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Short-Term and Long-Term Educational Mobility of Families: A Two-Sex Approach
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 145–173.
Published: 05 January 2017
..., we approach this issue from both a short-term and a long-term perspective. For the short term, grandparents’ educational attainments have a direct association with grandchildren’s education as well as an indirect association that is mediated by parents’ education and demographic behaviors...
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The Eventual Frequencies of Kin in a Stable Population
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Demography (1982) 19 (4): 549–565.
Published: 01 November 1982
... © Population Association of America 1982 1982 Current Population Survey Stable Population Probability Generate Function Direct Descendant Sibship Size References
Atkins John R. ( 1974 ). On the Fundamental Consanguineal Numbers and their Structural Basis . American...
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On the theory of stable populations: A new and elementary proof of the theorems under weaker assumptions
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Demography (1969) 6 (3): 301–322.
Published: 01 August 1969
... into effect. We take N to be larger than M. This postulate (with postulate 3) as- sures us that any given cohort of women has direct descendants in at least two different cohorts; it will be discussed fully in the next section. Postulate S. There exists a positive number (2 such that P.(t) is never less than...
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1923–1948.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... Trajectories and origins: Survey on the diversity of the French population (pp. 79 – 106 ). Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature . Meurs D. , & Pailhé A. ( 2010 ). Position sur le marché du travail des descendants directs d'immigrés en France: Les femmes doublement désavantagées...
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View articletitled, Which Degree for Which Occupation? Vertical and Horizontal Mismatch Among Immigrants, Their Children, and Grandchildren in France
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Correlations between frequencies of kin
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Demography (1991) 28 (3): 391–409.
Published: 01 August 1991
... for high or low fertility to run in families. Any such tendency would serve to raise this correlation to an even higher level. Other Direct Descendants Consider next the correlation between direct descendants in generation i and in the subsequent generation i + 1. The case considered above...
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Recognizing a Small Amount of Superficial Genetic Differences Across African, European and Asian Americans Helps Understand Social Construction of Race
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2337–2342.
Published: 25 November 2014
... origin of human populations via genetic data. Starting about 100,000 years ago, anatomically modern humans migrated out of East Africa and spread gradually to South Asia, Australia, Europe, East Asia, and eventually the Americas. All people living today are direct descendants of these earlier humans...
View articletitled, Recognizing a Small Amount of Superficial Genetic Differences Across African, European and Asian Americans Helps Understand Social Construction of Race
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Asymptotic properties of a human age distribution under a continuous net maternity function
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 680–687.
Published: 01 June 1967
... survivors, direct descendants, or indirect descendants from every initial population age group, regardless of the specific age cell below the upper bound of the child- bearing span in which that group is found at the moment of starting the projection. 3 Although it is known that such a finite number...
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An elementary approach to the population projection-matrix, to the population reproductive value, and to related topics in the mathematical theory of population growth
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 382–409.
Published: 01 March 1968
... ). The Population Projection as a Matrix Operator . Demography , I , 56 – 73 . 10.2307/2060031 15 Murphy , E. M. ( 1966 ). The Latent Roots of the Population Projection Matrix . Demography , III , 259 – 75 . 10.2307/2060077 23 Pollard , J. H. ( 1966 ). On the Use of the Direct...
View articletitled, An elementary approach to the population projection-matrix, to the population reproductive value, and to related topics in the mathematical theory of population growth
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Grandchildren's Longevity and Their Grandfathers’ POW Trauma in the U.S. Civil War
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 337–361.
Published: 01 April 2024
... any marriage selection effects. I identify the sensitive transmission ages by modifying Eq. (1) for male-line grandsons: Table 3 also shows that controlling for the geographic proximity of the grandfather, a precondition for direct cultural transmission, does not change the results...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2169–2191.
Published: 01 December 2021
... 2020 ). This is not only possible for immigrants who arrive as adults, but also for the children of immigrants—both those who arrive as children and the second generation—who are the main subject of this study. Despite the lack of direct comparisons between tempo and quantum, many studies have...
