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Thursday, 26 May 2016 (Day 1)
8.00-9.00 REGISTRATION/ COFFEE AND TEA 1st Floor Lobby
9.00-9.10 Welcome Auditorium
Professor Wei-Jun Jean Yeung
Director, Centre for Family and Population Research
Department of Sociology and Asia Research Institute, NUS
9.10-9.55 Opening Speech by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam Auditorium
Guest of Honour
Singapore Deputy Prime Minister & Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies
9.55-10.20 Keynote Speech by Dr Noeleen Heyzer Auditorium
Harnessing Human Potential for a Sustainable, Secure Future of Shared Prosperity
NUS Board of Trustees & Former Undersecretary General, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
10.20-10.40 COFFEE BREAK 2nd Floor Lobby
10.40-12.10 Parallel Sessions (6 sessions)
1.1 Class and Intergenerational Effects on Schooling I Session Chair: Tina Rampino SR 1-2
The Long-term Effect of Early Parental Investment in Children on Human Capital Formation Lingxin Hao
The dynamics of privilege: What money can and cannot buy in the South Korean educational
system
Laia Sánchez Guerrero
Status reproduction in an egalitarian society: The effects of family wealth on educational
attainment, occupational status and wealth in Australia
Jenny Chesters
Late Bloomers: Parental Safety Nets for Middle Class Children in India Reeve Vanneman, Sonalde Desai
1.2 Intergenerational Transfer and Mobility Session Chair: Tak Wing Chan SR 3-4
Intergenerational Transfers in 3 European Countries Frank Furstenberg
Intergenerational Transfers of Family Resources and Life-Long Occupational Careers: Dynamic
Analyses using the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN
Kazimierz Slomczynski, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Zbigniew
Sawinski
Does Intergenerational Mobility Shape the Well-Being of Young Europeans? Evidence from
the European Social Survey
Bettina Schuck, Nadia Steiber
Intergenerational mobility in South Korea: Cohort comparison of occupational mobility Bongoh Kye, Sun-Jae Hwang
RC28 INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND INEQUALITY
CONFERENCE PROGRAMMESingapore, May 26-28, 2016
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1.3 Temporal and Regional Variations in Families and Households Session Chair: Anning Hu SR 9
States Divided: Mothers’ Housework, Childcare and Employment Time across US State
Childcare Clusters
Leah Ruppanner, Liana Sayer
Number of Descendants and Their Educational Outcomes. A Prospective Analysis of
Multigenerational Demographic Stratification in Northern Sweden in the 19th, 20th and 21st
Centuries
Martin Kolk, Martin Hällsten
Family System and Kin Influence on Male Reproduction: An East Asian Comparison, 1688-
1945
Hao Dong
Growing educational inequality in parental time investment in children: Evidence from British
Time Use Studies (1961-2015)
Evrim Altintas
1.4 Intergenerational Transfer and Eldercare Session Chair: Feng Qiushi SR 10
Daughters and Sons' Remittances in Rural China: Findings from a National Survey Rob Gruijters
The Effect of Adult Children’s Hours Worked on Elder Support: A Natural Experiment in Korea Erin Hye-Won Kim, Changjun Lee
Intergenerational Transfers and Health Care Service Utilization among Older Adults in Rural
China
Cong Zhen, Merril Silverstein
Daughter Dependence in India: Changing Intergenerational Relationships Abhijit Visaria
1.5 Children and Migration Session Chair: Ettore Recchi SR 11
Not a Zero-Sum Game: China’s Internal Migration and the Wellbeing of Rural-Origin Children Duoduo Xu, Jaap Dronkers, Xiaogang Wu
Well-being of Chinese Children and Variations by Migration Status: Evidence from A Recent
National Survey on Migration and Children
Yao Lu, Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, Donald J Treiman
For the Better Life of Children? Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants from Mainland China
to Hong Kong
Zhuoni Zhang
Parental Migration, Education Remittances, and the Educational Impact on Left-behind
Children: Evidence from Rural Ponorogo, Indonesia
Silvia Arlini, Thomas Hinz
1.6 Intergenerational Effects I - Parents and Child Well-being Session Chair: Tong Yuying SR 12
Parental employment conditions, work-family stress, and child wellbeing in Australian dual-
earner households
Jack Lam, Martin O'Flaherty, Janeen Baxter
“Preparing a future”: The Social Bases of Variations of Parenting in Post-Reform China Xiaorong Gu
Cross-national Differences in Child Poverty: The Role of Family Structure Revisited James Raymo, Marcia Carlson, Alicia VanOrman, So-Jung
Lim
The Effect of Paternal and Maternal Unemployment on Children’s Education Hannu Lehti, Aleksi Karhula, Jani Erola
12.10-13.10 LUNCH 2nd Floor Lobby
SSRM Editorial Board Meeting SR6
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13.10-14.40 Parallel Sessions (6 sessions)
2.1 Class and Intergenerational Effects on Schooling II Session Chair: Xiaogang Wu SR 1-2
Dissecting the Social Mobility Effect of the Comprehensive School Reform for the 1958 Birth
Cohort in England and Wales.
