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Demography (1971) 8 (2): 195–204.
Published: 01 May 1971
.... The regression results suggest that differential migration by education and occupation groups may be accounted for by the varying responsiveness of the various groups to economic gains obtained through migration. While this seems to be generally true of age differentials as well, the relationship of those...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1463–1493.
Published: 18 June 2019
...Nathan Seltzer Abstract In the years since the Great Recession, social scientists have anticipated that economic recovery in the United States, characterized by gains in employment and median household income, would augur a reversal of declining fertility trends. However, the expected post...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1917–1927.
Published: 05 October 2015
... participation, and stipend-related schooling gains for lower-SES females were matched by comparable gains for higher–SES females. Meanwhile, there was no significant association between stipend participation and schooling attainment for males. In subsequent models, I include two additional interaction terms...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 673–698.
Published: 21 December 2013
..., potentially because of a reduction in the labor force available to maintain local economic activities, while poor households gain productive assets. Regardless of wealth status, households do not gain or lose consumer assets with migration or remittances. These results suggest an equalizing effect...
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 169–191.
Published: 01 February 2009
... employment and earnings gains, together with drops in welfare use, suggesting that dual citizenship rights not only increase the propensity to naturalize but may also promote economic assimilation. The effects of dual citizenship on improved economic performance, if mediated through naturalization...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1251–1275.
Published: 10 July 2017
... and residential segregation. Educational gains for the post–civil rights era cohorts and improved access to integrated neighborhoods for high school graduates and college attendees in these later cohorts were the principal source of improved residential integration over this period. Because estimates...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1247–1272.
Published: 08 July 2019
... to be employed than those who were not given vouchers. Most of these employment gains were realized by married mothers. Single mothers, in contrast, benefited by significantly reducing the time spent working without any loss to their earnings by shifting to jobs with more regular hours. The effects on other...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 961–983.
Published: 21 April 2017
... enables me to make two main contributions to the literature. First, I assess the marriage wealth premium using both measures of personal wealth and of household wealth to gain a more holistic picture of the individual-level and gender-specific consequences of marriage for economic attainment. Second...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 139–164.
Published: 18 December 2015
... neighborhood inequality since 1980 has been sizable, far exceeding the narrowing of Hispanic-white neighborhood inequality; nonetheless, despite blacks’ relative gains, the disparity in black-white neighborhood economic conditions remains very large. Asian Americans, on the other hand, now reside...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1899–1929.
Published: 09 September 2019
... of adolescent childbearing on literacy and numeracy. We hypothesize that becoming a mother soon after leaving school may cause the deterioration of skills gained in school. Using longitudinal data from Bangladesh, Malawi, and Zambia, we test our hypothesis by estimating fixed-effects linear regression models...
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Demography (2004) 41 (1): 87–107.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Mark D. Hayward; Bridget K. Gorman Abstract Increasingly, social scientists are turning to childhood to gain a better understanding of the fundamental social causes of adult mortality. However, evidence of the link between childhood and the mortality of adults is fragmentary, and the intervening...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1007–1028.
Published: 22 March 2017
... in wages is due to marriage being timed to follow economic improvements. Next, we performed two analyses to evaluate whether the premarital run-up in men’s wages is likely to be due to a causal anticipation of marriage, versus either timing marriage to follow wage gains or an unobserved latent...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 405–426.
Published: 05 March 2019
... are less stable and more uncertain among the economically disadvantaged, and uncertainty may exacerbate these disadvantages by weakening individuals’ ability to rely on family members’ support to alleviate hardship. I argue that demographers should focus on individuals’ family relationships to gain insight...
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 967–988.
Published: 08 May 2015
... group. For that purpose, in this article, we propose a simple index that measures the monetary loss or gain of a group derived from its overrepresentation in some occupations and underrepresentation in others. This index has a clear economic interpretation. It represents the per capita advantage...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 127–138.
Published: 01 February 2000
... of immigrants changed over time? How do the schooling and initial earnings of new legal immigrants com- pare with those of the U.S. native-born, foreign-born, and illegal immigrant populations? How large is the economic gain from becoming a legal immigrant? How many immi- grants return to their home country...
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Demography (1974) 11 (4): 691–694.
Published: 01 November 1974
.... The question of how large an economic pay-off is likely to result from investment in fer- tility reduction has been explored by, among others, Enke (1966) and Zaidan (1971). In both cases, their procedure was to estimate economic gains primar- ily by the discounted value of net con- sumption saved during...
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 895–921.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Economic Review , 22 , 333 – 49 . 10.2307/2526280 Mechoulan S. ( 2006 ). Divorce Laws and the Structure of the American Family . Journal of Legal Studies , 35 , 143 – 74 . 10.1086/498832 Moffitt R.A. ( 2000 ). Female Wages, Male Wages, and the Economic Gains to Marriage...
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 263–284.
Published: 01 May 2004
... size. My goal was to learn how the financial benefits to union formation and the sources of these ben- efits differ by gender. BACKGROUND Economic models of marriage (Becker 1973, 1974, 1991; Weiss 1997) demonstrate how marriage (and perhaps cohabitation) leads to financial gain. Individuals who meet...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 197–217.
Published: 23 November 2011
... allocate household labor to paid or unpaid work in order to maximize the total benefit to the household, and each migration decision is based on potential economic opportunities and costs to the entire household, rather than the potential gain of any individual member. As a consequence, migration can...
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Demography (1997) 34 (4): 467–472.
Published: 01 November 1997
..., and Kahn 1997; Burkhauser et al. 1990; Duncan and Hoffman 1985; Hoffman 1977; Hoffman and Duncan 1988; Holden and Smock 1991; Petersen 1996; Smock 1993, 1994). These re- sults indicate that women's rising employment has not, on average, eliminated the economic gains to marriage. They also suggest...
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