Students are typically given a large amount of freedom to choose the level of "curricular dispersion": the tight focus or lack thereof in the courses they elect to take while in college. There is little evidence about what predicts students' curricular dispersion, whether it affects later college or labor force outcomes, or, in fact, how…

A sample of 1,897 adolescent workers was investigated relative to determinants of occupational status for adolescents and sex differences in determinants of occupational status. Results indicate that young males work in lower status but better paying jobs than young females. Tentative implications substantiate the existence of occupational status…