Andreas Hoherz
Aspirations and the Perpetuation of Social Inequalities: Evidence from Academic Paths in
France
Nina Guyon, Elise Huillery
Social origins and tracking in secondary education: a randomised experiment on the role of
information and relative risk-aversion
Gianluca Argentin, Giulia Assirelli, Carlo Barone
2.2 Sources of Inequality and Mobility Session Chair: Tiziana Nazio SR 3-4
Demographic Change and Income in Equality in Taiwan Jui-Chung Li, Yi-Ting Chang , Yi-Chuan Chang
Earnings, Income, and Wealth Distributions in China: Facts from the 2011 China Household
Finance Survey
Ting Zeng, Zhu Shenghao
The Role of Pluralism and Social Mobility in Class Divergence in the US Lorenzo D'Hooge, Peter Achterberg, Tim ReeskensEducation in the Intergenerational Transfer of Advantage and Disadvantage: Cross-National
Comparisons of the Mediation Role of Education in Status Attainment
Paula Tufis, Corina Brãgaru
2.3 Employment and Career Trajectories Session Chair: Sawako Shirahase SR 9
Women’s Employment Trajectories in the First Year Following Birth: Determinants and
Variations
Yao Lu
The effect of unemployment on subsequent job quality in Europe: The moderating role of
economic situation and labor market policies
Jonas Vossemer
Hukou Origin and Cumulative Advantage in China's Graduate Labor Market Jun Li
Casual Employment and Long-term Wage Outcomes Irma Mooi-Reci, Mark Wooden
2.4 Family Arrangement in Wealth Earnings Session Chair: Kimberlee Shauman SR 10
Family Pathways, Gender, and Mid-Life Earnings Marika Jalovaara, Anette Fasang
Timing of Parenthood, Earnings trajectories, and Earnings Accumulation in Sweden Juho Harkonen, Stefano Cantalini, Johan Dahlberg
Son Preference in Bequests? Child's Sex-Specific Bequest Intentions by Asset Types of Aging
Parents in South Korea
Sun-Jae Hwang
Family forming processes and home ownership in Australia: evidence from the HILDA panel
survey
Melanie Spallek, Michele Haynes
2.5 Gender and Migration Session Chair: Ji Yingchun SR 11
Migration, Gender and Intergenerational Contact in China Rob Gruijters
Migration, Gender and Psychological Well-being in China Lei Jin, Yuying Tong
Labor Force Participation of Women Left Behind in Tajikistan Sophia Kan
Migration, Gender Composition and Household Economy in Rural China Yuying Tong, Binbin Shu, Martin Piotrowski
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2.6 Intergenerational Effects II - Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantages Session Chair: Jing Shen SR 12
Intergenerational tranmission of poverty in China Fanxi Liu
Socio-Emotional Health in the Reproduction of Social Class Sophie Moullin
Intergenerational transmission of social disadvantage in Finland Teemu Vauhkonen, Johanna Kallio, Jani Erola, Timo
Kauppinen
Inequality of opportunity in health in old ages in China and India Dhiman Das
14.40-15.00 COFFEE BREAK 2nd Floor Lobby
15.00-16.30 Parallel Sessions
3.1 Class and Intergenerational Effects on Schooling III Session Chair: Qing Lai SR 1-2
Institutional Changes and Parental Compensation in Intergenerational Attainment Heta Pöyliö, Jani Erola, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen
Explaining Stability in Social Fluidity: Trends in OED Triangle in Japan Sho Fujihara, Hiroshi Ishida
Wider Variances in Children's Achievements among the Poor Reeve Vanneman, Sonalde Desai
Ethnic Differences in Education Expenditure in Israel Erela Portugaly, Yinon Cohen
3.2 Cultural Capital and Social Inequality Session Chair: Janeen Baxter SR 3-4
Education and Values Zhonglu Li
Latin as foreign language in school - Reproducing social privilege through distinction? The
case of Germany.
