Sharon L Sassler
Biographic Data
| ID | 91081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon L Sassler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon L |
| FAMILY NAME | Sassler |
| SIGNATURE | SASSLER S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sharon Sassler, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University. Her main fields of interest are social demography, immigration and immigrant adaptation, race and ethnicity, and young adult transitions. She is currently studying gender differences in immigrant adaptation. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cohabitation
The past few decades have brought dramatic changes in the residential arrangements of romantically involved unmarried adults. As sexual activity became uncoupled from marriage, growing numbers of young couples began sharing a home and a bed without the legal contract of marriage. Cohabitation, as this type of living arrangement is commonly known, has become a normative part of the adult life course
Cohabitation
The past few decades have brought dramatic changes in the residential arrangements of romantically involved unmarried adults. Indeed, as sexual activity has become uncoupled from marriage, growing numbers of young couples have begun sharing a home and a bed without the legal sanction of marriage. Cohabitation, as this type of living arrangement is commonly known, has become a normative part of the adult life course
School Participation Among Immigrant Youths: The Case of Segmented Assimilation in the Early 20th Century
Research on the educational enrollment of immigrants has typically asserted that today's immigrant children are educationally disadvantaged and that earlier waves of immigrants were more readily absorbed into the American educational system. This article addresses these assumptions, drawing on traditional assimilationist and status competition approaches to racial and ethnic stratification. Data from the 1920 IPUMS census database are used to ana…
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Women's Marital Timing at the Turn of the Century: Generational and Ethnic Differences
This article utilizes accelerated failure time models to estimate the effect of immigration, generation, and ethnicity on timing of first marriage among women living in the United States in 1910. Although historical research suggests that family need resulted in marital delay, I argue that family strategies for socioeconomic mobility is a more likely explanation. Second-generation women from groups experiencing substantial socioeconomic mobility …
School Participation Among Immigrant Youths: The Case of Segmented Assimilation in the Early 20th Century
Research on the educational enrollment of immigrants has typically asserted that today's immigrant children are educationally disadvantaged and that earlier waves of immigrants were more readily absorbed into the American educational system. This article addresses these assumptions, drawing on traditional assimilationist and status competition approaches to racial and ethnic stratification. Data from the 1920 IPUMS census database are used to ana…
Women's Marital Timing at the Turn of the Century: Generational and Ethnic Differences
This article utilizes accelerated failure time models to estimate the effect of immigration, generation, and ethnicity on timing of first marriage among women living in the United States in 1910. Although historical research suggests that family need resulted in marital delay, I argue that family strategies for socioeconomic mobility is a more likely explanation. Second-generation women from groups experiencing substantial socioeconomic mobility …
Women's Marital Timing at the Turn of the Century: Generational and Ethnic Differences
This article utilizes accelerated failure time models to estimate the effect of immigration, generation, and ethnicity on timing of first marriage among women living in the United States in 1910. Although historical research suggests that family need resulted in marital delay, I argue that family strategies for socioeconomic mobility is a more likely explanation. Second-generation women from groups experiencing substantial socioeconomic mobility …
Special Reviewers
School Participation Among Immigrant Youths: The Case of Segmented Assimilation in the Early 20th Century
Research on the educational enrollment of immigrants has typically asserted that today's immigrant children are educationally disadvantaged and that earlier waves of immigrants were more readily absorbed into the American educational system. This article addresses these assumptions, drawing on traditional assimilationist and status competition approaches to racial and ethnic stratification. Data from the 1920 IPUMS census database are used to ana…
Cohabitation
The past few decades have brought dramatic changes in the residential arrangements of romantically involved unmarried adults. Indeed, as sexual activity has become uncoupled from marriage, growing numbers of young couples have begun sharing a home and a bed without the legal sanction of marriage. Cohabitation, as this type of living arrangement is commonly known, has become a normative part of the adult life course
Cohabitation
The past few decades have brought dramatic changes in the residential arrangements of romantically involved unmarried adults. As sexual activity became uncoupled from marriage, growing numbers of young couples began sharing a home and a bed without the legal contract of marriage. Cohabitation, as this type of living arrangement is commonly known, has become a normative part of the adult life course
Demography (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Cohabitation (2 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (2 works) · Demography (2 works)