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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 535–562.
Published: 01 April 2022
... as exploiting variations in the implementation of China's Compulsory Education Law, we examine the effects of adult children's education on the prevalence of chronic cardiovascular illnesses among older parents in China and explore potential mechanisms. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that additional...
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 289–305.
Published: 01 May 2007
... levels of resource transfers between family members. This study employs 14 years of longitudinal data from Taiwan to examine the combined effects of the education of older adults and their adult children on the mortality outcomes of older adults. We use nested Gompertz hazard models to evaluate...
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Published: 19 May 2020
Fig. 5 Percentage of young adult women aged 29–31 who ever cohabited, by education level. Sources: 1988 NSFG and 2011–2015 NSFG.
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 621–644.
Published: 03 January 2019
...Jennifer Karas Montez; Anna Zajacova; Mark D. Hayward; Steven H. Woolf; Derek Chapman; Jason Beckfield Abstract Adult mortality varies greatly by educational attainment. Explanations have focused on actions and choices made by individuals, neglecting contextual factors such as economic and policy...
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Demography (1995) 32 (2): 215–229.
Published: 01 May 1995
... educational differences in mortality rates. With log-rates modeling, we systematically analyze the variability in educational differences in mortality by race and sex across the adult life cycle. The relative differences in mortality rates between educational levels decline with age at the same pace for all...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 410–421.
Published: 01 March 1968
... United States Bureau of the Census, “The Post-Enumeration Survey: 1950,” Technical Paper No. 4 (Washington, D.C.: 1960). 6 Susan B. Orr, “An Estimate of the ‘True’ Educational Attainment Distribution of the United States Adult Population: 1910 to 1960” (Master's thesis, Florida State University, 1966...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 829–847.
Published: 01 June 2024
... with educational investments. We use the American Time Use Survey (2013–2019) to identify and describe youth caregivers (aged 15–18) and young adult caregivers (aged 19–22) and compare them with non-caregiving peers. We estimate that there are approximately 1,623,000 youth caregivers and 1,986,000 young adult...
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Cumulative Childhood Adversity, Educational Attainment, and Active Life Expectancy Among U.S. Adults
Demography (2014) 51 (2): 413–435.
Published: 27 November 2013
.... Within levels of educational attainment, adults from disadvantaged childhoods lived fewer total and active years, and spent a greater portion of life impaired compared with adults from advantaged childhoods. Higher levels of education did not ameliorate the health consequences of disadvantaged childhoods...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 315–336.
Published: 13 January 2012
...Jennifer Karas Montez; Robert A. Hummer; Mark D. Hayward Abstract A vast literature has documented the inverse association between educational attainment and U.S. adult mortality risk but given little attention to identifying the optimal functional form of the association. A theoretical explanation...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1693–1721.
Published: 06 August 2019
... education and smoking behavior. Our results provide evidence that interventions that move upstream to apply universally regardless of individual educational attainment—here, tobacco clean air policies—are particularly effective among young adults with the lowest levels of parental or individual educational...
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in Educational Disparities in Adult Mortality Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s?
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Published: 03 January 2019
Fig. 1 Educational disparities in adult mortality during the twenty-first century (1999–2011) and how the disparities have changed since the late twentieth century (1985–1998). The educational disparity in mortality is defined here as the relative risk (RR) of death for adults without a high
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 613–639.
Published: 17 March 2015
... socioeconomic status and adult educational attainment suggest that social pathways only mediate the relationship between birth order and mortality risk in adulthood to a limited degree. 13 2 2015 17 3 2015 © Population Association of America 2015 2015 Birth order Mortality Fixed effects...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1635–1664.
Published: 10 September 2019
... districts in the United States, we document levels and gaps in school district financial resources—total per-pupil expenditures—and social resources—local rates of adult educational attainment, family structure, and adult unemployment—available to the average public school student at a variety of income...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1147–1173.
Published: 11 April 2017
... with a four-year degree. On the other hand, patterns of adults’ participation in formal education are widening educational gaps between those with and without traditional-age college experience. 13 3 2017 11 4 2017 © Population Association of America 2017 2017 Adult education Gender...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1875–1897.
Published: 16 August 2019
...Paula Fomby; Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz Abstract Young adults raised outside of two-parent families receive less financial support from their families for education compared with peers who always lived with both parents. We consider how parents’ union status over time shapes contributions for young adult...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1641–1665.
Published: 04 October 2014
... association between volatility exposure and educational attainment is largest for young adults from moderate-income families. Income IGE models include an age quartic for offspring age interacted with mean family income during childhood. For income elasticity models in Eq. ( 9 ), the offspring’s age equals...
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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 521–542.
Published: 01 August 2003
... financial behavior; saving; and, ultimately, adults’ wealth. I demonstrate that sibship size is associated with lower overall wealth in adulthood and that parents’ resources and education, respondent’s education, financial transfers, and financial behavior all mitigate the effect of siblings. Sibship size...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 501–528.
Published: 23 March 2020
... on young adult health and educational attainment of childhood years spent in three doubled-up household types: (1) those formed with children’s grandparent(s), (2) those formed with children’s adult sibling(s), and (3) those formed with other extended family or non-kin adults. Using marginal structural...
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1489–1516.
Published: 01 August 2022
... ages 15 to 80. By examining the impact of New Deal emergency employment work-relief programs on educational, economic, and health outcomes across multiple points in the life course, we aim to elucidate the life course relationship between childhood neighborhood, adolescent outcomes, adult socioeconomic...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 933–966.
Published: 01 June 2024
... of education attained without sufficient attention to heterogeneity within educational attainment categories, such as different institution types among college graduates. Using biomarker data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we test whether the physical health...
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