[Brownbag] Next Week's Colloquium: Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald, "Men's Labor Market Outcomes: Is There a Case for Marriage, " Monday, October 13, 2-3:30 in Barrows 402 (fwd)

[Monique Verrier]

Dear Demography Brown Bag Community,

The Demography Department will not have a regular brown bag seminar next 
week (October 15) because we are co-sponsoring Sociology's Colloquium that 
will be held on Monday, October 13 from 2-3:30 in 402 Barrows Hall. 
Alexandra Killewald will present, "Men's Labor Market Outcomes: Is There a 
Case for Marriage." Please see the email below for more information about 
this seminar.

We will have our regularly scheduled brown bag presentation this week, 
October 8 at noon in the Demography seminar room (Rannveig V. Kaldager, 
Division of Social and Demographic Research, Statistics Norway, will 
present, "The Heterogenous Impact of Sibling Sex Composition on Adult 
Fertility").

More information about the October 13 Colloquium is in the email below.


Monique Verrier
Graduate Student Affairs Officer
University of California, Berkeley


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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 16:01:45 -0700
From: John O'Donnell <od at berkeley.edu>
Subject: Next Week's Colloquium: Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald,
     "Men's Labor Market Outcomes: Is There a Case for Marriage, " Monday,
     October 13, 2-3:30 in Barrows 402

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​Men’s Labor Market Outcomes: Is There a Case for Marriage?

Social scientists have argued that marriage changes men’s work lives, but
quantitative evaluations of these claims typically only compare age-adjusted
average outcomes prior to and following marriage. This approach overlooks
the literature on the transition to adulthood, which suggests that young
adulthood is a time of both union formation and unusually rapid improvements
in work outcomes. Furthermore, the literature on the determinants of
marriage suggests that men’s work outcomes may cause marriage rather than
the other way around. We evaluate these perspectives and provide a more
rigorous estimate of the causal effect of marriage on men’s work outcomes.
We use distributed fixed-effects models and data from the National
Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 to examine how men’s work hours, firm
connections, job traits, and wages change in the years leading up to and
following marriage. We find that, even after adjusting for ageing, men’s
work outcomes improve more rapidly than expected beginning at least five
years prior to marriage. For most outcomes, improvements continue through
the first few years of marriage before leveling off. Because men enter
marriage at a time of rapid improvements in their work lives, conventional
fixed-effects models overstate marriage’s positive effects. However, there
is some evidence that the odds of employment and full-time employment
increase sharply in the year immediately preceding marriage, consistent with
the hypothesis that full-time employment is strongly normative for husbands
and that men delay marriage until finding steady work, or seek full-time
employment in anticipation of transitioning to marriage.

Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. She
received her PhD in Public Policy and Sociology from the University of
Michigan in 2011. Her research takes a demographic approach to the study of
social stratification.

Much of her work focuses on the work-family intersection, including the ways
in which earnings and employment shape women’s time in household labor, and
the effect of marriage and parenthood on workers’ wages. Her research also
engages questions regarding the distribution of U.S. wealth. She has written
on the role of parental wealth in explaining the Black-White wealth gap, as
well as the influence of parental wealth on spouse choice.

She is co-author of Is American Science in Decline? (2012), which documents
trends in the size of the American scientific workforce, public attitudes
toward science, youth interest in science, the production of scientific
degrees, and transitions to scientific employment.

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