TY - JOUR
T1 - Educational engagement and early family formation
T2 - Differences by ethnicity and generation
AU - Glick, Jennifer E.
AU - Ruf, Stacey D.
AU - White, Michael J.
AU - Goldscheider, Frances
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is supported by a grant from NICHD (RO1 HD37054). We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Direct correspondence to Jennifer E. Glick, Department of Sociology, Arizona State University, Box 874802, Tempe, AZ 85287. E-mail: Jennifer. [email protected].
PY - 2006/3
Y1 - 2006/3
N2 - This paper examines how school engagement influences the timing of family formation for youth. We pay particular attention to variation across four racial/ethnic groups and by generation status, variation that reflects the diversification of U.S. society through immigration. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS), we employ discrete-time multinomial logistic regression models examining the likelihood of childbearing or marriage in late adolescence. We find that the delaying effects of school enrollment and engagement vary by race/ethnicity, suggesting that strategies for socioeconomic success that focus on delaying family roles are more important among some groups than others. The results also indicate that controlling for school enrollment and school engagement reduces differences in early marriage and non-marital childbearing by generation status.
AB - This paper examines how school engagement influences the timing of family formation for youth. We pay particular attention to variation across four racial/ethnic groups and by generation status, variation that reflects the diversification of U.S. society through immigration. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS), we employ discrete-time multinomial logistic regression models examining the likelihood of childbearing or marriage in late adolescence. We find that the delaying effects of school enrollment and engagement vary by race/ethnicity, suggesting that strategies for socioeconomic success that focus on delaying family roles are more important among some groups than others. The results also indicate that controlling for school enrollment and school engagement reduces differences in early marriage and non-marital childbearing by generation status.
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U2 - 10.1353/sof.2006.0049
DO - 10.1353/sof.2006.0049
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33645901549
SN - 0037-7732
VL - 84
SP - 1391
EP - 1415
JO - Social Forces
JF - Social Forces
IS - 3
ER -
