Simon Cheng
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3596866 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Simon Cheng |
| PRENOMES | Simon |
| SOBRENOME | Cheng |
| ASSINATURA | CHENG S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6304-0259 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 332 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
White Flight in Public Higher Education? Racial Avoidance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Latine college students in the United States face increasing isolation in universities designated as Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). We contend that this pattern is not just a function of Latine selection into particular universities. Using enrollment data for public four-year undergraduate institutions from 1990 to 2019, we show that White student enrollment declines after universities cross the 25 percent Latine threshold and become desig…
Too Much of a Good Thing? Testing the Curvilinear Relationship between Parental Involvement and Student Outcomes in Elementary School
Most scholars, parents, and educators agree that parental involvement is beneficial for children's academic and developmental outcomes. However, a small but growing body of scholarship suggests that intensive parental involvement may potentially hinder children's development. In this study, we examine the 'more is less' assumption in parental involvement research and formally test the argument of parental overinvolvement. Using nationally represe…
Adolescent Well-Being and ICT Use
One parent, two parents, one sex, two sexes
Objective The aim of this study is to compare public opinion regarding single and same‐sex parents. Background Comparing attitudes about the effectiveness of single‐parents to same‐sex parents shows how much importance the public places on the number of parents compared to the sex of the parents; however, surprisingly little research examines attitudes about single and same‐sex parenting ability. Method We use data from the 2012 General Social Su…
Going Greek
Social scientists have long recognized that college students from lower-income households have lower college completion rates than their more affluent peers who are attending the very same schools. Yet parsing the mechanisms through which relative socioeconomic disadvantage and privilege influence college completion has been difficult. This paper leverages a novel dataset comprising information from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Sys…
National Income, Political Freedom, and Investments in R&D and Education
Adoption Context, Parental Investment, and Children's Educational Outcomes
Adoptive parents invest more resources into their children than comparable nonadoptive and biological parents, a pattern strongly linked to parental socioeconomic status. But important differences among families related to adoption context (international, private, foster) could affect parental investment and its impact on educational outcomes. Using the National Survey of Children's Health, our findings indicate that parental investment strategie…
Boys, Girls, and the Second Shift
Sociological research examines the gender gap reversal in higher education and the gender division in paid and unpaid labor for adult women, especially “the second shift literature,” as two distinct topics. In this study, we extend the insights of the second shift literature to research on youth labor and adolescents’ enrollment in higher education. Using data from the Youth Development Study from 1988 to 1992, we find that the negative associati…
Implications of Changing Family Forms for Children
This paper explores what it means to do a sociology of families, that is, one that acknowledges and considers a wider array of family forms than typically has been explored. We begin by reviewing the existing sociological research on a range of alternative family forms, ultimately focusing on older-parent, adoptive, same-sex, and multiracial families. We describe and critically assess four theoretical approaches to examining family forms-family s…
Measurement, methods, and divergent patterns
Beyond the One-Drop Rule
Simon Cheng, David Weakliem Sociological Science, March 17, 2014 DOI 10.15195/v1.a6 Abstract We use data from a national survey of likely voters conducted before the 2008 election to study the association between Obama's perceived racial identity and voters' choices
The effects of Internet use on adolescents' first romantic and sexual relationships in Taiwan
Internet use and digital networking are increasingly an integral part of adolescents' social lives. This study examines the influences of Internet use in Taiwan on two important adolescent social behaviors: first romantic relationship and sexual debut. Using data from the Taiwan Youth Project (TYP), 2000-2009, the results of event history analyses suggest that adolescents' Internet use for educational purposes reduces the rates of having a first …
How institutional context alters social reproduction dynamics
Misclassification by Whom
racial identity and perceptions by others. Using a creative research design that relies primarily on the third wave in-home inter views of the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), CT indeed, the pattern is nonsignificant or only marginally significant among self-reported American Indians who are classified as White. This is a very important article. Its theoretical arguments are highly persuasive, and its empirical evid…
School Racial Composition and Biracial Adolescents' School Attachment