Tim Sawert
Intergenerational transfers of scholarly culture and their impact on adult numeracy and
literacy in 24 societies
Joanna Sikora, Mariah Evans, Jonathan Kelley
Foreign and Equal? Persistent Postsecondary Educational Inequalities in Hong Kong Raymond Wong, Glen Ng
3.3 Labour Market Institutions and Inequality Session Chair: Irma Mooi-Reci SR 9
Institutional Tradeoffs and the Production of Labor Market Inequality Thijs Bol, Thomas DiPrete
Unions and Rising Wage Inequality in Japan Namie Nagamatsu
The Transformation of Job Structure in Japan during the 1990s: Testing the Polarization Thesis Hirohisa Takenoshita
Social Inequality in Post-Secondary Educational Careers and Labor Market Returns in
Germany: A Decomposition of Earnings Differentials
Steffen Schindler, Markus Lörz
3.4 Living Arrangements for the Elderly Session Chair: Puk Teerawichitchainan SR 10
Pension receipt in China and its effects on elderly well-being and intergenerational exchange:
Crowding-out or binding together?
Pei-Chun Ko, Katja Möhring
Gender and Educational Differentials in Living Arrangements for Elderly in Hong Kong, 1981-
2011
Adam Cheung
An Analysis on the Disadvantages of Rural Elderly Females in Survival Conditions: Based on
the Third Wave Survey on the Social Status of Women in China
Lei Wang
Elder People’s Self Assessment of Well-being and Determinants during Social Welfare Reform
in China
Zhenzhen Zheng, Ting Feng
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3.5 Intergenerational Effects III - Educational Attainment of Children Session Chair: Vincent Chua SR 11
Does death really make us equal? Educational attainment and resource compensation after
parental death in Finland
Irene Prix, Jani Erola
Grandparental presence, parental involvement and educational outcomes among adolescents
in 20 countries: Evidence for the local resource competition model
Antti Tanskanen, Mirkka Danielsbacka, Jani Erola
Parental resources, sibship size and educational performance in 20 countries: Evidence for the
compensation model
Antti Tanskanen, Jani Erola, Johanna Kallio
The Intergenerational Transmission of beliefs about Achievement Attribution Zhonglu Li
3.6 Urban and Spatial Migration Session Chair: Ho Kong Chong SR 12
Occupational Structural Changes and Emergence of Human Capital Pool in Peri Urban Areas of
Large Metropolitan Cities of India: A Comparison
Pallabi Guha, Veronica Gomes
Spatio-temporal Changes in Urban Infrastructure Development Veronica Gomes, Pallabi Guha
Reconsidering commuting and migration between East and West Germany Silvia Melzer, Brenda Yeoh, Khoo Choon Yen, Maria Platt
Festivals and Reunions; Words and Worlds of Indian Migrants of Kyoto City, Japan: A
Sociological Exploration and Interpretation
Saroj Dhal
16.40-18.10 Parallel Sessions
4.1 Family Structure and Educational Outcome Session Chair: Raymond Wong SR 1-2
The effect of early parental death on children’s tertiary education Sanna Kailaheimo, Jani Erola
Diluting or Creating Resources? The Academic Effects of Siblings in Immigrant Families Mathieu Ichou
The role of grandfather for children's schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa Sandor Schrijner, Jeroen Smits
Sibling Gender Configuration and Individuals Educational Choices in Swedish Two-child
Families
Roujman Shahbazian
4.2 Youth Labour Market and Labour Market Entry Session Chair: To be announced SR 3-4
New Generation Chinese Migrant Worker Employment, Social Network and Its Effects on
Psychological Well-being
Chui Shan Chan
Graduates on the move: Determinants and returns of high-skilled migration among Italian
youth
Giulia Assirelli, Ettore Recchi
Intergenerational Transmission of Family Resources across Political Regimes: Nomenklatura
and the Risk of Unemployment, Analyses on the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN 1988-2013
