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Demography (1976) 13 (4): 577–580.
Published: 01 November 1976
... for the average monthly wages. Such troughs almost certainly are the result of workers with less education using a rounded year of birth, and, correspondingly, such workers would tend to have lower earnings. 26 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1976 1976 Verse Asian Culture Average...
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 511–536.
Published: 01 August 2006
... at risk of dropping out. However, cultural capital and immigrant optimism buffer first-generation Hispanic youth and the children of Asian immigrants from the risk of dropping out of high school. While human and social capital resources improve with immigrant generation, cultural capital diminishes...
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 161–175.
Published: 01 May 2001
...-national and panethnic interchangeably to describe the relatively new ethnic categories (Hispanic and Asian) that are themselves aggregates of many different na- tional cultures. Religious groups (Glenn 1982; Johnson 1980; Kalmijn 1991a; Kennedy 1944, 1952), national-origin groups (Botev 1994; Hout...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1081–1104.
Published: 27 May 2011
... by taking account of these two variables that are strongly related to both ethnicity and mortality. The importance of personal behaviors, such as alcohol consumption, in explaining mortality differences between Slavs and central Asians supports the “cultural” hypothesis because, as we will discuss later...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1143–1171.
Published: 01 June 2022
... unequal infant and child health by sex among births to Chinese and Asian Indian parents in the United States ( Almond and Cheng 2021 ; Almond and Sun 2017 ; Muchomba and Chatterji 2020 ). Unbalanced sex ratios shape multiple demographic and cultural aspects of group life, including inequality...
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View articletitled, Learning to Value Girls: Balanced Infant Sex Ratios at Higher Parental Education in the United States, 1969–2018
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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 549–559.
Published: 01 August 1994
...) which traditionally have had the largest Asian populations in the country. We selected these variables to represent respectively the cultural, identificational, and geographic dimensions of assimilation. In general, the findings suggest that contrary to the assimilationists' most rigid predictions, war...
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The demography of disability and the effects of immigrant history: Older Asians in the United States
Demography (2007) 44 (2): 251–263.
Published: 01 May 2007
...). These differences in interpretation may, in turn, contribute to some undetermined level of variation in reported disability across groups. However, the fact that the differences in disability we observed are not limited to the most recent arrivals or to Asians born in speci c countries suggests that cultural...
View articletitled, The demography of disability and the effects of immigrant history: Older <span class="search-highlight">Asians</span> in the United States
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1929–1951.
Published: 01 October 2022
... Latinos and Asians, which can clarify the weight of cultural and structural factors on panethnic intermarriage ( Lopez and Espiritu 1990 ). Cultural factors, such as shared language and religion, create affinity across ethnic boundaries. Structural factors, such as economic and occupational similarity...
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View articletitled, Patterns of Panethnic Intermarriage in the United States, 1980–2018
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 485–511.
Published: 26 February 2015
... sizes and their relatively similar cultural characteristics and outcomes, I combine Arab and West Asian groups into one group (Read 2004 ). Using probit coefficients, means, and proportions of the variables in the models, I then perform the Fairlie decomposition technique. 18 Table 4 shows...
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View articletitled, Ethnic Variations in Immigrant Poverty Exit and Female Employment: The Missing Link
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 491–510.
Published: 01 August 2006
... friends than white friends (5% vs. 49% of expected rates), suggesting higher levels of integration into mainstream white culture than black culture based on this measure of close friendship. This asymmetry in friendship parallels the lack of E/SE Asian black in- terracial marriages in the sample (Table 2...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1655–1685.
Published: 01 October 2021
... ). For example, Tajima and colleagues (2010) found that Asian immigrants in the United States tend to pass on to their children the core values of Asian cultures, including the importance of hard work, obedience, and helping others. Similarly, Salami et al. (2017) found that African immigrants, especially...
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View articletitled, Health of Immigrant Children: The Role of Immigrant Generation, Exogamous Family Setting, and Family Material and Social Resources
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 849–878.
Published: 01 June 2024
... of mobility. Because immigrant parents are socialized in their families in their origin countries, they bring specific cultural values and norms to the destination country ( Luthra et al. 2018 ; Polavieja 2015 ). Specifically, research on Asian Americans found that a strong cultural belief or mindset...
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View articletitled, Social Mobility Across the Pacific: An Analysis of Japanese Americans in the Continental United States
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1603–1630.
Published: 01 October 2021
... 2018 ; Skerry 2002 ). Stereotypes arising from emergent regimes also may be gendered differently than those associated with established regimes. We contend there is no part-Asian historical figure comparable to the (tragic) “mulatta” in the U.S. cultural imaginary, and the mestiza of yesteryear...
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View articletitled, Gender, Generation, and Multiracial Identification in the United States
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 459–479.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Gezin , 27 , 53 – 86 . Feliciano C. ( 2001 ). Assimilation or Enduring Racial Boundaries? Generational Differences in Intermarriage Among Asians and Latinos in the United States . Race & Society , 4 , 27 – 45 . 10.1016/S1090-9524(02)00033-5 Gilbertson G.A. , Fitzpatrick...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 443–453.
Published: 01 November 1996
... that oth- erwise might have been expected for affluent Asians. In terms of assimilation theory, it is surprising that mea- sures of cultural assimilation strongly affect Hispanic resi- dential patterns but appear to be unimportant for Asians. This result also seems inconsistent with common knowledge...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 651–675.
Published: 14 February 2012
... ethnic context, but foreign-born Asians are less likely to do so because they do not share languages, religions, and cultures with other “Asians.” Histories of conflict across some Asian countries further highlight the differences among Asian national origins. Hispanics are likely to have opposite...
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2337–2342.
Published: 25 November 2014
.... This synopsis of human migration and genetic diversification is supported by many recent studies (e.g., Li et al. 2008 ; Rosenberg et al. 2002 ) reporting that the main genetic clusters occur among Europeans/West Asians, sub-Saharan Africans, and East Asians/Pacific Islanders/American Indians. In what...
View articletitled, Recognizing a Small Amount of Superficial Genetic Differences Across African, European and <span class="search-highlight">Asian</span> Americans Helps Understand Social Construction of Race
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 393–424.
Published: 25 January 2012
... life . In J. K. Whitmore (Ed.), An introduction to Indochinese history, culture, language, and life (pp. 77 – 84 ). Ann Arbor : Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan . Harding R. K. , & Looney J. G. ( 1977 ). Problems of Southeast Asian...
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View articletitled, Mental Health Consequences of International Migration for Vietnamese Americans and the Mediating Effects of Physical Health and Social Networks: Results From a Natural Experiment Approach
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 317–336.
Published: 01 August 2001
... Rodriguez , C.E. ( 1992 ). Race, Culture, and Latino ‘Otherness’ in the 1980 Census . Social Science Quarterly , 73 , 930 – 37 . Rong , X.L. , & Grant , L. ( 1992 ). Ethnicity, Generation, and School Attainment of Asians, Hispanics, and Non-Hispanic Whites . Sociological...
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1601–1626.
Published: 10 September 2015
... policy—specifically, Asian and Eastern European countries. With economic restructuring and cultural shifts in gender norms of the 1970s through the 1990s, women in the United States experienced increases in educational and occupational attainment (Amott and Matthaei 1996 ; Cornelia and Northway...
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