Despite extensive research on multiracial youth in recent years, to date, no empirical studies have analyzed how racial context may affect biracial adolescents' sense of belonging in a social institution beyond families. In this study, we examine how the racial makeup of the student body affects self-identified biracial adolescents' school attachment. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we find that the proportio…
A New Mixture Model for Misclassification With Applications for Survey Data
Social scientists often rely on survey data to examine group differences. A problem with survey data is the potential misclassification of group membership due to poorly trained interviewers, inconsistent responses, or errors in marking questions. In data containing unequal subsample sizes, the consequences of misclassification can be considerable, especially for groups with small sample sizes. In this study, the authors develop a new mixture mod…
Adult Social Capital and Track Placement of Ethnic Groups in Germany
The dictum that “context matters” notwithstanding, few researchers have focused on how social capital affects educational outcomes for ethnic groups outside of the United States. Using German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) data, analyses highlight the group‐specific effects of parental social capital on track placement among 11–16‐year‐old German and non‐German students. For both groups, parents’ family ties fail to affect track placement. Parents’ …
Adoptive Parents, Adaptive Parents
Contemporary legal and scholarly debates emphasize the importance of biological parents for children's well-being. Scholarship in this vein often relies on stepparent families even though adoptive families provide an ideal opportunity to explore the role of biology in family life. In this study, we compare two-adoptive-parent families with other families on one key characteristic-parental investment. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudin…
Testing for IIA in the Multinomial Logit Model
The multinomial logit model is perhaps the most commonly used regression model for nominal outcomes in the social sciences. A concern raised by many researchers, however, is the assumption of the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) that is implicit in the model. In this article, the authors undertake a series of Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate the three most commonly discussed tests of IIA. Results suggest that the size properties o…
Under and Beyond Constraints
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998–99, the authors examine the extent to which biracial families differ from monoracial families in their transmission of resources to young children. In these analyses, the authors demonstrate the utility of distinguishing not only between white‐biracial and nonwhite‐biracial families and but also between even more refined measures of biracial families (e.g., white f…
Special Reviewers
Small Samples, Big Challenges
We discuss the challenges of small-subsample sizes that family scholars often encounter when studying nontraditional or less common family types. We begin by identifying the general difficulties of using existing data in this line of research and then discuss potential solutions that may help researchers to avoid these problems. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, we use the example of monoracial White, monoracial Asian, and A…
Racial Differences in the Effects of Significant Others on Students' Educational Expectations
This study compares the impact of the educational aspirations of parents, teachers, close relatives, and peers on students' educational expectations across various racial groups. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study, the authors found that both the levels of significant others' aspirations and the effects of these aspirations vary by students' racial statuses and types of significant others. First, Asian, Hispanic, and Africa…
Family socialization of ethnic identity among Chinese American pre-adolescents
The linkage between family structure, language, and ethnic identity is investigated to find out the effects of two major socialization mechanisms: one, family cultural transmission, and the other, structural symbolic interaction. The data on Chinese-American children indicates that family language proficiency is retained mainly through parental teaching; thus, first-born children and those with fewer siblings were favored. The construction of eth…
Adoptive Parents, Adaptive Parents
Contemporary legal and scholarly debates emphasize the importance of biological parents for children's well-being. Scholarship in this vein often relies on stepparent families even though adoptive families provide an ideal opportunity to explore the role of biology in family life. In this study, we compare two-adoptive-parent families with other families on one key characteristic-parental investment. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudin…
Racial Differences in the Effects of Significant Others on Students' Educational Expectations
This study compares the impact of the educational aspirations of parents, teachers, close relatives, and peers on students' educational expectations across various racial groups. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study, the authors found that both the levels of significant others' aspirations and the effects of these aspirations vary by students' racial statuses and types of significant others. First, Asian, Hispanic, and Africa…
Testing for IIA in the Multinomial Logit Model