Irina Tomescu-Dubrow,Kazimierz Maciek Slomczynski
Young people's strategies around poor labour market outcomes Tiziana Nazio, Marianna Filandri
4.3 Child Development and Education Session Chair: Lingxin Hao SR 9
Unequal Childhoods in China: Parental Education, Children’s Time Use, and Child
Development
Zheng Mu, Qing Lai
Consequences of Educational Assortative Marriage for Children's Academic Achievement: The
Case of South Korea
Soo-yong Byun, Yifan Bai, Hee Jin Chung
Diverging destinies in international perspective: Education, family structure, and child poverty Juho Harkonen
Cognitive and non-cognitive Skills and the Reproduction of Inequalities Wiebke Schulz, Reinhard Schunck
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4.4 Trends of Population Ageing Session Chair: Zheng Zhenzhen SR 10
Age of Retirement and Human Capital in China, 2015-2050 Qiushi Feng, Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, Zhenglian Wang, Yi
Zeng
Dynamics of Chinese Family Household, 1990-2050 Yi Zeng, Qiushi Feng, Zhenglian Wang
Historical and Future Trend of the Chinese Elderly Living Arrangement, 1990 to 2050 Zhenglian Wang, Qiushi Feng, Yi Zeng
4.5 Cohesion Mechanisms within the Family Session Chair: Adam Cheung SR 11
Generational Cohesion through Making Bequest Sawako Shirahase
Parenthood is Associated with the Likelihood of Conflicts with In-laws in Contemporary
Finland
Mirkka Danielsbacka, Antti Tanskanen, Anna Rotkirch
Divorce, father-child contact and grandparents’ involvement in childcare in Italy Marco Albertini, Marco Tosi
4.6 Female Labour Participation Session Chair: Thomas DiPrete SR 12
Gender Segregation in Employment: Female Being Selected or Autoselected? Wenxiao Zhang
Foreign Domestic Helpers and Labor Supply of Married Women in Hong Kong Xiaogang Wu, Guangye He
Female Labor Force Participation in the US: How is Immigration Shaping Recent Trends? Patricia McManus, Lauren Apgar
Care Support and Women’s Career Decisions: Evidence from South Korea Eunsil Oh
Friday, 27 May 2016 (Day 2)
8.00-8.30 COFFEE AND TEA 1st Floor Lobby
8.30-10.15 Plenary Session: Human Capital and Intergenerational Mobility Chair: Robert Hauser (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Auditorium
Keynote Presentations Keynote Speakers
Global Human CapitalWolfgang Lutz (Vienna University of Economics and
Business)
Higher Education and Implications for Intergenerational Mobility in the US Charles Hirschman (University of Washington)
Trends in Intergenerational Mobility in China Xie Yu (Princeton University)
10.15-10.35 COFFEE BREAK 2nd Floor Lobby
10.35-12.05 Parallel Sessions (5 sessions)
5.1 Higher Education Session Chair: To be announced SR 1-2
From Poverty to Prosperity: College Education, Noncognitive Abilities, and Earnings Duoduo Xu
Inequality of Educational Opportunity in Chile: Primary and Secondary effects on Social Origin
differentials in the transition to Higher Education
Francisco Ceron, Thijs Bol, Herman Van de Werfhorst
Explaining social origins differentials in access to university education: a test of the Breen-
Goldthorpe model
Giulia Assirelli, Carlo Barone, Moris Triventi
Which graduates are more likely to exit overeducation? The role of fields of study and social
origin
Queralt Capsada-Munsech
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5.2 Women, Fields and Returns of Education Session Chair: Reeve Vanneman SR 3-4
Underutilisation of Human Capital in Academia? Women Academics and Higher Education
Leadership in Hong Kong
Chee Kent Fo
Gender Differences in First Occupational: The Role of College Major Guangye He
Testing the influence of course-level gender characteristics on postsecondary achievement
and major choice
Kimberlee Shauman, Michal Kurlaender, Erika Jackson
Variability in field-specific returns to higher education in Germany and the United Kingdom.
