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Causal Impact of Having a College Degree on Women’s Fertility: Evidence From Regression Kink Designs
Demography (2019) 56 (3): 969–990.
Published: 21 March 2019
... administered by Statistics Korea. To account for the endogeneity of education, this study exploits the Korean higher education reform initiated in 1993 that boosted women’s likelihood of graduating from college. Based on regression kink designs, we find that having a college degree reduces the likelihood...
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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
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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
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in Revealing the Concealed Effect of Top Earnings on the Gender Gap in the Economic Value of Higher Education in the United States, 1980–2017
> Demography
Published: 01 April 2021
Fig. 1 Wage differences between workers with and without a college degree, by gender: mean (panel a) and median (panel b) weekly wage (in 2017 U.S. dollars)
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in Revealing the Concealed Effect of Top Earnings on the Gender Gap in the Economic Value of Higher Education in the United States, 1980–2017
> Demography
Published: 01 April 2021
Fig. 1 Wage differences between workers with and without a college degree, by gender: mean (panel a) and median (panel b) weekly wage (in 2017 U.S. dollars)
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 523–533.
Published: 01 November 2000
...Steven P. Martin Abstract In this paper I examine the evolving association between educational attainment and the timing of births. In the late 1970s, women with four-year college degrees had lower first birth rates before age 30 than women with less education, but rates of first births were...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1773–1793.
Published: 06 September 2017
... is instrumented with the sex mix of their first two children. We find that having additional children causes sizable reductions in labor supply for women, which fade as children mature and even turn positive for women without a college degree. Among women with a college degree, there is evidence of persistent...
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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 445–460.
Published: 01 November 1999
... selectivity for those with a bachelor s or higher degree, adjusting for age, sex, race, marital status, and parental education. The credential of a college degree has no net association with physical functioning and perceived health beyond the amount attributable to the additional years of schooling...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 349–369.
Published: 01 February 2022
... institutions are less likely than graduates of lower-ranked colleges to marry someone without a college degree. Moreover, from 1980 to 2010, female first-tier-college graduates were increasingly more likely to marry people who graduated from similarly prestigious colleges, although there is insufficient...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1319–1344.
Published: 01 July 2014
...David McClendon; Janet Chen-Lan Kuo; R. Kelly Raley Abstract Explanations for the positive association between education and marriage in the United States emphasize the economic and cultural attractiveness of having a college degree in the marriage market. However, educational attainment may also...
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 829–849.
Published: 01 November 2008
... the husband’s and wife’s occupations affect the household migration decision, but mobility in the husband’s occupation matters considerably more. For couples in which the husband has a college degree (regardless of the wife’s educational level), a husband’s mobility has a large, significant negative effect...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1433–1452.
Published: 04 August 2012
... no significant education differences in use of the pill. Among women who had ever used hormonal birth control, those with less than a college degree were more likely than college-educated women to discontinue the birth control because of dissatisfaction. However, net of education, this study found no significant...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1065–1091.
Published: 01 June 2021
... degree and those without has closed dramatically. Although some of this narrowing was driven by declines in time among college-educated mothers, most was driven by increases among mothers with less education. These trends, however, are observed only among mothers who were not employed full-time. Blinder...
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 511–534.
Published: 15 February 2018
... backgrounds significantly less likely to cohabit, but those who do cohabit enter shared living at significantly slower tempos than women whose mothers lacked a college degree. In addition, among sexual relationships that transitioned into cohabiting unions, college-educated women were significantly more...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1117–1142.
Published: 01 June 2022
... to examine the relationship between birth intervals and short- and long-term outcomes: preterm birth, low birth weight (LBW), infant mortality, college degree attainment, occupational status, and adult mortality. Using linear regression, linear probability models, and survival analysis, we compare results...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 921–935.
Published: 15 June 2016
.... With data on two cohabiting cohorts from the NSFG 1995 and 2006–2010, the current study finds that marriage rates among cohabitors have declined steeply among those with no college degree, resulting in growing educational disparities over time. Moreover, there are no differences in marital intentions...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 23–33.
Published: 01 March 1968
... aged 18-14 years enrolled in school has been falling further behin the proportion of whites in the same age group since 1955. This trend, if continued, will lead to increasing disproportions of whites and nonwhites with college degrees. Unless the gap in educational level between whites and nonwhites...
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Demography (1996) 33 (3): 277–290.
Published: 01 August 1996
... show that women with college degrees experienced dramatic shifts toward later ages of childbearing. This shift is consistent with arguments we develop about the increased opportunity for women to pursue careers and about changes in the availability of child care 14 1 2011 © Population...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 1101–1130.
Published: 10 April 2014
...; and compare the observed subgroup sizes in 2000 with the sizes expected based on 1990 counts. The largest numerical increases were among adolescent and middle-aged non-Latinos, non-Latino women, and adults with no college degree. Latinos, women, highly educated adults, and people born in Eastern states had...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 379–399.
Published: 21 March 2015
... is more pronounced among couples in which neither partner has a college degree and in which there is a child. In other respects, proximity to parents is gender-neutral, with the two partners having equal influence on intergenerational proximity. Better-educated couples live farther from their parents...
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