George D. Lowe

Public Support for Environmental Protection New Evidence from National Surveys

The amount of support given environmental protection relative to that given ten other problem areas did not decline between 1973 (immediately prior to the “energy crisis”) and 1978. Analysis of the sources of public support for environmental protection revealed that only age had a substantial independent effect (β = −.168) on environmental priority scores.

Race and Attitudes Toward Local Police Another Look

Using 1973 national poll data, this article finds that race and nine other standard demographic variables account for little of the variation in how well people like their local police. Nevertheless, several weak but intriguing relationships emerge. While blacks dislike local police significantly more than whites, age, rather than race, is the best predictor in the overall sample. Further, different forces are related to these attitudes within

Early Marriage as a Career Contingency: The Prediction of Educational Attainment.

A new definition of early marriage is proposed and tested against age at first marriage for ability to predict educational attainment. Using multivariate statistics and a national probability sample, the index of early marriage was found to be the superior measure. A path analysis shows that generally reduced educational attainment is a consequence of early marriage in the total sample. However, women are more susceptible to reduced education by virtue of their greater propensity to marry early.

Changes in the influence of early marriage on the educational attainment of men and women

Has the impact of early marriage on educational attainment lessened among younger men and women? Using national survey data and an index of early marriage, this study suggests that the effects of early marriage have, in fact, increased in their negative consequences for both genders, with females consistently more at risk of reduced education across all birth cohorts. Possible explanations for this difference include the disproportionate tendency of women to choose early marriage, despite the liberating philosophy of the womens movement. Further, the effect of early marriage on womens educational attainment is shown to have cumulatively increasing negative economic consequences because of the rising number of female‐headed households which result from divorce.

Gender, marital status, and mental well‐being: A retest of Bernard's his and her marriages

In The Future of Marriage, Bernard (1972) states that marriage is good for men but not for women: she reports married males to be happier than unmarried males or married women, who in turn are worse off emotionally than single women. The present study tests Bernards thesis with a multi‐item index of mental well‐being and does not substantiate the relationships stated above. However, marriage is more beneficial for men than for women in that there is a greater difference in mental well‐being between married and unmarried men than women.

Comment on Hanson and Tuch "The determinants of marital instability: some methodological issues".

This is a critique of a 1984 study by Sandra L. Hanson and Steven A. Tuch concerning the relationship in the United States between divorce and spouses employment. The nature of the data used concerning spouses employment and time-order questions concerning the definition of divorced status are particularly emphasized. A reply by Hanson and Tuch is also included (p. 670-2). (ANNOTATION)