The multinomial logit model is perhaps the most commonly used regression model for nominal outcomes in the social sciences. A concern raised by many researchers, however, is the assumption of the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) that is implicit in the model. In this article, the authors undertake a series of Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate the three most commonly discussed tests of IIA. Results suggest that the size properties o…
Under and Beyond Constraints
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998–99, the authors examine the extent to which biracial families differ from monoracial families in their transmission of resources to young children. In these analyses, the authors demonstrate the utility of distinguishing not only between white‐biracial and nonwhite‐biracial families and but also between even more refined measures of biracial families (e.g., white f…
Measurement, methods, and divergent patterns
Implications of Changing Family Forms for Children
This paper explores what it means to do a sociology of families, that is, one that acknowledges and considers a wider array of family forms than typically has been explored. We begin by reviewing the existing sociological research on a range of alternative family forms, ultimately focusing on older-parent, adoptive, same-sex, and multiracial families. We describe and critically assess four theoretical approaches to examining family forms-family s…
School Racial Composition and Biracial Adolescents' School Attachment
Despite extensive research on multiracial youth in recent years, to date, no empirical studies have analyzed how racial context may affect biracial adolescents' sense of belonging in a social institution beyond families. In this study, we examine how the racial makeup of the student body affects self-identified biracial adolescents' school attachment. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we find that the proportio…
Small Samples, Big Challenges
We discuss the challenges of small-subsample sizes that family scholars often encounter when studying nontraditional or less common family types. We begin by identifying the general difficulties of using existing data in this line of research and then discuss potential solutions that may help researchers to avoid these problems. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, we use the example of monoracial White, monoracial Asian, and A…
Family socialization of ethnic identity among Chinese American pre-adolescents
The linkage between family structure, language, and ethnic identity is investigated to find out the effects of two major socialization mechanisms: one, family cultural transmission, and the other, structural symbolic interaction. The data on Chinese-American children indicates that family language proficiency is retained mainly through parental teaching; thus, first-born children and those with fewer siblings were favored. The construction of eth…
Misclassification by Whom
racial identity and perceptions by others. Using a creative research design that relies primarily on the third wave in-home inter views of the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), CT indeed, the pattern is nonsignificant or only marginally significant among self-reported American Indians who are classified as White. This is a very important article. Its theoretical arguments are highly persuasive, and its empirical evid…
Too Much of a Good Thing? Testing the Curvilinear Relationship between Parental Involvement and Student Outcomes in Elementary School
Most scholars, parents, and educators agree that parental involvement is beneficial for children's academic and developmental outcomes. However, a small but growing body of scholarship suggests that intensive parental involvement may potentially hinder children's development. In this study, we examine the 'more is less' assumption in parental involvement research and formally test the argument of parental overinvolvement. Using nationally represe…
Adult Social Capital and Track Placement of Ethnic Groups in Germany
The dictum that “context matters” notwithstanding, few researchers have focused on how social capital affects educational outcomes for ethnic groups outside of the United States. Using German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) data, analyses highlight the group‐specific effects of parental social capital on track placement among 11–16‐year‐old German and non‐German students. For both groups, parents’ family ties fail to affect track placement. Parents’ …
National Income, Political Freedom, and Investments in R&D and Education
Adoption Context, Parental Investment, and Children's Educational Outcomes
Adoptive parents invest more resources into their children than comparable nonadoptive and biological parents, a pattern strongly linked to parental socioeconomic status. But important differences among families related to adoption context (international, private, foster) could affect parental investment and its impact on educational outcomes. Using the National Survey of Children's Health, our findings indicate that parental investment strategie…
The effects of Internet use on adolescents' first romantic and sexual relationships in Taiwan
Internet use and digital networking are increasingly an integral part of adolescents' social lives. This study examines the influences of Internet use in Taiwan on two important adolescent social behaviors: first romantic relationship and sexual debut. Using data from the Taiwan Youth Project (TYP), 2000-2009, the results of event history analyses suggest that adolescents' Internet use for educational purposes reduces the rates of having a first …
