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Proportion of 26- to 28-year-olds completing some college and college, given some college, by race. Data are from the 1940–2000 IPUMS

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in The Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment: Historical Trends and Racial Comparisons > Demography
Published: 03 June 2011
Fig. 5 Proportion of 26- to 28-year-olds completing some college and college, given some college, by race. Data are from the 1940–2000 IPUMS More
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Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on College Entrance Exams and College Attendance: Random Assignment in Seoul High Schools

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Hyunjoon Park, Jere R. Behrman, Jaesung Choi
Demography (2013) 50 (2): 447–469.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0157-1
Published: 17 October 2012
... assignment of students into single-sex versus coeducational high schools—to assess causal effects of single-sex schools on college entrance exam scores and college attendance. Our validation of the random assignment shows comparable socioeconomic backgrounds and prior academic achievement of students...
View articletitled, Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on <span class="search-highlight">College</span> Entrance Exams and <span class="search-highlight">College</span> Attendance: Random Assignment in Seoul High Schools View PDF for article titled, Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on <span class="search-highlight">College</span> Entrance Exams and <span class="search-highlight">College</span> Attendance: Random Assignment in Seoul High Schools
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College as a Great Equalizer? Marriage and Assortative Mating Among First- and Continuing-Generation College Students

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Michael D. King
Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2265–2289.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9461389
Published: 01 December 2021
...Michael D. King Abstract College has been hailed as a “great equalizer” that can substantially reduce the influence of parents' socioeconomic status on their children's subsequent life chances. Do the equalizing effects of college extend beyond the well-studied economic outcomes to other dimensions...
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Addendum to “The Effects of College on Weight: Examining the ‘Freshman 15’ Myth and Other Effects of College Over the Life Cycle”

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Charles L. Baum, II
Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1947.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0582-2
Published: 03 August 2017
... the NLSY 1997 cohort to examine the effects of college attendance on weight gain for college students. They found that freshmen gain several pounds during their first year of college, but this is only about one-half pound more than similarly aged noncollege students gain. Second, Von Hippel and Lynch...
View articletitled, Addendum to “The Effects of <span class="search-highlight">College</span> on Weight: Examining the ‘Freshman 15’ Myth and Other Effects of <span class="search-highlight">College</span> Over the Life Cycle” View PDF for article titled, Addendum to “The Effects of <span class="search-highlight">College</span> on Weight: Examining the ‘Freshman 15’ Myth and Other Effects of <span class="search-highlight">College</span> Over the Life Cycle”
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The Effects of College on Weight: Examining the “Freshman 15” Myth and Other Effects of College Over the Life Cycle

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Charles L. Baum, II
Demography (2017) 54 (1): 311–336.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0530-6
Published: 07 December 2016
...Charles L. Baum, II Abstract This study examines the effects of college on weight over much of the life cycle. I compare weights for college students with their weights before and after college and with the weights of noncollege peers using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY...
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View articletitled, The Effects of <span class="search-highlight">College</span> on Weight: Examining the “Freshman 15” Myth and Other Effects of <span class="search-highlight">College</span> Over the Life Cycle View PDF for article titled, The Effects of <span class="search-highlight">College</span> on Weight: Examining the “Freshman 15” Myth and Other Effects of <span class="search-highlight">College</span> Over the Life Cycle
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College enrollment rate and share of four-year college graduates, by year.

College enrollment rate and share of four-year college graduates, by year.

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in Causal Impact of Having a College Degree on Women’s Fertility: Evidence From Regression Kink Designs > Demography
Published: 21 March 2019
Fig. 1 College enrollment rate and share of four-year college graduates, by year. More
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Fig. 3 Trends in college enrollment and college degree completion given enrollment, by race/ethnicity and gender

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in Latina/o Postsecondary Education: Trends in Racial/Ethnic Education Gaps and the Role of Citizenship in Access to Higher Education > Demography
Published: 01 December 2022
Fig. 3 Trends in college enrollment and college degree completion given enrollment, by race/ethnicity and gender More
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Fig. 6 Trends in Latina/o college enrollment and college degree completion given enrollment, by citizenship and gender

Trends in Latina/o college enrollment and college degree completion given e...

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in Latina/o Postsecondary Education: Trends in Racial/Ethnic Education Gaps and the Role of Citizenship in Access to Higher Education > Demography
Published: 01 December 2022
Fig. 6 Trends in Latina/o college enrollment and college degree completion given enrollment, by citizenship and gender More
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Weight of college and noncollege students

Weight of college and noncollege students

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in The Effects of College on Weight: Examining the “Freshman 15” Myth and Other Effects of College Over the Life Cycle > Demography
Published: 07 December 2016
Fig. 1 Weight of college and noncollege students More
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Weight changes for college and noncollege students

Weight changes for college and noncollege students

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in The Effects of College on Weight: Examining the “Freshman 15” Myth and Other Effects of College Over the Life Cycle > Demography
Published: 07 December 2016
Fig. 2 Weight changes for college and noncollege students More
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Difference in differences: Choice of college major and age at immigration. Figures plot smoothed polynomials of regression-adjusted z scores, adjusted for age, gender, race, and year of observation. See the text for details

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in Economic Assimilation and Skill Acquisition: Evidence From the Occupational Sorting of Childhood Immigrants > Demography
Published: 17 March 2017
Fig. 2 Difference in differences: Choice of college major and age at immigration. Figures plot smoothed polynomials of regression-adjusted z scores, adjusted for age, gender, race, and year of observation. See the text for details More
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Top minus bottom income quintile differences in children’s college attendance and completion rates: Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Dotted line shows gaps in college attendance (completion) between children in the top and bottom quintiles of the income distribution for all PSID cohorts. Solid line shows lowess-based trends across all years of data; dashed line shows lowess-based trend for data in the second half of the period. Analyses in Table S1 (Online Resource 1) show that the gap in college attendance and completion rose between the first and second half of the period

