Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In September 2001, shortly after the start of the new millennium and a successful seven year crime decline, the New York City Police Department faced its most difficult challenge when international terrorists mounted their largest attack on American soil. In less than two hours, over 2,700 innocent lives were lost. However, given the limited time frame, New York City rescue personnel were able to successfully evacuate over 26,000 occupants from the World Trade Center complex, over 200,000 people from the surrounding area, and more than one million from the island of Manhattan. Large scale disaster planning and personal leadership proved to be the leading contributors to the positive aspects of this tragic incident. A retired NYPD commander who coordinated rescue operations at the unfolding scene will examine both the successful and problematic factors of this traumatic event and outline the necessary counter-terrorism measures that have since been instituted.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Theory and empirical evidence suggest that work-family conflict makes people want to change the number of hours they work. However, since most studies examine work-family conflict or work hours but not both, it is unclear what kinds of changes people want or why work-family conflict makes them want those changes. Using insights from the work hours and work-family literatures, we analyze two waves of panel data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey to find some answers. Our results indicate that family-to-work conflict does not make people want to change their hours. Work-to-family conflict, however, makes people want to reduce their hours because it leads to increases in actual hours but not preferred hours. We also find that people who want to reduce their hours are often unable to do so and that when they reconcile their preferences and their behavior, they do it largely by coming to prefer more hours rather than by working fewer. These findings indicate that the relationship between work-family conflict and work hours is more complicated than anticipated. They also suggest that our understanding of work-family coping strategies can be improved by distinguishing between what people want to do and what they are able to accomplish.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Using nationally representative individual-level data from four countries—Australia, Germany, Sweden, and the U.S.—we assess the independent effects of men’s and women’s absolute earnings on their housework hours. The effect of women’s earnings on the housework hours of both women and men is substantially greater than the effect of men’s incomes. This finding is consistent across all four nations, despite the differences in their aggregate levels of gender egalitarianism, and in their gender and family policies. Regardless of the macro-level gender arrangements prevailing in a given nation, women’s earnings have a larger impact on the division of domestic labor than do men’s. In particular, they matter much more to women’s own housework time. The finding emphasizes the gender segregation of domestic labor, not only in terms of time, but also in the intrahousehold allocation of economic resources devoted to its performance. The consistency of the finding across datasets and countries resolves certain discrepancies in earlier research regarding the effects of men’s and women’s relative earnings on housework time.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Increasing numbers of full-time college students today resemble the part-time students of the past. They are going to college while working full-time, among other responsibilities. They are first-generation students from lower socio-economic backgrounds reluctantly enrolled to enhance their employment prospects. This paper explores some aspects of the fit between the properties of this growing student body and the academic structure in which it is accommodated, together with some of the implications of that fit.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In this paper, we explore gender differences and similarities in self-rated health trajectories for NSFH men and women who advanced into middle and older age between 1987/1988 and 2001/2002. Our conceptual model acknowledges the inherent physiological differences between and among males and females as well as the impact of social experiences in a stratified and gendered world. Using latent class growth curve models, we examine both measured and latent differences in the risk of poor health over time. We find no statistically significant gender differences in self-reported health trajectories. Our models reveal subgroups of men and women who differ not only in their risk for poor health over time, but the extent to which their health is affected by their resources, relationships, and behaviors. We conclude that childhood environments, health behaviors, employment conditions, household circumstances, and psychological resources are differentially associated with the self-reported health trajectories of men and women, as well as subgroups among men and among women.