Beyond the One-Drop Rule
Simon Cheng, David Weakliem Sociological Science, March 17, 2014 DOI 10.15195/v1.a6 Abstract We use data from a national survey of likely voters conducted before the 2008 election to study the association between Obama's perceived racial identity and voters' choices
How institutional context alters social reproduction dynamics
White Flight in Public Higher Education? Racial Avoidance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Latine college students in the United States face increasing isolation in universities designated as Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). We contend that this pattern is not just a function of Latine selection into particular universities. Using enrollment data for public four-year undergraduate institutions from 1990 to 2019, we show that White student enrollment declines after universities cross the 25 percent Latine threshold and become desig…
A New Mixture Model for Misclassification With Applications for Survey Data
Social scientists often rely on survey data to examine group differences. A problem with survey data is the potential misclassification of group membership due to poorly trained interviewers, inconsistent responses, or errors in marking questions. In data containing unequal subsample sizes, the consequences of misclassification can be considerable, especially for groups with small sample sizes. In this study, the authors develop a new mixture mod…
Family socialization of ethnic identity among Chinese American pre-adolescents
The linkage between family structure, language, and ethnic identity is investigated to find out the effects of two major socialization mechanisms: one, family cultural transmission, and the other, structural symbolic interaction. The data on Chinese-American children indicates that family language proficiency is retained mainly through parental teaching; thus, first-born children and those with fewer siblings were favored. The construction of eth…
Racial Differences in the Effects of Significant Others on Students' Educational Expectations
This study compares the impact of the educational aspirations of parents, teachers, close relatives, and peers on students' educational expectations across various racial groups. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study, the authors found that both the levels of significant others' aspirations and the effects of these aspirations vary by students' racial statuses and types of significant others. First, Asian, Hispanic, and Africa…
Special Reviewers
Small Samples, Big Challenges
We discuss the challenges of small-subsample sizes that family scholars often encounter when studying nontraditional or less common family types. We begin by identifying the general difficulties of using existing data in this line of research and then discuss potential solutions that may help researchers to avoid these problems. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, we use the example of monoracial White, monoracial Asian, and A…
Adult Social Capital and Track Placement of Ethnic Groups in Germany
The dictum that “context matters” notwithstanding, few researchers have focused on how social capital affects educational outcomes for ethnic groups outside of the United States. Using German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) data, analyses highlight the group‐specific effects of parental social capital on track placement among 11–16‐year‐old German and non‐German students. For both groups, parents’ family ties fail to affect track placement. Parents’ …
Adoptive Parents, Adaptive Parents
Contemporary legal and scholarly debates emphasize the importance of biological parents for children's well-being. Scholarship in this vein often relies on stepparent families even though adoptive families provide an ideal opportunity to explore the role of biology in family life. In this study, we compare two-adoptive-parent families with other families on one key characteristic-parental investment. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudin…
Testing for IIA in the Multinomial Logit Model
The multinomial logit model is perhaps the most commonly used regression model for nominal outcomes in the social sciences. A concern raised by many researchers, however, is the assumption of the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) that is implicit in the model. In this article, the authors undertake a series of Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate the three most commonly discussed tests of IIA. Results suggest that the size properties o…
Under and Beyond Constraints
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998–99, the authors examine the extent to which biracial families differ from monoracial families in their transmission of resources to young children. In these analyses, the authors demonstrate the utility of distinguishing not only between white‐biracial and nonwhite‐biracial families and but also between even more refined measures of biracial families (e.g., white f…
A New Mixture Model for Misclassification With Applications for Survey Data
Social scientists often rely on survey data to examine group differences. A problem with survey data is the potential misclassification of group membership due to poorly trained interviewers, inconsistent responses, or errors in marking questions. In data containing unequal subsample sizes, the consequences of misclassification can be considerable, especially for groups with small sample sizes. In this study, the authors develop a new mixture mod…
School Racial Composition and Biracial Adolescents' School Attachment
