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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 551–570.
Published: 01 April 2021
...). Education premium Gender inequality Returns to education Glass ceiling Devaluation One of the most prominent changes in the U.S. labor market over recent decades is the rising economic value of education, especially college education. This rise has been accompanied by an impressive rise...
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1383–1407.
Published: 23 June 2015
... and Program Participation Economic returns to college Semi-synthetic cohort estimation The financial returns to education have received much attention from scholars, policy analysts, and media commentators. A recurrent issue is the lifetime economic return of having a college degree. This concern...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1743–1772.
Published: 15 August 2017
... Review of Sociology , 34 , 237 – 255 . 10.1146/annurev.soc.34.040507.134627 Long M. C. ( 2010 ). Changes in the returns to education and college quality . Economics of Education Review , 29 , 338 – 347 . 10.1016/j.econedurev.2009.10.005 Lundberg S. J. , Pollak R...
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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...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1705–1725.
Published: 06 September 2018
... and move through adulthood. 1 One dimension of this support that has recently received a great deal of attention is the parent’s contribution to a child’s college education—attention spurred in part by the substantial increases in both college tuition and in the returns accruing to a college education...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 933–966.
Published: 01 June 2024
.... M. , & Frisvold D. E. ( 2014 ). The long run health returns to college quality . Review of Economics of the Household , 12 , 295 – 325 . Flippen C . ( 2004 ). Unequal returns to housing investments? A study of real housing appreciation among Black, White, and Hispanic...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 863–887.
Published: 07 July 2011
..., formulating theoretical postulations accordingly. One theory is that individuals who have the highest economic returns to college are rationally the most likely to select into college (Becker 1964 ; Carneiro et al. 2010 ; Mincer 1974 ; Willis and Rosen 1979 ). It is less clear what this comparative...
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 821–844.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Change After Major Hurricanes . Social Forces , 86 , 1415 – 53 . 10.1353/sof.0.0047 Paxson C. , & Rouse C.E. ( 2008 ). Returning to New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina . American Economic Review , 98 ( 2 ), 38 – 42 . 10.1257/aer.98.2.38 Peacock W.G...
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 335–343.
Published: 01 May 2007
... . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Behrman , J. , & Rosenzweig , M. ( 2004 ). Returns to Birth Weight . Review of Economics and Statistics , 86 , 586 – 601 . 10.1162/003465304323031139 Boardman , J.D. , Powers , D.A. , Padilla , Y.C. , & Hummer , R.A...
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 339–350.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Patricia B. Reagan; Randall J. Olsen Abstract In this paper we analyze the economic and demographic factors that influence return migration, focusing on generation 1.5 immigrants. Using longitudinal data from the 1979 youth cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLSY79), we track residential...
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1431–1461.
Published: 02 October 2015
... of Economics , 122 , 409 – 439 . 10.1162/qjec.122.1.409 . Bound , J. , & Turner , S. E. ( 1999 ). Going to war and going to college: Did World War II and the G.I. Bill increase educational attainment for returning veterans? (NBER Working Paper No. 7452). Cambridge, MA : National...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 59–82.
Published: 27 December 2017
... to school following the transition to motherhood . Social Forces , 73 , 1517 – 1551 . 10.1093/sf/73.4.1517 . Brand , J. E. , & Xie , Y. ( 2010 ). Who benefits most from college? Evidence for negative selection in heterogeneous economic returns to higher education . American...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 285–320.
Published: 14 January 2019
... Comparison Group Part-Time Early Return Late Return Nonemp. Early Return Late Return Nonemp. Late Return Nonemp. Nonemp. Human Capital Education (ref. = high school) <High school –0.04 0.46 0.84* 1.18** * (0.48) (0.36) (0.40) (0.37) Some college 0.31...
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Demography (1969) 6 (1): 13–16.
Published: 01 February 1969
... of the period (1955) can be obtained. A sizeable number of the “migrants,” especially the young and well educated, identified in the 1960 Censuses must be persons who were in the armed forces or away at college in 1955 and, by 1960, had completed their military service or their education and returned...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1487–1506.
Published: 25 June 2018
... of DACA on the college attendance of undocumented students offers insight into how temporary work permits can affect the socioeconomic integration and well-being of their recipients. Do temporary work permits raise the returns to schooling and encourage college attendance? Or does the short planning...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 809–835.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of migration to the United States during the twentieth century. Theoretical frameworks point to opposing expectations regarding the economic selection mechanism of voluntary return, complicating hypothesis building. Voluntary return migration can be considered the result of failed economic integration ( Todaro...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1147–1173.
Published: 11 April 2017
... ) without realizing many of the labor market returns associated with the completion of credentials (Grubb 2002 ). Blacks are more likely than whites, and black women are more likely than black men, to be in this liminal status of having some college education but no degree. Among those aged 25–29 in 2015...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 469–492.
Published: 01 August 2009
... in inequality among men and women and between racial groups. Increasing returns to skill, economic restructuring, de- clines in government sector work, and the rise of part-time or nonstandard work have all been posited to in uence wage inequality (e.g., Bernhardt et al. 2001; Grodsky and Pager 2001; Kalleberg...
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 323–338.
Published: 01 August 2000
... because better jobs are available on the mainland. Employment, human capital, family structure, and public assistance cannot completely explain observed differences. The results also show that the economic benefits of migration continue for the native-born on the mainland and that return migration...
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 285–310.
Published: 11 September 2012
... ties—bring about patrilocal residence patterns for the families of non-college-educated men, this could weaken such ties and increase the family’s reliance on outside care services for children and the elderly. In a welfare state such as Norway, families may not bear the full economic consequences...
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