I recently came across this article about a study at Georgetown looking at the employment prospects and average incomes associated with various majors. Here is the page at Georgetown devoted to the study itself. My own specialty isn’t higher education, but I’ve been thinking about it much more recently for a variety of reasons. One…
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Our paper on trends in the social origins of students at elite Chinese universities
Our paper on the long-term social origins of students at Peking University and Suzhou University has appeared in China Social Science (中国社会科学). The paper’s title is “无声的革命：北京大学与苏州大学学生社会来源研究 1952-2002 (Silent Revolution: Research on the Social Origins of Peking University and Suzhou University Students, 1952-2002).” The lead authors were James Lee/李中清 (HKUST) and LIANG Chen/梁晨 (Nanjing University)…
Fertility rates using the births in last year variable from the ACS in IPUMS
[This is another note on using the SDA interface to analyze IPUMS that is intended for students in my Introduction to Social Demography. I am posting it here rather than my class website because it may be of interest to others who are using the IPUMS for teaching.] The ACS includes some very useful questions…
Comparing birth cohorts instead of time periods in the IPUMS
[Another note intended for students in my Introduction to Social Demography class who are using IPUMS-USA for their final projects, but which may be of interest to others using IPUMS in their courses] Many students have expressed interest in examining time trends in average age at marriage, total number of children, completed education, and other…
Using ethnicity/nativity variables in IPUMS to identify 1st/2nd/3rd+ generation
[These are some notes intended for students in my undergraduate Introduction to Social Demography class, for use in working on their final projects, but I thought they would be of wider interest to others using IPUMS in their teaching.] Many students are interested in doing detailed comparisons of the social and demographic characteristics of specific…
Using ‘comparison of means’ to calculate proportions at IPUMS-USA
(I wrote this for the students in my undergraduate lecture course Introduction to Social Demography. They are working with IPUMS-USA for a final project. I thought it might be of more general interest to others who are using IPUMS-USA for each.) We often want to calculate the proportion of people with some characteristic according to…