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Explaining the Immigrant Health Advantage: Self-selection and Protection in Health-Related Factors Among Five Major National-Origin Immigrant Groups in the United States
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 175–200.
Published: 13 January 2017
..., and the Dominican Republic. To assess self-selection, we compare migrants, interviewed in the National Health and Interview Surveys (NHIS), with nonmigrant peers in sending nations, interviewed in the World Health Surveys. To test for protection, we contrast migrants’ changes in smoking since immigration with two...
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Just Like in Their Home Country? A Multinational Perspective on Living Arrangements of Older Immigrants in the United States
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1973–1998.
Published: 15 August 2017
... deviate from those of older adults in their home countries. The analysis combines data on immigrants from the 2008–2012 American Community Survey (ACS) with census data from three major immigrant-sending countries: Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Vietnam. Despite persistent differences from U.S.-born...
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Dual citizenship rights: do they make more and richer citizens?
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 169–191.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Francesca Mazzolari Abstract In the 1990s, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Brazil passed dual citizenship laws granting their expatriates the right to naturalize in the receiving country without losing their nationality of origin. I estimate the effects of these new laws...
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The educational enrollment of immigrant youth: A test of the segmented-assimilation hypothesis
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 317–336.
Published: 01 August 2001
..., the Dominican Republic, and Cuba). Recent Mexican immigrants who arrived as teenagers have nonenrollment rates over 40%, but Mexican youths who arrived at younger ages are only somewhat less likely to be enrolled in school than are native-born Americans. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America...
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Reproductive health and domestic violence: Are the poorest women uniquely disadvantaged?
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 293–307.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Sunita Kishor; Kiersten Johnson Abstract We use Demographic and Health Survey data from Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti to compare women in different poverty and violence categories in terms of their experience of selected reproductive health outcomes. “Poor” women are those who belong...
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The Effect of Female Education on Fertility: A Simple Explanation
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 577–595.
Published: 01 November 1981
...Anrudh K. Jain Abstract This paper investigates the structure of the relationship between female education and fertility. It is based on data published in First Country Reports of the World Fertility Surveys for eleven countries—Costa Rica, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Panama, Fiji, Korea...
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The Effects of Gendered Social Capital on U.S. Migration: A Comparison of Four Latin American Countries
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 989–1015.
Published: 08 May 2015
..., and the Dominican Republic) to the United States. The research theorizes the importance of strong and weak ties to men and women in each sending country as a product of the gender equity gap in economic participation (low/high) and incidence of female-led families (low/high). The findings reveal that ties to men...
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Predicted proportions in different living arrangements by partnership statu...
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in Just Like in Their Home Country? A Multinational Perspective on Living Arrangements of Older Immigrants in the United States
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Published: 15 August 2017
Fig. 2 Predicted proportions in different living arrangements by partnership status: Dominicans aged 60 or older residing in the United States and Dominican Republic. The predicted values are estimated from the multinomial logistic regression models in Table 3 adjusted for age, sex, education
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in The Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis, Out-Migration, and Household Change Among Venezuelans in Venezuela and Abroad
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Published: 01 June 2024
Fig. 1 Estimated growth of recent Venezuelan diaspora in top receiving countries. Estimates are from the UNHCR Data Finder ( https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/download/ ). MNP = migrants in need of international protection. DR = Dominican Republic.
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Abuses of socioeconomic and demographic data: A comment on Ekanem’s study and Janowitz’s note
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Demography (1975) 12 (2): 361–366.
Published: 01 May 1975
...Mashal Khan 8 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1975 1975 Infant Mortality Statistical Yearbook Dominican Republic Socioeconomic Development Ryukyu Island References Ekanem Ita I ( 1972 ). A Further Note on the Relation between Economic Development...
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The impact of postpartum redundant use of contraception on contraceptive failure rates
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Demography (1996) 33 (1): 24–34.
Published: 01 February 1996
... Population Association of America 1996 1996 Failure Rate Life Table Amenorrhea Dominican Republic Calendar Data References Becker, S. and S. Ahmed. 1994. “The Interaction of Breastfeeding and Contraception in Peru.” Presented at annual meetings of the Population Association of America...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 737–767.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Fig. 1 Estimated growth of recent Venezuelan diaspora in top receiving countries. Estimates are from the UNHCR Data Finder ( https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/download/ ). MNP = migrants in need of international protection. DR = Dominican Republic. ...
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Recent population trends and family planning activity in the Caribbean
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 874–893.
Published: 01 June 1968
...Jack Harewood 15 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1968 1968 Family Planning Dominican Republic Population Trend Family Planning Service Crude Death Rate References 2 Harewood Jack ( 1963 ). Population Growth in Trinidad and Tobago in the Twentieth...
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The population of Latin America
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Demography (1964) 1 (1): 15–41.
Published: 01 March 1964
... LATIN AMERICAN Country Dominican Republic Crude Birth Rate Urban Sector References 3 CEPAL ( 1961 ). Boétin Económico de América Latina , VI , 9 – 10 . 4 Inhabitants related to arable land. Source: “America en Cifraa, 1961,” Estadísticas Económicas No.2. 5 Work done at CELADE...
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Statistical and Historical Analyses of Nations Which Deviate From the Size-Density Law
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Demography (1982) 19 (4): 567–576.
Published: 01 November 1982
... and through analysis of available historical data. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1982 1982 Historical Analysis Dominican Republic Deviant Case Central African Republic Proper Unit References
Bogue Donald J. ( 1969 ). Principles of Demography . New York...
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The pattern of mortality change in Latin America
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Demography (1969) 6 (3): 223–242.
Published: 01 August 1969
... in each period: Before 1900, Brazil and Mexico; 1900-29, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; 1930-49, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela; Since 1950, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, and Peru. of these comparisons, grouped by his- torical...
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Nativity Concentration and Internal Migration among the Foreign-Born
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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 509–524.
Published: 01 August 1994
... into a seventeenth group. The 16 nativity groups include five from Europe (Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom), five from Nativity Concentration and Internal Migratiom 513 Asia (China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines), and six from the Americas (Canada, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic...
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Desired Fertility and Number of Children Born Across Time and Space
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 55–83.
Published: 19 January 2016
.... The sample size of the DHS varies between 1,500 (Dominican Republic in 1999) and more than 100,000 (India in 2006) observations. The average number of women interviewed is 10,000 women per country-year. In total, the DHS contains information for more than 2 million women. For most countries, more than one...
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Workplace Concentration of Immigrants
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2281–2306.
Published: 26 November 2014
... Guatemala 0.3 30.6 26.4 7.8 4 17 26 54 57 9 Taiwan 0.3 35.2 11.9 1.4 5 3 27 65 8 73 Haiti 0.3 32.9 19.0 1.9 18 1 22 59 42 16 Poland 0.3 31.3 19.8 3.7 9 5 16 70 23 28 Jamaica 0.3 0.9 7 1 24 68 24 28 Dominican Republic 0.3 22.9 26.0 16.8 16...
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Rural-urban mortality in developing countries: An index for detecting rural underregistration
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 98–107.
Published: 01 March 1967
... existiría subregistro de defunciones. Finalmente a efectos de confirmar la hipótesis de una más alta mortalidad en áreas rurales que en las urbanas (en estos paises en desarrollo) se analizan también los casos de India y Taiwán. Vital Statistic Dominican Republic Registry Office Crude Death Rate...
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