More than the average?
Judith Offerhaus, Marita Jacob
5.3 Social Determinants of Health and Mortality Session Chair: Abhijit Visaria SR 9
Age at First Birth and Health-related Behaviour Change: Roles and Resources Martin O'Flaherty, Janeen Baxter, Michele Haynes, Gavin
Turrell
Age at First Birth, Education and Late Life Self-Rated Health Maja Djundeva
Residential Segregation and Mortality Rates: A Geospatial Inequality of Mortality Rates in
India
Ankita Shukla
Family System and Kin Influence on Old-age Mortality: An East Asian Comparison, 1716-1945 Hao Dong
5.4 Role of the Family Session Chair: Amy Hsin SR 10
Occupational aspirations among adolescents: The role of self efficacy Shahar Dangur, Asaf Levanon, Meir Yaish
Early maternal employment history and child cognitive ability - Evidence from Scotland Markus Klein, Michael Kühhirt
The Role of Public University in Japan Reexamined: Have Public Universities Expanded
Disadvantaged People’s Opportunity for University Education?
Wataru Nakazawa
Does living in a fatherless household compromise educational success? Cognitive and Non-
Cognitive Skills among 8th Grade Students
Hector Cebolla-Boado, Jonas Rald, Leire Salazar
5.5 Education and Migration Session Chair: Zhou Min SR 12
Cultural Considerations, Socioeconomic Status and Attitudes toward Immigrants:Evidence
from Hong Kong
Tianzhu Nie
The Stratification Embedded in Transnational Space: A Case Study of Mainland Chinese
Students in Sydney
Hongbo Guo
Variation in Educational Returns of Floating Population across Cities in China Menghan Zhao, Yong'ai Jin
12.05-13.05 LUNCH BREAK 2nd Floor Lobby
RC 28 Board Meeting SR 6
13.05-14.35 Parallel Sessions (5 sessions)
6.1 Class, Education, and Intergenerational Mobility Session Chair: Yu Xie SR 1-2
Social Origins of Educated Chinese Elite, 1865-2014 Chen Liang, James Lee, Yunzhu Ren, Cameron Campbell
Intergenerational Transfer in Republican China: Evidence from St. John's University, 1912-
1952
Yunzhu Ren, Chen Liang, James Lee, Cameron Campbell
Multi-Generational Social Mobility in Sweden, 1800-2000: Sustained Success or Regression to
the Mean?
