Children's Work and Schooling in the Late Nineteenth-Century Family Economy

Horan, Patrick M.; Hargis, Peggy G.

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“…In earlier periods in U.S. history (and in many developing countries at present-see, e.g., Buchmann, 1996), many families depended on the labor contributions of multiple family members for economic survival (Hall et al, 1987;Hareven, 1982;Tilly & Scott, 1978). A number of other studies have shown that children's employment interfered with schooling (Fuller, 1983;Horan & Hargis, 1991) and, moreover, that school and work were less likely to be mutually exclusive for children who worked in agriculture than for children who worked in industry (Greene & Jacobs, 1992;Walters & Briggs, 1993;Walters & James, 1992;Walters, McCammon, & James, 1990). "Work," however, may not necessarily consist of formal participation in the wage labor market (which is what arguments about "warehousing" and the expansion of schooling in response to increases in unemployment speak to).…”

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Handbook of the Sociology of Education

2006

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2006

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“…Youth in rural areas were more likely to attend school generally because the opportunity cost was low during seasons of agricultural inactivity. During the expansion of primary education, children were more likely to attend school if their parents had higher incomes (Horan and Hargis, 1991). This is to be expected if higher wages for the parents enabled subsistence without children's incomes.…”

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Industrial Composition and Intergenerational Mobility

Whitaker

2015

Working Paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)

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For fi ve decades, the share of adults employed in college-degree-intensive industries, such as health care and education, has been rising. Industries that provided employment for workers without degrees, especially manufacturing, have been reducing their payrolls. This economic transition could impact the probability of children obtaining higher levels of education than their parents achieved. In this analysis, measures of the local industrial composition from the Current Population Survey are merged with the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth using the confi dential geo-coded records. Living in a labor market with a higher share of adults employed in degree-intensive industries is positively associated with obtaining a college degree among youth whose parents do not have a degree. An additional standard deviation difference in the share of employment in degreeintensive industries corresponds to a 0.02 increase in the probability of ascending to being a college graduate, from a mean of 0.23. For cohorts born in the 1960s, living in a manufacturing-intensive region was negatively correlated with college attainment, but the relationship becomes positive among more recent cohorts. Alternate specifi cations introduce measures of several factors that could relate the industrial composition to educational attainment, including returns to education (wage premiums), opportunity costs (youth employment), parental inputs (family structure, income), community resources (per capita income), information (regional education levels, post-secondary student populations), and networks (parent's employment).

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“…In the present case, with concern about the participation of elderly men, the ideal data set would provide alternative measures such as travel time to work or work distance. Horan and Hargis (1991) characterize commuting units as market areas; Tickamyer and Bokemeier (1988) delineated local markets on the basis of 1980 census journey-to-work data. But even a unit as small as a county is rare in labor market research.…”

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Labor Markets and Opportunity Structures

Elman

1999

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This article uses linked county-level and individual-level economic, demographic, and social indicators drawn from three historical U.S. censuses to examine a construct that has been labeled labor market or opportunity structure in historical and demographic multilevel research. Findings are that turn-of-the-twentieth-century localities were diverse opportunity structures that systematically and differentially shaped older men's unemployment rates and their likelihood of work and retirement. This article also highlights issues that researchers might face as they work with linked census data-specifically, multidimensionality of contextual influences with resultant collinearity and variable selection problems.

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Children's Work and Schooling in the Late Nineteenth-Century Family Economy

Cited by 49 publications

References 28 publications

Handbook of the Sociology of Education

Handbook of the Sociology of Education

Industrial Composition and Intergenerational Mobility

Labor Markets and Opportunity Structures

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