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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 643–668.
Published: 21 March 2018
... specifications that address potential endogeneity of program placement and instrument validity. 28 02 2018 21 03 2018 © Population Association of America 2018 2018 Early childbearing Female education Cognitive skills Family planning Madagascar Fertility decisions can affect...
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View articletitled, Early Childbearing, School Attainment, and <span class="search-highlight">Cognitive</span> <span class="search-highlight">Skills</span>: Evidence From Madagascar
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Published: 01 June 2021
Fig. 1 Sibling correlations in cognitive skills. The 95% confidence intervals are bound to vary between 0 and 1. Sources: Germany: Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Norway: Registers. Sweden: Registers. United States: Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and National Longitudinal Study
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1715–1742.
Published: 13 September 2017
...Osea Giuntella; Wei Han; Fabrizio Mazzonna Abstract This study analyzes the effects of sleep duration on cognitive skills and depression symptoms of older workers in urban China. Cognitive skills and mental health have been associated with sleep duration and are known to be strongly related...
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View articletitled, Circadian Rhythms, Sleep, and <span class="search-highlight">Cognitive</span> <span class="search-highlight">Skills</span>: Evidence From an Unsleeping Giant
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for article titled, Circadian Rhythms, Sleep, and <span class="search-highlight">Cognitive</span> <span class="search-highlight">Skills</span>: Evidence From an Unsleeping Giant
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Published: 15 January 2020
Fig. 3 Reduced-form effect on cognitive and noncognitive skills, based on the full sample. Dark squares and the dark solid line show linear trends based on the birth month. Gray x’s and the dashed gray line show linear trends based on the week of birth. Source: NEPS Starting Cohort 4.
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 675–703.
Published: 26 March 2020
...Jared N. Schachner; Robert J. Sampson Abstract Highly skilled parents deploy distinct strategies to cultivate their children’s development, but little is known about how parental cognitive skills interact with metropolitan opportunity structures and residential mobility to shape a major domain...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Skill</span>-Based Contextual Sorting: How Parental <span class="search-highlight">Cognition</span> and Residential Mobility Produce Unequal Environments for Children
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1011–1037.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Fig. 1 Sibling correlations in cognitive skills. The 95% confidence intervals are bound to vary between 0 and 1. Sources: Germany: Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Norway: Registers. Sweden: Registers. United States: Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and National Longitudinal Study...
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View articletitled, Sibling Similarity in Education Across and Within Societies
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 747–772.
Published: 14 January 2012
... whose mothers work full-time and/or have fluctuating work schedules also exhibit significantly higher levels of behavior problems. However, full-time work has negative consequences for children only when it is in jobs that do not require cognitive skills. Such negative consequences are completely offset...
View articletitled, Employment Patterns of Less-<span class="search-highlight">Skilled</span> Workers: Links to Children’s Behavior and Academic Progress
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 597–621.
Published: 15 April 2016
... stress, and neighborhood characteristics to examine if these factors mediate the effects of income. Using dynamic panel data, we find that family income is significantly associated with children’s cognitive skills but not with noncognitive skills. Mother’s education, parent’s physical and mental health...
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View articletitled, Family Income and Child <span class="search-highlight">Cognitive</span> and Noncognitive Development in Australia: Does Money Matter?
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1791–1813.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of the home environments mothers provide for their preschool-age children. Using empirical methods designed to identify plausibly causal effects, we estimate the effects of welfare reform on validated survey and observational measures of maternal behaviors that support children's cognitive skills...
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View articletitled, Welfare Reform and the Quality of Young Children's Home Environments
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1573–1596.
Published: 09 September 2014
... and cognitive skills/noncognitive skills. Fourth, a large part of the estimated body-size penalty reflects lower skill acquisition among overweight and obese teenagers. Taken together, these results reinforce the importance of policy combating early-life obesity in order to reduce healthcare expenditures...
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View articletitled, Body Size, <span class="search-highlight">Skills</span>, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 361–389.
