‐related health limitations among h…
Military Service in the Vietnam Era and Educational Attainment
Using longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Study of Young Men for 1966-81, this study examined the effect of military service on the highest grade of schooling completed. Fixed-effects estimators were used to generate estimates of the effect of military service on the schooling trajectories of veterans and nonveterans that are independent of unmeasured household-specific and person-specific factors that may bias the relationship. The …
Sibling Resemblance in Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes: The Role of Father Presence
Using longitudinal data on sibling pairs from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, we investigate the influence of father presence on behavioral and cognitive outcomes for children. Our results indicate that children who live in one-parent families exhibit more behavioral problems and have lower mathematics and reading ability than children in two-parent families. The differences across time between children in two-parent and one-parent fami…
Body Weight, Marital Status, and Changes in Marital Status
In this article, I use 20 years of data taken from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth to examine the relationship between body weight and both marital status and changes in marital status. I use a latent growth curve model that allows both fixed and random effects. The results show that living without a partner, either being divorced or never married, is associated with lower body weight. Cohabitors and married respondents tend to weig…
Are veterans healthier? Military service and health at age 40 in the all-volunteer era
Military Service, Race, and the Transition to Marriage and Cohabitation
Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth, the author investigates the relationship between military service and the transition to the first intimate union. The author argues that active-duty military service promotes marriage over cohabitation. The results are consistent with this argument, showing that active-duty members of the military are much more likely to choose marriage over cohabitation compared to reserve-duty servi…
Unintended Consequences of Immigration Reform: Discrimination and Hispanic Employment
The record-keeping requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act(IRCA), and fines for illegal employment, may induce employers to discriminate against foreign-appearing workers. The General Accounting Office (GAO) reported widespread IRCA-related discrimination but did not link reported discriminatory practices to discriminatory employment behavior. We analyze the GAO’s random survey and, controlling for selectivity effects, demonstrate …
Families and Hazard Rates That Change over Time: Some Methodological Issues in Analyzing Transitions
Family Life Course Statuses and Transitions: Relationships with Health Limitations
In this study, the author uses 25 years of data taken from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth to examine the relationship between family life course statuses and transitions and work-related health limitations. The author uses a detailed set of statuses and transitions that include marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and parenthood. The measures of health used tap health limitations in the kind and amount of work that can be performed. Us…
Altering the life course: Military service and contact with the criminal justice system
Non-combat military service in the United States and its effects on depressive symptoms among men
Gender of Siblings, Cognitive Achievement, and Academic Performance: Familial and Nonfamilial Influences on Children
Jay Teachman, Gender of Siblings, Cognitive Achievement, and Academic Performance: Familial and Nonfamilial Influences on Children, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1997), pp. 363-374
A Note on Disappearing Veterans
In this research note, the rapid decline of the veteran population in the United States from 1980 to 2010 is outlined. The decline in the veteran population has been accompanied by an increasing concentration of veterans in smaller, more rural counties, often surrounding military bases. The result is that there has been a consistent increase in the residential segregation of veterans from the nonveteran population
The Impact of Family Planning Programs on Fertility Rates. A Case Study of Four Nations
State Power, Sociodemographic Characteristics, and Income Inequality: A Cross-National Analysis
Research on the determinants of the distribution of income among individuals has indicated that several aspects of state power as well as various sociodemographic characteristics have considerable impact. Using cross-national data, this paper finds that external power and political and bureaucratic strength both have significant direct effects on income distributions, acting to make them more equal. Among sociodemographic characteristics, educati…
Perceived Availability of Contraceptives and Family Limitation
This paper deals with the relationship between perceived contraceptive availability/accessibility and contraceptive use and fertility. It is hypothesized that women who perceive contraceptive services to be available and easily accessible will be more likely to use contraception, will have lower levels of unmet demand for contraception, and will experience decreased levels of childbearing. Data from the Korean and Mexican World Fertility Surveys …
The Sexual Bond: Rethinking Families and Close Relationships
The Sexual Bond: Rethinking Families and Close Relationships
Framing the Problem A Fresh Construct Theoretical Dimensions Underlying the Sexually Bonded Primary Relationship Elements Within the Relationship Toward a Model of Developing Sexually Mutual Influences Between the Developing Relationship and Its Developing Environment Influences Among Relationships, Children, and Adults The Impact of Women's Work and Occupational Structure Research Models and Observation Plans Prologue to Research and Application
Interpreting Logistic Regression Results: A Critical Commentary
The Sexual Bond: Rethinking Families and Close Relationships
The Sexual Bond: Rethinking Families and Close Relationships
Families and Hazard Rates That Change over Time: Some Methodological Issues in Analyzing Transitions
Influences on the Duration of Wars, Strikes, Riots, and Family Arguments
Utility theory has been frequently applied in the analyses of the outbreak of war. The present study extends the application of utility theory to conflict duration. The authors consider how the perceived utility of continuing conflict changes while conflicts are under way, and posit that conflicts end when the utility of continuing is less than the utility of surrender. Predictions developed from the theory are tested, using hazard models, on dur…
The Impact of Knowledge on the Survival of American Manufacturing Plants
