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Demography (1995) 32 (2): 249–260.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Pedro M. Hernandez; Andrea H. Beller; John W. Graham Abstract We examine changes over the 1980s in the effect of child support payments on the educational attainment of children age 16 to 19 in the United States, and why child support has a stronger impact than other sources of income. We use 1979...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 108–125.
Published: 01 March 1967
... universitaria. Marital Status Educational Attainment Elementary Schooling High School Graduate Marriage Partner References 3 Hugh Carter, Sarah Lewit, and William F. Pratt, “Socioeconomic Characteristics of Persons Who Married between January 1947 and July 1954,” United States, Vital...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 135–142.
Published: 01 March 1967
...Gordon F. Sutton; Gooloo S. Wunderlich Summary Marital fertility rates by educational attainment of mother are estimated for the United States for 1963. These calculations are based upon information collected in a probability sample survey of women having births in 1963 and are prepared by relating...
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Demography (1998) 35 (1): 35–43.
Published: 01 February 1998
...Karl Eschbach; Khalil Supple; C. Matthew Snipp Abstract We use data from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 census public-use files to assess the impact of newly identified Indians on the educational attainment of American Indians who were at least 25 years old in 1970. We test the hypotheses...
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 221–234.
Published: 01 May 1988
...Sheila Fitzgerald Krein; Andrea H. Beller Abstract This article examines the effect of living in a single-parent family on educational attainment by gender and race. According to household production theory, the reduction in parental resources for human capital investment in children living...
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Demography (1990) 27 (3): 467–473.
Published: 01 August 1990
...Pamela J. Smock Abstract Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, this article illustrates the role of educational attainment in the remarriage patterns of black and white women. For whites, remarriage propensities do not differ significantly by schooling level. For blacks...
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 671–694.
Published: 01 November 2009
... both within and across generations. Meaningful relationships between early-life health and educational attainment raise important questions about how health may influence educational success in young adulthood and beyond, as well as for whom its influence is strongest. Using data from the National...
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 695–715.
Published: 01 November 2009
... 2009 Educational Attainment Ordinary Little Square High School Graduation Adolescent Health Ordinary Little Square Estimate References Adair L.S. , & Gordon-Larsen P. ( 2001 ). Maturational Timing and Overweight Prevalence in US Adolescent Girls . American Journal...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 185–194.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Lucia A. Nixon; Michael D. Robinson Abstract To test for the presence of role model effects of female high school faculty and professional staff on young women in high school, we estimate several models of educational attainment for young women using data from the National Longitudinal Survey...
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Demography (1998) 35 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 August 1998
... a multinomial logit model, controlling for other factors often thought to be associated with health transitions. High levels of educational attainment result in a decreased incidence of functional limitation for those originating in a state of independence. Contrary to expectations, however, education has...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 693–717.
Published: 01 August 2008
... between family size and children’s schooling can differ within the same country and change over time as contextual factors evolve with socioeconomic development. © Population Association of America 2008 2008 13 1 2011 Educational Attainment Family Size Birth Cohort Birth Order...
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Demography (2003) 40 (1): 83–103.
Published: 01 February 2003
...James M. Raymo Abstract I use data from a large nationally representative survey to examine the relationship between women’s educational attainment and the timing of first marriage in Japan. The results indicate that later marriage for highly educated women primarily reflects longer enrollment...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 835–859.
Published: 08 May 2017
... commonly used exogenous increase in family size to study the Q-Q trade-off in high-income countries. Black et al. ( 2005 ) used twins as an instrument for family size using Norwegian data and found no evidence that family size affects educational attainment of children, after controlling for birth order...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 59–82.
Published: 27 December 2017
... completing their education after having children. Such a trend raises questions about whether increases in mothers’ educational attainment can improve their children’s skill development and whether these gains are enough to reduce inequalities in skills compared with children whose mothers completed the same...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 525–552.
Published: 28 February 2012
...Juho Härkönen; Hande Kaymakçalan; Pirjo Mäki; Anja Taanila Abstract In this article, we study the effects of prenatal health on educational attainment and on the reproduction of family background inequalities in education. Using Finnish birth cohort data, we analyze several maternal and fetal...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 315–336.
Published: 13 January 2012
...Jennifer Karas Montez; Robert A. Hummer; Mark D. Hayward Abstract A vast literature has documented the inverse association between educational attainment and U.S. adult mortality risk but given little attention to identifying the optimal functional form of the association. A theoretical explanation...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 889–914.
Published: 03 June 2011
...Anne McDaniel; Thomas A. DiPrete; Claudia Buchmann; Uri Shwed Abstract It is often asserted that the gender gap in educational attainment is larger for blacks than whites, but historical trends comparing the black and white gender gap have received surprisingly little attention. Analysis...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 413–435.
Published: 27 November 2013
... impairment. We also examine the degree to which educational attainment mediates and moderates the health consequences of early-life disadvantages. Using the 1998–2008 Health and Retirement Study, we examine these questions for non-Hispanic whites and blacks aged 50–100 years using multistate life tables...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 543–567.
Published: 24 March 2015
... to questions of assimilation and cross-group comparisons, the methodological implications receive scant attention. In the following sections, we show how variation in intergenerational transmission of educational attainment can lead to false conclusions when aggregate-level data are used to make inferences...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 75–109.
Published: 01 February 2021
... research. Our findings contribute to growing research stressing the causal influence of familial educational attainment on population health. Copyright © 2021 The Authors 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Cognition...
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