Jonas Helgertz, Martin Dribe
Transmission of Education Between Generations: Evidence from Africa Janine Huisman, Jeroen Smits
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6.2 School Effects and Educational Outcomes Session Chair: Shu Hu SR 3-4
Does Achievement Sorting Affect Educational Aspirations? Erik Rosenqvist, Magnus Bygren
The Impacts of Grade Retention on Educational Achievement and Behavioral Problems in
Rural Northwest China: A Difference-in-differences Propensity Score Matching Approach
Li-Chung Hu, Emily Hannum
Elite Schools and Wealthy Neighborhoods: Their Multiplicative Role in Inequality
Reproduction
Vincent Chua, Eik Swee
How Long Will Relative Age Effects Last? Evidence from Transitions from Lower Secondary
Education into Vocational Training in Germany
Tamás Keller, Reinhard Pollak
6.3 Demographic Differences in Wage and Economic Situations Session Chair: Tianji Cai SR 9
Language Skills and Income Inequality: Evidence from Hong Kong Mengyu Liu
Ethnic Autonomous Policy and Ethnic Inequality in Contemporary China Xiaogang Wu, Guangye He
Part-time Penalty or Occupational Segregation? New Evidence on Gender Pay Gap Eva Pocher, Sin Yi Cheung, Alison Parken
Structural Condition of Gender Discrimination: Differences in Gender Disadvantage between
Korea and Taiwan
Hyung Min Cha
6.4 Determinants and Effects of Fertility Decisions Session Chair: Zheng Mu SR 10
The Impact of College Expansion on Family Formation: A Quasi-experimental Analysis of
South Korean Women
Seongsoo Choi
The Long-term Cognitive and Socioeconomic Consequences of Birth Intervals: A Within-family
Sibling Comparison using Swedish Register Data
Kieron Barclay, Martin Kolk
Birth Order, College Major, and Labor Market Outcomes in Sweden Kieron Barclay, Martin Hällsten, Mikko Myrskylä
How Does Birth Order and Number of Siblings Affect Fertility? A Within-family Comparison
using Swedish Register Data
Kathrin Morosow, Martin Kolk
6.5 Comparative Inequality in Socioeconomic Status and Well-being Session Chair: James Raymo SR 12
Inequality by Opportunity: Intergenerational Cash Flows in Europe Ronny Koenig, Bettina Isengard, Marc Szydlik
An International Comparison of Subjective Perceptions of Inequality of Opportunity Tina Rampino, Paolo Brunori, Arturo Martinez, Mark
Western
Income and Poverty Dynamics in China, Germany and the UK Tak Wing Chan, John Ermisch
Germany’s Working Class Left Behind: The Growing Class Gap in Life Satisfaction Since the
1990s
Daniel Oesch, Oliver Lipps
14.35-14.55 COFFEE BREAK 2nd Floor Lobby
14.55-16.25 Parallel Sessions (5 sessions)
7.1 Determinants of Educational Outcomes Chair: Joanna Sikora SR 1-2
Children's Self-concept and Aspirations in Singapore: An Examination of Class and School
Stratification
Xiang Ling Ong, Hoi Shan Cheung
Does Teacher Evaluation Mediate the Effect of Cultural Capital on Educational Performance? Asta Lund, Mads Jæger
Gender, Stereotype, and Academic Achievement in Contemporary China: Does Teacher
Gender Matter?
Shu Hu
Gender and socio-economic gaps in educational attainment: the emerging picture in Asia Gavin Jones
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7.2 Gender Differences in Employment and Domestic Labour Session Chair: Kriti Vikram SR 3-4
Shares of Paid and Unpaid Work and Subjective Time Pressure: A Time-diary Comparison of
Australia, Italy and Korea
Lyn Craig, Judith Brown
Fast Lane or Down the Drain? Does the Occupation Held Prior to Unemployment Shape the
Transition from Unemployment into Employment?
