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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 739–763.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Carolyn Moehling; Anne Morrison Piehl Abstract The major government commissions on immigration and crime in the early twentieth century relied on evidence that suffered from aggregation bias and the absence of accurate population data, which led them to present partial and sometimes misleading...
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 51–73.
Published: 01 February 2005
... in higher-income, mostly white neighborhoods were currently living in the most-affluent neighborhoods. Families who were placed in lower-crime and suburban locations were most likely to reside in low-crime neighborhoods years later. 15 2 2011 © Population Association of America 2005 2005...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 319–340.
Published: 17 January 2018
...Ryan Brown Abstract This study examines the relationship between exposure to violent crime in utero and birth weight using longitudinal data from a household survey conducted in Mexico. Controlling for selective migration and fertility, the results suggest that early gestational exposure...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1957–1977.
Published: 12 September 2018
..., this article argues that neighborhood boundaries—defined as sharp changes in the racial or socioeconomic composition of neighborhoods—are a salient feature of the spatial structure with implications for violent crime and other outcomes. Boundaries lack the social control and cohesion of adjacent homogeneous...
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Published: 10 March 2015
Fig. 1 Crime rate and migration rate, weighted by population More
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Published: 10 March 2015
Fig. 2 Crime rates by MSA More
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 123–145.
Published: 27 January 2020
...Gerard Torrats-Espinosa Abstract This study investigates the effect of violent crime on school district–level achievement in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics. The research design exploits variation in achievement and violent crime across 813 school districts in the United States...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1177–1202.
Published: 10 June 2011
...Hope Corman; Kelly Noonan; Nancy E. Reichman; Ofira Schwartz-Soicher Abstract Other researchers have posited that important events in men’s lives—such as employment, marriage, and parenthood—strengthen their social ties and lead them to refrain from crime. A challenge in empirically testing...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 705–728.
Published: 10 March 2015
...Fig. 1 Crime rate and migration rate, weighted by population ...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 813–814.
Published: 13 May 2011
...Carolyn Moehling; Anne Morrison Piehl 3 5 2011 13 5 2011 © Population Association of America 2011 2011 Erratum to: Demography DOI 10.1353/dem.0.0076 In the November 2009 issue of Demography , in the article “Immigration, Crime, and Incarceration in Early...
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Published: 27 January 2020
Fig. 2 Cross-sectional relationship between crime and achievement. Achievement data are from the district-level estimates from the SEDA data (Reardon et al. 2016a ), and crime data are from the FBI’s UCR Program. Each dot represents a school district ( N = 813), and it measures the log mean More
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Published: 27 January 2020
Fig. 3 2SLS ELA estimates in low- and high-crime school districts. Point estimates and 95% confidence intervals are obtained from 2SLS regressions analogous to the ones used in models reported in Table 4 . These regressions are estimated separately from two sets of school districts: high-crime More
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Published: 27 January 2020
Fig. 4 2SLS estimates, by type of crime. Point estimates and 95% confidence intervals are obtained from 2SLS regressions analogous to the ones used in models reported in Tables 4 and 6 . Standard errors are clustered by school district. All models include school district fixed effects, cohort More
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1763–1789.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and segregated contexts in their daily routines compared with similarly residentially situated White youth. Specifically, we estimate Black–White differences in nonhome exposure to concentrated disadvantage, racial segregation, collective efficacy, and violent crime. We find that Black youths' activity spaces...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 55–77.
Published: 01 February 2008
... of concentrated poverty than other youths as well as lower levels of collective efficacy than white youths. Variations in neighborhood tolerance of deviance across groups explain little of the arrest disparities, yet tolerance of deviance does influence the frequency with which a crime ultimately ends...
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Demography (1997) 34 (4): 525–538.
Published: 01 November 1997
... levels of violent crime and unemployment in cities relative to suburbs also tend to spur city-to-suburb mobility or inhibit suburb-to-city moves. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1997 1997 Central City Census Tract Racial Difference Residential Mobility Metropolitan...
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Demography (1978) 15 (4): 397–432.
Published: 01 November 1978
... at above average rates, and that of older women has risen at below average rates. Changes in the age structure of the working age population have also contributed to a combination of rising unemployment and accelerating inflation. Cohort divorce rates, suicide among young males, crime rates, and political...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 823–847.
Published: 16 May 2018
... of supportive family relationships. Significant housing and family effects are estimated even after we control for drug use and crime, which are themselves negatively related to parental contact. The findings point to the constraints of material insecurity and the complexity of family relationships...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1739–1761.
Published: 01 October 2022
... one quarter and the Latino–White gap by almost one fifth. Alternatively, we explore interventions where policing is solely a function of violent crime, which close the Black–White gap by as much as one tenth. Our study advances previous research by focusing on cumulative, long-term exposure...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 395–412.
Published: 01 November 1996
... in the environment of the world’s poor, so will their exposure to crime, disease, violence. and family disruption. Meanwhile the spatial concentration of affluence will enhance the benefits and privileges of the rich. In the twenty-first century the advantages and disadvantages of one’s class position...