La sexualité est peu explorée dans les recherches en sciences sociales sur le changement de sexe. Pourtant, elle joue un rôle primordial dans les parcours de transition. Fondé sur une enquête par entretiens et sur des analyses secondaires d’une enquête quantitative, cet article avance que les orientations sexuelles ont des significations genrées qu...
Published in Journal of adolescence
Little attention has been paid to the role of neighborhoods as a predictor of intergenerational transmission of socio-economic status. This study uses a nationally representative, longitudinal sample from the United States to examine how neighborhoods impact racial/ethnic disparities in the intergenerational transmission of socio-economic status. T...
RésuméÀ partir du cas des bidonvilles et cités de transit de l’après-guerre à Nanterre, cet article questionne les rapports entre socialisations spatiales et mobilité sociale. La première partie montre comment ces espaces résidentiels se singularisent par des socialisations des enfants et adolescents à une triple frontière, urbaine, sociale et raci...
Published in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Background In post-industrial countries, ethnic minorities suffer poorer health and premature deaths. The present study examined ethnic differences in life expectancy and related features among elite heavyweight boxers. Methods Dates of birth and death, anthropometry, and championship years were gathered from media archives for champions and challe...
Published in Addictive behaviors
Socioeconomic differences in smoking and other tobacco use are prevalent in adolescents. Less is known about the association between intergenerational social mobility and tobacco use. Five waves of national cross-sectional School Health Promotion Study during 2008-2017 in Finland were used, including non-academically and academically oriented adole...
Published in The Journal of Chinese Sociology
The impact of social mobility on social relationships is a neglected area of mobility studies in China. Drawing on intensive interviews with 30 migrant families in Beijing, this research aims to investigate the effect of social mobility on the social life and interpersonal relationships of successful migrants, especially regarding family, friends, ...
Published in Environmental research
Growing up in poverty is associated with poor health, and the American Dream of upward mobility is becoming an illusion for many low-income children. But nearby green space can support academic achievement, creativity, and emotional regulation, and these traits might help children rise out of poverty. To examine the relationship between recent inco...
Published in Demography
Previous research on the impact of parental loss on labor market outcomes in adulthood has often suffered from low sample sizes. To generate further insights into the long-term consequences of parental death, I use the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN). The HSN contains occupational information on life courses of a sample of more than 8,00...
Published in Journal of youth and adolescence
It is undesirable when students attend institutions that are less selective than their academic credentials would permit (i.e., undermatching) because of the long-term consequences for their job opportunities and wages, in particular for students from low-socioeconomic (SES) backgrounds. Undermatching may also affect students' satisfaction during c...
Published in Demography
In this article, we report analyses of the effects of fertility and mortality trends on the mutual exposure of grandparents and grandchildren and their consequences for multigenerational processes of social mobility in the United States from 1900 to 2010. Using historical vital statistics and stable population models, we report systematic analyses ...