Anna Haegglund, Ann-Christin Hausmann, Corinna
Kleinert
Parenthood Transition and Gender Inequality in Domestic Labour in Korea Erin Hye-Won Kim, Adam Ka-Lok Cheung
Revisiting the Welfare State Paradox: A Firm-level Analysis from Japan Eunmi Mun, Mary Brinton
7.3 Intergenerational Dynamics and Well-being Session Chair: Irina Tomescu-Dubrow SR 9
Who Pays the Price for Parental Education-Occupation Mismatch? Expectations, Absenteeism
and Science Course Taking
Yariv Feniger, Anastasia Gorodzeisky, Michal Krumer-
Nevo
Sustaining the family: intergenerational justice, consumption and sustainability in
comparative perspective
Kristina Diprose, Canny Liu, Katie McQuaid, Gill Valentine
An Analysis on Family Happiness of the Parent of Only Child: based on Chinese Family
Happiness Survey in 2015
Lei Wang
The Impact of Family Migration and Reunification on the Mental Health of Adolescents in
Spain
Hector Cebolla-Boado, Amparo Gonzales Ferrer
7.4 Social Safety Nets Session Chair: Tan Ern Ser SR 10
Transitions in Giving and Receiving Financial Support among Middle and Old-Age Populations Noah Lewin-Epstein, Aviad Tur-Sinai, Noam Damri
Social Institutions, Welfare State Attitudes and Occupational Stratification Nate Breznau
Changing Perceptions of Intergenerational Mobility and Support in Singapore Debra Street, Kriston D'Amuro
Generalized Trust in East Asia: A Comparison of China, Japan and South Korea Shi Chao
7.5 Social Integration and Mobility of Immigrants and Minorities Session Chair: To be announced SR 12
Undocumented and Legal Immigrants in Higher Education: Immigrant Status, Legal Status and
Educational Outcomes
Amy Hsin, Holly Reed, Shige Song
The Role of Associational Bonding and Associational Bridging in Facilitating Minority
Involvement and Integration
Neli Demireva, Ananthi Al Ramiah
Geographical Mobility, Occupational Achievement and Social Mobility in Contemporary Italy Gabriele Ballarino, Nazareno Panichella
Assimilation of Migrant Youth in Shanghai, China Jinfei Lu, Hongwei Xu
16.25-16.40 Proceed to assembly area for social activity 1st Floor Lobby
16.40-19.00 Social activity
Asian Civilisations Museum,
Chinatown, Singapore Botanic
Gardens
19.00-21.00 Conference dinner (Registered participants only) Blue Bali
Presentation of the recipients for Travel Awards
RC 28 Report by Prof Xie Yu (RC28 President) and Hiroshi Ishida (RC28 Secretary and Treasurer)
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Saturday, 28 May 2016 (Day 3)
8.00-8.30 COFFEE AND TEA 1st Floor Lobby
8.30-9.45 Plenary Session: Human Capital and Intergenerational Mobility Chair: Donald Treiman (UCLA) Auditorium
Keynote Presentations Keynote Speakers
The American Opportunity Study Robert Hauser (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
New Data on Intergenerational Mobility in Israel Meir Yaish (University of Haifa)
9.45-10.05 COFFEE BREAK 2nd Floor
10.05-11.35 Parallel Sessions (5 sessions)
8.1 Data and Methods I Session Chair: Hiroshi Ishida SR 1-2
Methodological Approaches to Profiling and Modelling Disadvantaged Employment Pathways
in Australia
Danilo Bolano, Michele Haynes
Modelling Housing Tenure Transition in Australia Melanie Spallek, Bernard Baffour, Michele Haynes
Models of Positional and Absolute Educational Mobility Tony Tam
Too Hot to Handle: The Effect of High Temperature during Pregnancy on Endowment and
Human Capital
Zihan Hu, Teng Li
8.2 Assortative Mating Session Chair: Junhong Chu SR 3-4
Educational Assortative Mating and the Reversal of Gender Gap in Education Dana Hamplova
Assortative Mating by Social Class and Education in Rural China in the Mid-20th Century Cameron Campbell, Long Xing, Matthew Noellert, James
Lee
Heterogeneous Homogamy? A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Educational Expansion and
Demographic Changes on Educational Homogamy Trends
Julie Falcon, Dominique Joye
Hukou Intermarriage Pairings in Postsocialist China Lake Lui
8.3 Returns of Social Capital and Human Capital Session Chair: Joonmo Son SR 9
Homeownership, Property Rights, and Social Capital in Russia Hyungjun Suh
Human capital and structural inequality: The Indian case Amritorupa Sen
Human Capital Revolution or educational inflation? About the loses in the return of