Despite extensive research on multiracial youth in recent years, to date, no empirical studies have analyzed how racial context may affect biracial adolescents' sense of belonging in a social institution beyond families. In this study, we examine how the racial makeup of the student body affects self-identified biracial adolescents' school attachment. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we find that the proportio…
How institutional context alters social reproduction dynamics
Misclassification by Whom
racial identity and perceptions by others. Using a creative research design that relies primarily on the third wave in-home inter views of the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), CT indeed, the pattern is nonsignificant or only marginally significant among self-reported American Indians who are classified as White. This is a very important article. Its theoretical arguments are highly persuasive, and its empirical evid…
Beyond the One-Drop Rule
Simon Cheng, David Weakliem Sociological Science, March 17, 2014 DOI 10.15195/v1.a6 Abstract We use data from a national survey of likely voters conducted before the 2008 election to study the association between Obama's perceived racial identity and voters' choices
The effects of Internet use on adolescents' first romantic and sexual relationships in Taiwan
Internet use and digital networking are increasingly an integral part of adolescents' social lives. This study examines the influences of Internet use in Taiwan on two important adolescent social behaviors: first romantic relationship and sexual debut. Using data from the Taiwan Youth Project (TYP), 2000-2009, the results of event history analyses suggest that adolescents' Internet use for educational purposes reduces the rates of having a first …
Measurement, methods, and divergent patterns
Implications of Changing Family Forms for Children
This paper explores what it means to do a sociology of families, that is, one that acknowledges and considers a wider array of family forms than typically has been explored. We begin by reviewing the existing sociological research on a range of alternative family forms, ultimately focusing on older-parent, adoptive, same-sex, and multiracial families. We describe and critically assess four theoretical approaches to examining family forms-family s…
Boys, Girls, and the Second Shift
Sociological research examines the gender gap reversal in higher education and the gender division in paid and unpaid labor for adult women, especially “the second shift literature,” as two distinct topics. In this study, we extend the insights of the second shift literature to research on youth labor and adolescents’ enrollment in higher education. Using data from the Youth Development Study from 1988 to 1992, we find that the negative associati…
Going Greek
Social scientists have long recognized that college students from lower-income households have lower college completion rates than their more affluent peers who are attending the very same schools. Yet parsing the mechanisms through which relative socioeconomic disadvantage and privilege influence college completion has been difficult. This paper leverages a novel dataset comprising information from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Sys…
National Income, Political Freedom, and Investments in R&D and Education
Adoption Context, Parental Investment, and Children's Educational Outcomes
Adoptive parents invest more resources into their children than comparable nonadoptive and biological parents, a pattern strongly linked to parental socioeconomic status. But important differences among families related to adoption context (international, private, foster) could affect parental investment and its impact on educational outcomes. Using the National Survey of Children's Health, our findings indicate that parental investment strategie…
Adolescent Well-Being and ICT Use
One parent, two parents, one sex, two sexes
Objective The aim of this study is to compare public opinion regarding single and same‐sex parents. Background Comparing attitudes about the effectiveness of single‐parents to same‐sex parents shows how much importance the public places on the number of parents compared to the sex of the parents; however, surprisingly little research examines attitudes about single and same‐sex parenting ability. Method We use data from the 2012 General Social Su…
Too Much of a Good Thing? Testing the Curvilinear Relationship between Parental Involvement and Student Outcomes in Elementary School
Most scholars, parents, and educators agree that parental involvement is beneficial for children's academic and developmental outcomes. However, a small but growing body of scholarship suggests that intensive parental involvement may potentially hinder children's development. In this study, we examine the 'more is less' assumption in parental involvement research and formally test the argument of parental overinvolvement. Using nationally represe…
White Flight in Public Higher Education? Racial Avoidance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Latine college students in the United States face increasing isolation in universities designated as Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). We contend that this pattern is not just a function of Latine selection into particular universities. Using enrollment data for public four-year undergraduate institutions from 1990 to 2019, we show that White student enrollment declines after universities cross the 25 percent Latine threshold and become desig…
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