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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 177–185.
Published: 01 May 2001
... Population Association of America 2001 2001 African American Woman Black Immigrant Caribbean Black International Migration Review Exogamy Rate References Alba , R. , & Nee , V. ( 1997 ). Rethinking Assimilation for a New Era of Immigration . International Migration Review...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 2009–2017.
Published: 01 October 2021
... or increasing racial inequality in the late twentieth century, disparities between Black/African American and White children began to decrease in the twenty-first century in nearly every state, closing entirely in several Southern states but remaining wide outside the South. In many Midwestern and Western...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1203–1229.
Published: 25 June 2011
... where African Americans live? Are blacks’ preferences for racially mixed neighborhoods the result of integrationist social values, or do they stem from the fact that mixed neighborhoods offer class-based improvements in quality of life compared with predominantly black neighborhoods? Previous studies...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1821–1841.
Published: 15 October 2014
... is lower for more-educated black mothers than for less-educated black mothers, and the differences widen with age. This is consistent with the extant literature on the weathering hypothesis, showing that the increase in rates of LBW with maternal age is more pronounced among disadvantaged African American...
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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 427–458.
Published: 01 August 1994
... constructed African-American death rates may be seriously flawed as early as age 50. Using the crude death rate at ages 50+ for 1978-1982 in conjunction with estimated growth rates and two model life table systems, the authors estimate black age-specific death rates in 1978–1982. These results suggest...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 949–974.
Published: 30 April 2014
... for African American and white families. Overall, we estimate that the African American shortfall in large gifts and inheritances accounts for 12 % of the white-black racial wealth gap. 18 3 2014 30 4 2014 © Population Association of America 2014 2014 In this model, is the family...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 139–164.
Published: 18 December 2015
... for 1980–2010, we find that the neighborhoods where whites and minorities reside have become more alike in terms of neighborhood poverty and median income, largely because whites now live in poorer neighborhoods and because African Americans live in less-poor neighborhoods. The narrowing of black-white...
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Selection, Language Heritage, and the Earnings Trajectories of Black Immigrants in the United States
Demography (2014) 51 (3): 975–1002.
Published: 23 May 2014
...Tod G. Hamilton Abstract Research suggests that immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean surpass the earnings of U.S.-born blacks approximately one decade after arriving in the United States. Using data from the 1980–2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005–2007 American Community Surveys on U.S.-born...
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 February 1999
...-white segregation is necessary for whites to maintain low neighborhood contact with blacks, even when the proportion of African Americans is small. 26 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1999 1999 HOW LOW CAN IT GO? DECLINING BLACK-WHITE SEGREGATION IN A MULTIETHNIC CONTEXr LAUREN...
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Demography (1997) 34 (4): 539–550.
Published: 01 November 1997
... immigrants in New York and black female immigrants in London hold more favorable occupational status. These results reflect differences in (1) the presence of indigenous minorities—African Americans and Puerto Ricans—in New York but not London, and (2) the relatively low position of indigenous minority males...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 603–614.
Published: 01 November 1994
...Karin L. Brewster Abstract Previous studies report that neighborhood characteristics influence pregnancy and childbearing risk among African-American adolescent women. These studies, however, leave unidentified the effects of many neighborhood properties on the proximate determinants of nonmarital...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2253–2277.
Published: 02 December 2019
... in the labor market change across cohorts of the population. Ample research has found that although the earnings disadvantage among African American men declined in the aftermath of the Civil Rights movement, the black-white earnings gap has stagnated since 1980 despite labor market regulations and public...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 615–631.
Published: 01 November 1994
... different histories of whites and African-Americans in the south. Our findings suggest that unicausal explanations for the persistence of high fertility are too simplistic; all three theoretical perspectives receive empirical support. Considerable similarity is observed in the findings for blacks...
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 1992
... African-American women in the U.S. Census of 1910. It compares the reported prevalence of widowhood to estimates of widowhood based on the mortality of black men and on the ages of women at first marriage. It also compares the reported distributions of duration of first marriage to estimates based...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 889–912.
Published: 09 May 2012
... than African Americans and Latinos who leave home and leave the city. The bottom panel of Fig. 1 examines trajectories of change in neighborhood percentage black. The racial segregation that characterizes Chicago is immediately apparent from the figure: African Americans occupy neighborhoods...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 241–265.
Published: 03 March 2011
... with a disadvantaged health status—a result that in general was robust for adjustment for sociodemographic characteristics. Hispanics who self-identify as black/African American may do so for a variety of reasons. These include having a non-Hispanic black parent (Logan 2004 ), phenotype/skin color (Rodríguez...
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1513–1542.
Published: 25 August 2015
... identified in the ACS. We also control for self-identified race: black, white, Asian, and other. We code everyone who self-identified as black/African American or black/African American and another race as black; those who self-identified only as white as white; those who self-identified as Asian...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 889–914.
Published: 03 June 2011
... © Population Association of America 2011 2011 Gender Educational attainment Black/African American Race “We have more work to do when more young black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across America.” In June 2007, then–U.S. Presidential candidate...
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 381–393.
Published: 01 August 2000
... categories (American Indian or Alaskan native, Asian, black or African American, native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and white) and two ethnic categories (Hispanic or Latino and not Hispanic or Latino). In the 2000 census, respondents were able to indicate their membership in one or more racial cat...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1791–1819.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... , & Caldwell C. H. ( 2021 ). Racism, diminished returns of socioeconomic resources, and Black middle-income children's health paradox . JAMA Pediatrics , 175 , 1287 – 1288 . Assari S. , Cochran S. D. , & Mays V. M . ( 2021 ). Money protects White but not African American men...
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