educational investment for younger cohorts in old age
Judith Czepek
Academic Achievement of Immigrant Minority Youth: The Role of Social Capital and Parenting
Styles
Zhen Liu, Michael White
8.4 Socioeconomic Well-being and Migration Session Chair: Yao Lu SR 10
Demographic Tailwind' from the East Germany? The Anew Apprenticeship Opportunities of
Foreign Youth in West Germany
Holger Seibert
Being Better-off or Feeling Better-off: Points of Reference and Income Effects on Immigrants'
Life Satisfaction in Great Britain, 2009-2015
Jing Shen, Irena Kogan
Income Inequality among Foreign Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong, 1996-2011 Hongbo Wang
Neighborhood Socio-economic Status, Relative Income, and Chinese Immigrants’ Life
Satisfaction in Hong Kong
Donglin Zeng, Zhuoni Zhang
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8.5 Determinants of Educational Homogamy Session Chair: Gavin Jones SR 12
Educational Homophily and Educational Homogamy: The Impact of Maternal Role Models on
their Daughters’ Cohabitation and Marriages
Gwendolin Blossfeld
Educational Expansion and Educational Homogamy in Sweden Margarita Chudnovskaya
Does Higher Education Expansion Promote Educational Homogamy? Evidence from Married
Couples of the Post-80s Generation in Shanghai, China
Anning Hu, Zhenchao Qian
11.45-13.15 Parallel Sessions (5 sessions)
9.1 Educational Mobility Session Chair: Tim Sawert SR 1-2
The “Status-taste” Of Marshmallow – Delay of Gratification and Early Childhood Status-Gap in
Skill Formation
Tamás Keller
The Contribution of Economic Capital in Maintaining Unequal Educational Attainment: An
Ethnographic Investigation of School Education in India
Achala Gupta
The Role of Student Engagement in Moderating the Effects of Socio-economic Background on
Academic Performance among Secondary School Students in Australia
Wojtek Tomaszewski, Mark Western, Tina Rampino
Explaining Educational Underachievement amongst Singaporean Tamil Youths Lavanya Ramesh
9.2 Gender, Marriage & Family Patterns Session Chair: Lyn Craig SR 3-4
Is it All About the Economic Potential? Transition to Marriage among Women and Men in
Hong Kong
Muzhi Zhou
Gendered Inequality Effects within Family? Evidence from a Vignette Experiment in China Hania Wu, Tony Tam
Does Deindustrialization Cause Marriage Decline? Exploiting Economic Globalization as a
Natural Experiment
Fangqi Wen, Florencia Torche, Dalton Conley
9.3 Mental Health and Cognition Session Chair: Pei-Chun Ko SR 9
Social Connectedness, Gene and Biological Dysregulation: A GxE Model on Allostatic Load Tianji Cai, Michael Nino
Mental Health and Unemployment Experience in the Youth Age and Labor Market Outcomes
in the Life Course
Hans Dietrich
The Other Great Depression: The Long-run Impact of Early Shocks on Mental Health from the
Great Chinese Famine
Xiaobo Zhang, Chih Ming Tan, Mengqi Niu
Social Exclusion and Cognitive Impairment of the Elderly in China Yi Yang
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9.4 Data and Methods II Session Chair: Mark Western SR 10
A Land of the “Fair Go”? The Dynamics of Intergenerational Earnings Elasticity in Australia Yangtao Huang, Francisco Perales, Mark Western
The Missing Links: Data Quality and Bias to Estimates of Social Mobility Björn Eriksson
The Costs of Simplicity: Why Multilevel Models Need to Account for Cross-cluster Differences
in the Effects of Controls
Jan Heisig, Merlin Schaeffer, Johannes Giesecke
Longitudinal Analysis of Skewed Continues Variable using Hierarchical Bayesian Model with
Flexible Distribution
Eduardo Lucio, Michele Haynes, Bernard Baffour
9.5 The Formation and Dissolution of Marriage Session Chair: Cameron Campbell SR 12
Through the Narrowing Path: Changing Social Norms and Becoming “Leftover” Women in
Contemporary China
Yingchun Ji, Shengwei Sun, Feinian Chen
Real Income and Marital Relations: Evidence from China’s Heating Policy Junhong Chu, Haoming Liu, Ivan Png
Economic Consequences of Divorce: Gender Differences in Contemporary China Chunni Zhang, Yang Zhou
Moving Back to “Mamma”? Divorce, Intergenerational Co-residence and Family Solidarity in
Sweden
Marco Albertini, Michael Gähler, Juho Härkönen
13.15-14.15 LUNCH 2nd Floor Lobby
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