Recently, a new economic theory of growth (Romer 1986, 1990) that emphasizes the importance of knowledge has been proposed. We extend this argument to manufacturing plants by developing and testing a theory of how investments in knowledge, as expressed in human capital and production technology, affect plant survival. Based on an event-history analyses of 97 manufacturing plants during the period from 1973 to 1987, we show that internal investmen…
Unintended Consequences of Immigration Reform: Discrimination and Hispanic Employment
The record-keeping requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act(IRCA), and fines for illegal employment, may induce employers to discriminate against foreign-appearing workers. The General Accounting Office (GAO) reported widespread IRCA-related discrimination but did not link reported discriminatory practices to discriminatory employment behavior. We analyze the GAO’s random survey and, controlling for selectivity effects, demonstrate …
Gender of Siblings, Cognitive Achievement, and Academic Performance: Familial and Nonfamilial Influences on Children
Jay Teachman, Gender of Siblings, Cognitive Achievement, and Academic Performance: Familial and Nonfamilial Influences on Children, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1997), pp. 363-374
Sibling Resemblance in Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes: The Role of Father Presence
Using longitudinal data on sibling pairs from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, we investigate the influence of father presence on behavioral and cognitive outcomes for children. Our results indicate that children who live in one-parent families exhibit more behavioral problems and have lower mathematics and reading ability than children in two-parent families. The differences across time between children in two-parent and one-parent fami…
Covariance Structure Models for Fixed and Random Effects
Fixed- and random-effects models are often used to control for unmeasured personspecific effects when examining the influence of measured covariates on an outcome. To date, different estimators are used for fixed- and random-effects models, making it difficult to choose between these two alternatives. In this article, the authors outline a covariance-structure model that captures both fixed and random effects and provides a simple test for compar…
Multilevel Models in Family Research: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues
Examining the impact of context on individual-level outcomes has become an increasingly common undertaking in the social sciences. The growth in concern for identifying the effects of macrolevel characteristics has generated both theoretical and methodological advancements. In this issue of Journal of Marriage and Family, Butler (2002) researches whether the effect of welfare benefit levels on premarital childbearing varies by context, Hoffmann (…
Childhood Living Arrangements and the Formation of Coresidential Unions
The relationship between multiple dimensions of childhood living arrangements and the formation of subsequent unions is investigated. Using the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, both statuses and transitions associated with childhood living arrangements at three different stages of childhood are considered. It was found that both statuses and transitions, but not the ages at which they occur, are related to the risk of union formation. Women…
Premarital Sex, Premarital Cohabitation, and the Risk of Subsequent Marital Dissolution Among Women
Using nationally representative data from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, I estimate the association between intimate premarital relationships (premarital sex and premarital cohabitation) and subsequent marital dissolution. I extend previous research by considering relationship histories pertaining to both premarital sex and premarital cohabitation. I find that premarital sex or premarital cohabitation that is limited to a woman's husb…
Do Residential Conditions Explain the Relationship Between Living Arrangements and Adolescent Behavior
Persistent effects of childhood living arrangements and family change on adolescent outcomes have often been attributed to differences in socialization and intrafamily processes. We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to assess an alternative explanation: that neighborhood context and residential mobility represent a central set of mechanisms through which family structure affects adolescent risk behavior. Our results indicate that t…
Wages, earnings, and occupational status: Did World War II veterans receive a premium
Military Service in the Vietnam Era and Educational Attainment
Using longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Study of Young Men for 1966-81, this study examined the effect of military service on the highest grade of schooling completed. Fixed-effects estimators were used to generate estimates of the effect of military service on the schooling trajectories of veterans and nonveterans that are independent of unmeasured household-specific and person-specific factors that may bias the relationship. The …
Race, military service, and marital timing: Evidence from the NLSY-79
I use data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth to examine the relationship between military service and marital timing for white men and black men during the 1980s. I use information about active-duty and reserve-duty service as well as veteran status to implement strong controls for selectivity. I find that active-duty military service increases the probability of first marriage for both whites and blacks. In part, this relationsh…
Military Service and Educational Attainment in the All-Volunteer Era
This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the relationship between service in the All Volunteer Force (AVF) military and educational attainment. Through the use of fixed-effects estimators, the author generated estimates of the effect of military service on the highest grade of school completed by men that are purged of the confounding effects of constant unmeasured household-specific and person-specific var…
Joining up: Did military service in the early all volunteer era affect subsequent civilian income
Complex Life Course Patterns and the Risk of Divorce in Second Marriages
In this article, I use data on women (N= 655) from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth to examine the correlates of second marital dissolution. I update the limited number of previous studies on this topic by focusing on the relationships between divorce and the complex life course patterns that characterize respondents in second marriages. I pay particular attention to the roles played by stepchildren and cohabitation. I find that women wh…
Psychology (32 works) · Sociology (31 works) · Economics (27 works) · Demography (24 works) · Demographic economics (19 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (14 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (13 works) · Military service (13 works)