Union Dissolution in the United Kingdom
Abstract: This article uses recent panel data to explore the dynamics of divorce in the United Kingdom. The findings are consistent with the independence hypothesis, but reveal little impact of…
Sequence Analysis
- B. Halpin
- SociologyDefinitions
- 2 February 2020
6 “SECOND WAVE” APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 10 6.1 Life Course: School To Work And The Transition To Adulthood 11 6.2 Lifecourse: Other Labor Market Trajectories . . . . . . . . . . . 13 6.3…
Unified BHPS Work-Life Histories: Combining Multiple Sources into a User-Friendly Format
- B. Halpin
- Economics
- 1 October 1998
Longitudinal data is often difficult to use, and continuous histories collected in a panel are a particularly unfriendly case. This paper reports an exercise to re-organise the British Household…
Purification and Characterization of Peroxidase Isoenzymes from Green Peas (Pisum sativum)
- B. Halpin, R. Pressey, J. Jen, N. Mondy
- Biology
- 1 May 1989
The three isoenzymes exhibited different peroxidase activities with different H-donors, different sensitivities to cyanide and different abilities to catalyze oxidation of indoleacetic acid.
Class careers as sequences : An optimal matching analysis of work-life histories
The authors apply optimal matching techniques to class careers from age 15 to age 35 for two moderately large samples, as a means of exploring the utility of this sequence-oriented approach for the…
Simulation in Sociology
- B. Halpin
- Computer Science
- 1 August 1999
This article briefly reviews the history of simulation in sociology and goes on to consider in more detail specific areas such as system dynamics, cellular automata, iterated game theory, distributed artificial intelligence, neural networks, multilevel simulation, simulation of social networks and organizations, and policy-oriented tax-benefit microsimulation.
Optimal Matching Analysis and Life-Course Data: The Importance of Duration
- B. Halpin
- Computer Science
- 1 February 2010
A modified version of the optimal matching algorithm is proposed, weighting OM’s elementary operations inversely with episode length, and it is found that where all the sequences in a data set consist of few long spells, and there is low variability in the number of spells, the modified algorithm generates an overall pattern of distances that is not very different from standard OM.
Multiple Imputation for Life-Course Sequence Data
- B. Halpin
- Computer Science
- 2012
This work proposes and demonstrates a Stata implementation of a chained multiple imputation procedure that “heals” gaps from both ends, taking account of the longitudinal nature of the measured information, and also constraining the imputations to respect this longitudinality.
Educational homogamy in Ireland and Britain: trends and patterns.
- B. Halpin
- EconomicsBritish Journal of Sociology
- 1 December 2003
It is shown that these two countries share a broadly similar pattern of educational homogamy, which is quasi-symmetric in character, with no tendency for women to marry up over and above that which can be attributed to the gender difference in educational attainment.
SADI: Sequence Analysis Tools for Stata
- B. Halpin
- Computer Science
- 1 September 2017
The SADI package provides tools for sequence analysis, which focuses on the similarity and dissimilarity between categorical time series such as life-course trajectories. SADI‘s main components are…
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