Published: 06 January 2017
... = 3,065) to estimate the heterogeneous relationship between paternal incarceration and children’s problem behaviors (internalizing behaviors, externalizing behaviors, and early juvenile delinquency) and cognitive skills (reading comprehension, math comprehension, and verbal ability) in middle childhood...
View articletitled, The Unequal Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 61–98.
Published: 15 January 2020
...Fig. 3 Reduced-form effect on cognitive and noncognitive skills, based on the full sample. Dark squares and the dark solid line show linear trends based on the birth month. Gray x’s and the dashed gray line show linear trends based on the week of birth. Source: NEPS Starting Cohort 4. ...
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View articletitled, Does Starting Universal Childcare Earlier Influence Children’s <span class="search-highlight">Skill</span> Development?
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 59–82.
Published: 27 December 2017
... degree before they were born. To answer these questions, we draw on a nationally representative sample of mothers and children participating in the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLSY79 and CNLY), random- and fixed-effects techniques, and repeated measures of children’s cognitive and noncognitive skills...
View articletitled, Can Increased Educational Attainment Among Lower-Educated Mothers Reduce Inequalities in Children’s <span class="search-highlight">Skill</span> Development?
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 41–51.
Published: 01 February 2000
... . Demography , 34 , 239 – 49 . 10.2307/2061702 Farkas , G. , & Vicknair , K. ( 1996 ). Appropriate Tests of Racial Wage Discrimination Require Controls for Cognitive Skill: Comment on Cancio, Evans, and Maume . American Sociological Review , 61 , 557 – 60 . 10.2307/2096392...
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 777–800.
Published: 01 August 2010
... in Math: Its Possible Origins in Neighborhood Effects . American Sociological Review , 59 , 822 – 38 . 10.2307/2096370 Farkas G. , England P. , Vicknar K. , & Kilbourne B.S. ( 1997 ). Cognitive Skill, Skill Demands of Jobs, and Earnings Among Young European American...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1225–1249.
Published: 01 July 2014
... calorie consumption. We also show that education attainment is likely to foster productive and allocative efficiency of individuals in the context of BMI formation. Given that the literature suggests that education fosters development of cognition, self-control, and a variety of skills and abilities...
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1275–1298.
Published: 01 August 2022
... neighborhoods is widely believed to shape socioeconomic disparities in cognitive skills ( Jencks and Mayer 1990 ; Sharkey and Faber 2014 ). Few studies of neighborhood effects, however, focus on early childhood, even though this is the developmental period when cognitive disparities first emerge ( Minh et al...
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View articletitled, Toxic Neighborhoods: The Effects of Concentrated Poverty and Environmental Lead Contamination on Early Childhood Development
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Family Income Has Only Weak Effects on Cognitive Scores in Australia: A Comment on Khanam and Nghiem
Demography (2017) 54 (2): 801–807.
Published: 06 March 2017
... SES indicators are commonly used in analyses of cognitive skills and student achievement. The final models in the analyses of PPVT and MR scores include the respective prior cognitive skill measure. The analyses of student achievement include a measure of cognitive ability from combining PPVT and MR...
View articletitled, Family Income Has Only Weak Effects on <span class="search-highlight">Cognitive</span> Scores in Australia: A Comment on Khanam and Nghiem
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 419–450.
Published: 01 April 2021
... ). The technology of skill formation . American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings , 97 , 31 – 47 . Cunha F. , & Heckman J. J. ( 2008 ). Formulating, identifying and estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation . Journal of Human Resources , 43 , 738...
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View articletitled, The Impact of Center-Based Childcare Attendance on Early Child Development: Evidence From the French Elfe Cohort
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A new look at the determinants of nonnumeric response to desired family size: The case of Costa Rica
Demography (1993) 30 (2): 159–174.
Published: 01 May 1993
... methods of or contraceptive use in general Individual Characteristics A. Cognitive skills: ability to understand and respond to hypothetical questions 1. Level of education 2. Wantedness of last birth B. Reproductive control behavior 1. Current use of contraception 2. Type of Method C. Reproductive...
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