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Eighth-grade achievement, by race, cohorts 1996–2002. Achievement data are ...
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in Crime and Inequality in Academic Achievement Across School Districts in the United States
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Published: 27 January 2020
Fig. 1 Eighth-grade achievement, by race, cohorts 1996–2002. Achievement data are from the district-level estimates from the SEDA data (Reardon et al. 2016a ). Each bar shows the average eighth grade achievement across all school districts in the sample ( N = 813) for a given birth cohort
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Cross-sectional relationship between crime and achievement. Achievement dat...
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Published: 27 January 2020
Fig. 2 Cross-sectional relationship between crime and achievement. Achievement data are from the district-level estimates from the SEDA data (Reardon et al. 2016a ), and crime data are from the FBI’s UCR Program. Each dot represents a school district ( N = 813), and it measures the log mean
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The effects of demographic factors, family background, and early job achievement on age at marriage
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Demography (1978) 15 (2): 161–175.
Published: 01 May 1978
... Achievement . Population Studies , 24 , 389 – 412 . 10.2307/2173044 Coombs , L. C. , Freedman , R. , Friedman , J. , & Pratt , W. F. ( 1970 ). Premarital Pregnancy and Status Before and After Marriage . American Journal of Sociology , 75 , 800 – 820 . 10.1086/224823...
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Demographic correlates of group achievement: contrasting patterns of Mexican-Americans and Japanese-Americans
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Demography (1972) 9 (1): 119–128.
Published: 01 February 1972
...Peter Uhlenberg Abstract Patterns of family size, family stability, and timing of family formation characteristic of Mexican-Americans are contrasted with those of Japanese-Americans, and consequences of their demographic differences for group achievement are explored. Mexican-Americans are found...
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Family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s achievement
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 777–800.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Narayan Sastry; Anne R. Pebley Abstract We examined family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s reading and mathematics achievement using data from the 2000–2001 Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. To describe inequality in achievement scores, we used Gini...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 393–418.
Published: 01 April 2021
... retention may fail to capture important differences in the academic achievement of children in same-sex-parented and different-sex-parented families. State-of the-art studies in the peer-reviewed literature have largely relied on analyses of census-based data in which the only available measure of child...
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View articletitled, Academic <span class="search-highlight">Achievement</span> of Children in Same- and Different-Sex-Parented Families: A Population-Level Analysis of Linked Administrative Data From the Netherlands
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The impact of family structure transitions on youth achievement: Evidence from the children of the NlSY79
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Demography (2005) 42 (3): 447–468.
Published: 01 August 2005
... Wu , L.L. ( 1996 ). Effects of Family Instability, Income, and Income Instability on the Risk of a Premarital Birth . American Sociological Review , 61 , 386 – 406 . 10.2307/2096355 THE IMPACT OF FAMILY STRUCTURE TRANSITIONS ON YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM THE CHILDREN...
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Differential Peer Effects, Student Achievement, and Student Absenteeism: Evidence From a Large-Scale Randomized Experiment
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 745–773.
Published: 16 February 2017
...Ozkan Eren Abstract Using data from a well-executed randomized experiment, I examine the effects of gender composition and peer achievement on high school students’ outcomes in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Results show that having a higher proportion of female peers in the classroom improves girls...
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Resolved Parental Infertility and Children’s Educational Achievement
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 911–931.
Published: 21 April 2017
... the consequences of parental health for educational performance in offspring. Here we address that omission, asking how resolved parental infertility relates to children’s academic achievement. In a sample of all Swedish births between 1988 and 1995, we find that involuntary childlessness prior to either a first...
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Neighborhoods, Schools, and Academic Achievement: A Formal Mediation Analysis of Contextual Effects on Reading and Mathematics Abilities
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1653–1676.
Published: 28 July 2017
... on academic achievement. Specifically, it uses longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, counterfactual methods, and a value-added modeling strategy to estimate the total, natural direct, and natural indirect effects of exposure to an advantaged rather than disadvantaged neighborhood...
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Published: 23 August 2017
Fig. 3 Age-specific differences in predicted cognitive achievement scores by socioeconomic disadvantage and child health. Based on the MSMs in Table 2 , differences are computed between predicted PPVT scores at the fourth quartile of socioeconomic disadvantage (child health) and those
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Published: 23 August 2017
Fig. 4 Age-specific differences in predicted cognitive achievement scores by socioeconomic disadvantage and child health, by race/ethnicity. Based on the MSMs in Table 3 , differences are computed between predicted PPVT scores at the fourth quartile of socioeconomic disadvantage (child health
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Premigration School Quality, Time Spent in the United States, and the Math Achievement of Immigrant High School Students
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1477–1498.
Published: 16 August 2016
...Robert Bozick; Alessandro Malchiodi; Trey Miller Abstract Using a nationally representative sample of 1,189 immigrant youth in American high schools, we examine whether the quality of education in their country of origin is related to post-migration math achievement in the 9th grade. To measure...
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Published: 16 August 2016
Fig. 1 Predicted 9th grade math achievement scores by grades of school in the United States for select countries
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Crime and Inequality in Academic Achievement Across School Districts in the United States
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 123–145.
Published: 27 January 2020
...Fig. 1 Eighth-grade achievement, by race, cohorts 1996–2002. Achievement data are from the district-level estimates from the SEDA data (Reardon et al. 2016a ). Each bar shows the average eighth grade achievement across all school districts in the sample ( N = 813) for a given birth cohort...
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New Partner, New Order? Multipartnered Fertility and Birth Order Effects on Educational Achievement
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1625–1646.
Published: 15 September 2020
...Mats Lillehagen; Martin Arstad Isungset Abstract A substantial amount of research shows that younger siblings perform worse than their older sisters and brothers in several socioeconomic outcomes, including educational achievement. Most of these studies examined stable families and excluded half...
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Family Income Level, Variability, and Trend as Predictors of Child Achievement and Behavior
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1499–1524.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of childhood income dynamics—level, variability, and trend—and child achievement and behavior. After income level was controlled for, income variability during childhood was not associated with child achievement or behavior, but an increasing five-year trend in income-to-needs was modestly beneficial...
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Reproductive goals and achieved fertility: A fifteen-year perspective
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Demography (1979) 16 (4): 523–534.
Published: 01 November 1979
... University Press . DEMOGRAPHY © volume 16, number 4, November 1979 REPRODUCTIVE GOALS AND ACHIEVED FERTILITY: A FIFTEEN-YEAR PERSPECTIVE LoIagene C. Coombs The Population Studies Center, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Abstract- A measure of underlying family size preference...
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Achieving expected parities: A reanalysis of Freedman et al.’s data, 1962–1977
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Demography (1984) 21 (3): 413–422.
Published: 01 August 1984
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Sloane D. M. , & Lee C. F. ( 1983 ). Sex of Previous Children and Intentions for Further Births in the United States, 1965–1976 . Demography , 20 , 353 – 367 . 10.2307/2061247 DEMOGRAPHY© Volume 21, Number 3 August 1984 ACHIEVING EXPECTED PARITIES: A REANALYSIS...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 1975–2001.
Published: 12 November 2020
... to which marriage postponement explains lower fertility among the highly educated, is not well understood. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort to analyze differences in parenthood and achieved parity for men and women, focusing on the role of marriage timing in achieving...
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View articletitled, Preferences, Partners, and Parenthood: Linking Early Fertility Desires, Marriage Timing, and <span class="search-highlight">Achieved</span> Fertility
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