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View articletitled, The Fertility of Immigrants From Low-Fertility Settings: Adaptation in the Quantum and Tempo of Childbearing?
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Demography (2025) 62 (1): 87–112.
Published: 01 February 2025
... reservation in the EU about Justice and Home Affairs, the country has not implemented the council directive on the right to family reunification for third-country nationals, allowing it to set its rules more freely than other member states (Adamo 2022 ). Denmark is the sole EU member state with a minimum age...
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View articletitled, The Demographic and Socioeconomic Consequences of Restricting Access to Marriage for Young Immigrant Women in Denmark
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Immigration and the Stable Population Model
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Demography (1982) 19 (1): 125–133.
Published: 01 February 1982
...-run extinction. The eastern portion of the country develops demographically in a more complex way. Any population that exists there must either be direct immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. Hence this population (that is, the female part of it) will consist at any time of surviving immigrant...
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Only English by the third generation? Loss and preservation of the mother tongue among the grandchildren of contemporary immigrants
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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 467–484.
Published: 01 August 2002
... of Sociology, University of Florida. Direct correspondence to Richard Alba, Department of Sociology, SUNY-Albany, Albany, NY 12222; E-mail: [email protected]. This research was supported by Grant SBR95- 07920 from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, Univer...
View articletitled, Only English by the third generation? Loss and preservation of the mother tongue among the grandchildren of contemporary immigrants
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Immigration and the American century
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 595–620.
Published: 01 November 2005
..., are not necessarily people, but sources of income. Many workers have direct or indirect income from capital through their savings, ownership of property, and pension programs. Moreover, a substantial share of ordinary workers have jobs that appear to be complementary to immigrant labor, not competitive...
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Immigrants’ ages and the structure of stationary populations with below-replacement fertility
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Demography (1992) 29 (4): 595–612.
Published: 01 November 1992
... in Figure 2. Also, the structure of entry ages affects the foreign-born proportion of the SI population through its impact on bf . These two effects work in the same direction. Older immigrants tend to generate older populations of surviving foreigners, which in tum contribute fewer native births...
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Social Mobility Across the Pacific: An Analysis of Japanese Americans in the Continental United States
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 849–878.
Published: 01 June 2024
... also have offered a direct advantage (Model 6 in Tables 2 and 3 ). The multigenerational mobility literature (e.g., Mare 2011 ) found the direct effects of grandparents’ socioeconomic status on grandchildren among some populations, especially when there is an opportunity for direct contact between...
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The fertility contribution of Mexican immigration to the United States
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Demography (2004) 41 (1): 129–150.
Published: 01 February 2004
.... Accumulating Observed Births From 1982 to 1999 and Projected Births From 2000 to 2040 The 1995 2040 projections estimate the number of direct and descendant-generation births to Mexican-born woman after the base year. An estimate that speaks more to the total impact of recent decades of Mexican immigration...
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Immigration, below-replacement fertility, and long-term national population trends
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 121–129.
Published: 01 February 1990
... at that age remains less than 4 per 1,000. So the derivative must vanish shortly after age 0 and may remain positive thereafter only to vanish again at an advanced age. In the case of U.S. females, that will not happen before the age of 45. Attention of the national planners should be directed toward...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1173–1194.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., closed to migration. A first set of results highlighted the potential of kinship structures to exacerbate the exposure to death in the context of a mortality crisis. One in three members of the population of Rio Negro were massacred in 1982. Direct excess mortality was evenly distributed by age, sex...
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The new census question about ancestry: What did it tell us?
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Demography (1991) 28 (3): 411–429.
Published: 01 August 1991
... abroad-that is, first-generation immigrants-were more likely to respond than those born in the United States. The net effect of schooling was strong and in the anticipated direction. Consider, for example, two groups of native-born white men aged 45 to 54 who live in the south. If one group had college...
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