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in Increasing Inequality in Parent Incomes and Children’s Schooling > Demography
Published: 01 August 2017
Fig. 2 Top minus bottom income quintile differences in children’s college attendance and completion rates: Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Dotted line shows gaps in college attendance (completion) between children in the top and bottom quintiles of the income distribution for all PSID cohorts More
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Predicted Nelson-Aalen cumulative hazard of marital birth among college women with and without student debt, weighted by propensity score. Results are adjusted for marginal treatment effects

Predicted Nelson-Aalen cumulative hazard of marital birth among college wom...

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in Racial and Ethnic Variation in the Relationship Between Student Loan Debt and the Transition to First Birth > Demography
Published: 08 January 2018
Fig. 1 Predicted Nelson-Aalen cumulative hazard of marital birth among college women with and without student debt, weighted by propensity score. Results are adjusted for marginal treatment effects More
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Predicted Nelson-Aalen cumulative hazard of nonmarital birth among college women with and without student debt, weighted by propensity score. Results are adjusted for marginal treatment effects

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in Racial and Ethnic Variation in the Relationship Between Student Loan Debt and the Transition to First Birth > Demography
Published: 08 January 2018
Fig. 2 Predicted Nelson-Aalen cumulative hazard of nonmarital birth among college women with and without student debt, weighted by propensity score. Results are adjusted for marginal treatment effects More
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Predicted cohort-specific earnings trajectories among college graduates. EBB = Early Baby Boomers. LBB = Late Baby Boomers. GenX = Generation X. Data are from the SIPP matched to more than 40 years of longitudinal earnings and benefit records compiled at the SSA.

Predicted cohort-specific earnings trajectories among college graduates. EB...

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in Educational Variations in Cohort Trends in the Black-White Earnings Gap Among Men: Evidence From Administrative Earnings Data > Demography
Published: 02 December 2019
Fig. 3 Predicted cohort-specific earnings trajectories among college graduates. EBB = Early Baby Boomers. LBB = Late Baby Boomers. GenX = Generation X. Data are from the SIPP matched to more than 40 years of longitudinal earnings and benefit records compiled at the SSA. More
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Years of life expectancy gained and change in college graduates by city, 1988–2015. Sources: Life expectancy based on authors calculations from National Vital Statistics System data. Increase in college graduates from 1990 decennial census and 2011–2015 ACS.

Years of life expectancy gained and change in college graduates by city, 19...

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in Life and Death in the American City: Men’s Life Expectancy in 25 Major American Cities From 1990 to 2015 > Demography
Published: 01 November 2019
Fig. 4 Years of life expectancy gained and change in college graduates by city, 1988–2015. Sources: Life expectancy based on authors calculations from National Vital Statistics System data. Increase in college graduates from 1990 decennial census and 2011–2015 ACS. More
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Institutional Context Shapes the Physical Health of College Graduates Differently for U.S. White, Black, and Hispanic Adults

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Lauren Gaydosh, Kathleen Mullan Harris
Demography (2024) 61 (3): 933–966.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11380743
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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Fig. 1 Predicted cardiometabolic risk scores by college completion for White, Black, and Hispanic adults

Predicted cardiometabolic risk scores by college completion for White, Blac...

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in Institutional Context Shapes the Physical Health of College Graduates Differently for U.S. White, Black, and Hispanic Adults > Demography
Published: 01 June 2024
Fig. 1 Predicted cardiometabolic risk scores by college completion for White, Black, and Hispanic adults More
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Fig. 4 alt-text: Two panels of bar charts illustrating the relationship between nonresident parent wealth (x-axis) and educational attainment (y-axis). Darker gray bars display results from an unadjusted model, and lighter gray bars display results from an adjusted model. The first panel shows that children whose nonresident parent occupies the highest wealth quartile are more likely to attend college than children whose nonresident parent occupies the lowest three wealth quartiles, although differences are not statistically significant. The second panel shows that children whose nonresident parent occupies the highest wealth quartile are more likely to earn a bachelor's degree than children whose nonresident parent occupies the lowest wealth quartile.

College attendance and bachelor's degree attainment by nonresident parent w...

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in Nonresident Parent Wealth Among Children > Demography
Published: 01 February 2025
Fig. 4 College attendance and bachelor's degree attainment by nonresident parent wealth quartile. N  = 1,365 for panel a and 1,022 for panel b. Analyses are weighted using the child's individual longitudinal weight and are clustered on the PSID family of origin. The unadjusted model controls More
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Financially Overextended: College Attendance as a Contributor to Foreclosures During the Great Recession

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Jacob W. Faber, Peter M. Rich
Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1727–1748.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0702-7
Published: 06 August 2018
... to college were financially overextended and vulnerable to foreclosure as the economy contracted. With commuting zone panel data from 2006 to 2011, we show that increasing rates of college attendance across the income distribution in one year predict a foreclosure rate increase in subsequent years, net...
View articletitled, Financially Overextended: <span class="search-highlight">College</span> Attendance as a Contributor to Foreclosures During the Great Recession View PDF for article titled, Financially Overextended: <span class="search-highlight">College</span> Attendance as a Contributor to Foreclosures During the Great Recession
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