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The Impact of College Education on Fertility: Evidence for Heterogeneous Effects
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 863–887.
Published: 07 July 2011
... across a range of social backgrounds and levels of early achievement. Despite a substantial literature on the effects of education on women’s fertility, researchers have not assessed variation in effects by selection into college. With data on U.S. women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth...
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View articletitled, The Impact of <span class="search-highlight">College</span> <span class="search-highlight">Education</span> on Fertility: Evidence for Heterogeneous Effects
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Multigenerational reproduction of college education. We define the effect a...
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Fig. 1 Multigenerational reproduction of college education. We define the effect as the ratio of college progeny per college family over college progeny per non-college family. The ratio = 1 means no multigenerational effect
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Multigenerational reproduction of college education based on various scenar...
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Fig. 2 Multigenerational reproduction of college education based on various scenarios of mating and mobility rules. We define the effect as the ratio of college progeny per college family over college progeny per non-college family
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Gender-specific trends in the value of education and the emerging gender gap in college completion
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 February 2006
... college completion grew at a faster rate than those for men. We assess whether these trends are related to changes in the value of education for men and women in terms of earnings returns to higher education, the probability of getting and staying married, education-related differences in family standard...
View articletitled, Gender-specific trends in the value of <span class="search-highlight">education</span> and the emerging gender gap in <span class="search-highlight">college</span> completion
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 349–369.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Acton Jiashi Feng Abstract Existing research on assortative mating has examined marriage between people with different levels of education, yet heterogeneity in educational assortative mating outcomes of college graduates has been mostly ignored. Using data from the 2010 Chinese Family Panel Study...
View articletitled, Revisiting Horizontal Stratification in Higher <span class="search-highlight">Education</span>: <span class="search-highlight">College</span> Prestige Hierarchy and <span class="search-highlight">Educational</span> Assortative Mating in China
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for article titled, Revisiting Horizontal Stratification in Higher <span class="search-highlight">Education</span>: <span class="search-highlight">College</span> Prestige Hierarchy and <span class="search-highlight">Educational</span> Assortative Mating in China
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Educational attainment as a selective factor in marital status transitions in the United States
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 108–125.
Published: 01 March 1967
... for women and 21 for men). The distribution of percents single by age was about the same in all three censuses for persons with elementary schooling. A trend toward smaller proportions of the single, both men and women, among young persons with college education continued for the entire twenty-year period...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Educational</span> attainment as a selective factor in marital status transitions in the United States
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Opportunities to Meet: Occupational Education and Marriage Formation in Young Adulthood
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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...
View articletitled, Opportunities to Meet: Occupational <span class="search-highlight">Education</span> and Marriage Formation in Young Adulthood
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1571–1593.
Published: 01 August 2022
... in college-educated men in the marriage market, which is consistent with the marriage squeeze hypothesis. Second, the degree of educational hypogamy is related to the economic empowerment of college-educated women, even after accounting for the mating squeeze effect. Third, counterfactual simulations show...
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View articletitled, Is It Only a Numbers Game? A Macro-Level Study of <span class="search-highlight">Educational</span> Hypogamy
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Religious Differentials in Reproduction: the Effects of Sectarian Education
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Demography (1982) 19 (4): 495–509.
Published: 01 November 1982
...Nan E. Johnson Abstract College-educated Catholic women in the 1976 National Survey of Family Growth had higher actual and expected fertility than did college educated Protestants. Moreover, Catholic colleges or universities had a pronatalist effect on alumnae. Thus, a significant part...
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Hormonal Contraceptive Use and Discontinuation Because of Dissatisfaction: Differences by Race and Education
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1433–1452.
Published: 04 August 2012
... show that blacks and Latinas were more likely to have used injectable contraceptives (“the shot”) and less likely to have used oral contraceptives (“the pill”) than were white women. Women with less education were more likely than college-educated women to have used the shot but there were...
View articletitled, Hormonal Contraceptive Use and Discontinuation Because of Dissatisfaction: Differences by Race and <span class="search-highlight">Education</span>
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1065–1091.
Published: 01 June 2021
.... We pay particular attention to the continued socioeconomic bifurcation in women's access to full-time stable work, assessing whether changes in the education-related time gap are due to changes in who works and how much. We find that the gap in active childcare time between mothers with a college...
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View articletitled, Trends in Mothers' Parenting Time by <span class="search-highlight">Education</span> and Work From 2003 to 2017
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Spousal Mobility and Earnings
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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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Safety Net Spending on Children and the Sources of Household Income Across U.S. States, 1997–2016
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 2081–2105.
Published: 01 December 2024
... in corresponding transfer income among non-college-educated households and those in the bottom half of the income distribution; such spending is associated with no increase (or a decrease) in transfer income among college-educated households and those in the top quarter of the income distribution. These results...
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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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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 311–336.
Published: 07 December 2016
... education consistently decreases weight. These negative effects have faded over the last 20 years, and they diminish as respondents approach middle age. These trends are more prevalent for whites and Hispanics than for blacks. Longer-term effects of having a college education on weight are not identified...
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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
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Transitions From Sexual Relationships Into Cohabitation and Beyond
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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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Parental imprisonment, the prison boom, and the concentration of childhood disadvantage
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 265–280.
Published: 01 May 2009
... and 1 in 25 white children born in 1990 had a parent imprisoned; (2) 1 in 7 black children born in 1978 and 1 in 4 black children born in 1990 had a parent imprisoned; (3) inequality in the risk of parental imprisonment between white children of college-educated parents and all other children is growing...
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Immigrants and natives in U.S. science and engineering occupations, 1994–2006
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 801–820.
Published: 01 August 2010
... for the relative proportions of college graduates among migrant and native workers), and a proportional science and engineering (S&E) effect (which accounts for the relative proportions of S&Es among migrant and native college-educated workers). Results show that the migration effect explains about three...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1207–1233.
Published: 01 August 2023
... Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we identify a typology of life course trajectories of work and family and test for the interactive associations of race and ethnicity with college education for different trajectory types. While our results show statistically significant and often sizable education effects...
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View articletitled, How <span class="search-highlight">Education</span> Shapes Women's Work and Family Lives Across Race and Ethnicity
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Puzzles and further explorations in the interrelationships of successive births with husband’s income, spouses’ education and race
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Demography (1975) 12 (2): 259–274.
Published: 01 May 1975
..., but for college-educated women the effect of more income is positive. And additional income has a less positive (more negative) effect on fertility among nonwhites than among whites. 8 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1975 1975 Important Interaction Individual Parity Additional...
View articletitled, Puzzles and further explorations in the interrelationships of successive births with husband’s income, spouses’ <span class="search-highlight">education</span> and race
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Trends in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation by Educational Attainment: United States, 1990–2010
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 269–293.
Published: 26 January 2016
..., college-educated whites benefited from rising life expectancy and record low variation in age at death, consistent with the shifting mortality scenario. Among blacks, adult life expectancy increased, and S 25 plateaued or declined in nearly all educational attainment groups, although blacks generally...
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View articletitled, Trends in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation by <span class="search-highlight">Educational</span> Attainment: United States, 1990–2010
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