Not All Transitions Are Equal

The Relationship Between Effects on Passing Steps in a Sequential Process and Effects on the Final Outcome

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2330786
AutoresMaarten L Buis (0000-0002-4150-4710, University of Konstanz, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume46
Fascículo3
Páginas649-680
Data de publicação2017-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociological Methods & Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0049-1241 • E-ISSN: 1552-8294
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0049124115591014
OpenAlexW1830603962
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas23
Referências citadas34

This article deals with a model for describing a sequence of events, for example, education is typically attained by a set of transitions from one level of education to the next. In particular, this article tries to reconcile measures describing the effect of a variable on each of these transitions, with measures describing the effect of this variable on the final outcome of that process. Such a relationship has been known to exist within a sequential logit model, but it has hardly been used in empirical research mainly because of an absence of a practical way of giving it a substantive interpretation. This article tries to provide such an interpretation by showing that the effect on the final outcome is a weighted sum of the effects on each transition, such that a transition gets more weight if more people are at risk of passing that transition, passing the transition is more differentiating, and people gain more from passing

Econometrics · Interpretation (philosophy) · Logit · Mathematical economics · Outcome (game theory) · Process (computing) · Sequence (biology) · Set (abstract data type) · Statistics · Transition (genetics) · Variable (mathematics) · Computer Science · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Mathematics · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Social Psychology