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Longevity and Lifespan Variation by Educational Attainment in Spain: 1960–2015

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Iñaki Permanyer, Jeroen Spijker, Amand Blanes, Elisenda Renteria
Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2045–2070.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0718-z
Published: 15 October 2018
... by educational attainment groups, and (2) the inequality in age-at-death distributions within and across those groups for the period between 1960 and 2015 in Spain. Our findings suggest that life expectancy has been increasing for all education groups but particularly among the highly educated. We observe...
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Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents' Cognition in Mexico

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Mingming Ma, Jenjira Yahirun, Joseph Saenz, Connor Sheehan
Demography (2021) 58 (1): 75–109.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-8931725
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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Fig. 1 Educational attainment of the children of Mexicans aged 50+. Average years of schooling by cohort are calculated for all children and highest-educated children, respectively. Quadratic fitted lines are drawn separately for children born before 1979 and in 1979 or later.

Educational attainment of the children of Mexicans aged 50+. Average years ...

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in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents' Cognition in Mexico > Demography
Published: 01 February 2021
Fig. 1 Educational attainment of the children of Mexicans aged 50+. Average years of schooling by cohort are calculated for all children and highest-educated children, respectively. Quadratic fitted lines are drawn separately for children born before 1979 and in 1979 or later. More
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Life expectancies at age 35 by gender and educational attainment for four periods: 1960–1969, 1970–1979, 1980–1989, and 2012–2015. Source: Authors’ elaboration using data from the ESD and INE

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in Longevity and Lifespan Variation by Educational Attainment in Spain: 1960–2015 > Demography
Published: 15 October 2018
Fig. 1 Life expectancies at age 35 by gender and educational attainment for four periods: 1960–1969, 1970–1979, 1980–1989, and 2012–2015. Source: Authors’ elaboration using data from the ESD and INE More
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Life table death distributions by educational attainment for women (upper panel) and men (lower panel) in the 1960–1969 period (left) and in 2012–2015 (right). Source: Authors’ elaboration using data from the ESD and INE

Life table death distributions by educational attainment for women (upper p...

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in Longevity and Lifespan Variation by Educational Attainment in Spain: 1960–2015 > Demography
Published: 15 October 2018
Fig. 2 Life table death distributions by educational attainment for women (upper panel) and men (lower panel) in the 1960–1969 period (left) and in 2012–2015 (right). Source: Authors’ elaboration using data from the ESD and INE More
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Changes in Household Composition and Children’s Educational Attainment

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Kristin L. Perkins
Demography (2019) 56 (2): 525–548.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0757-5
Published: 16 January 2019
...-varying methods for causal inference to test the independent effects of different types of changes in household composition on educational attainment. Experiencing changes involving nonparent, nonsibling household members has a significant negative effect on educational attainment that is similar...
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Trends in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation by Educational Attainment: United States, 1990–2010

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Isaac Sasson
Demography (2016) 53 (2): 269–293.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0453-7
Published: 26 January 2016
... an individual standpoint, and higher group heterogeneity from a population perspective. Using data from the National Vital Statistics System from 1990 to 2010, this is the first study to document trends in both life expectancy and S 25 —the standard deviation of age at death above 25—by educational attainment...
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Diverging Mobility Trajectories: Grandparent Effects on Educational Attainment in One- and Two-Parent Families in the United States

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Xi Song
Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1905–1932.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0515-5
Published: 25 October 2016
... on grandchildren’s years of educational attainment and heterogeneity in the effects associated with family structure. The results show that for both African Americans and whites, grandparent effects are the strongest for grandchildren who grew up in two-parent families, followed by those in single-parent families...
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Estimates for the effect of educational attainment on the transition to fatherhood without controlling for union status: relative risks for highly educated (square with dashed bars) and medium-educated men (circles with solid bars) compared with low-educated men (1.0 reference line). Displayed relative risks apply for men who have been out of school for more than two years

Estimates for the effect of educational attainment on the transition to fat...

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in Education and the Transition to Fatherhood: The Role of Selection Into Union > Demography
Published: 11 January 2017
Fig. 1 Estimates for the effect of educational attainment on the transition to fatherhood without controlling for union status: relative risks for highly educated ( square with dashed bars) and medium-educated men ( circles with solid bars) compared with low-educated men (1.0 reference line More
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Estimates for the effect of educational attainment on the transition to fatherhood after controlling for union status: relative risks for highly educated (square with dashed bars) and medium-educated men (circles with solid bars) compared with low-educated men (1.0 reference line). Displayed relative risks apply for men who have been out of school for more than two years

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in Education and the Transition to Fatherhood: The Role of Selection Into Union > Demography
Published: 11 January 2017
Fig. 2 Estimates for the effect of educational attainment on the transition to fatherhood after controlling for union status: relative risks for highly educated ( square with dashed bars) and medium-educated men ( circles with solid bars) compared with low-educated men (1.0 reference line More
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Estimates for the effect of educational attainment on the transition to fatherhood (a) and union formation (b) from a joint model simultaneously estimating the parameters for both processes: relative risks for highly educated (square with dashed bars) and medium-educated men (circles with solid bars) compared with low-educated men (1.0 reference line). Displayed relative risks apply for men who have been out of school for more than two years

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in Education and the Transition to Fatherhood: The Role of Selection Into Union > Demography
Published: 11 January 2017
Fig. 3 Estimates for the effect of educational attainment on the transition to fatherhood (a) and union formation (b) from a joint model simultaneously estimating the parameters for both processes: relative risks for highly educated ( square with dashed bars) and medium-educated men ( circles More
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Preference for Boys, Family Size, and Educational Attainment in India

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Adriana D. Kugler, Santosh Kumar
Demography (2017) 54 (3): 835–859.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0575-1
Published: 08 May 2017
... 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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Can Increased Educational Attainment Among Lower-Educated Mothers Reduce Inequalities in Children’s Skill Development?

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Jennifer March Augustine, Daniela V. Negraia
Demography (2018) 55 (1): 59–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0637-4
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...
View articletitled, Can Increased <span class="search-highlight">Educational</span> <span class="search-highlight">Attainment</span> Among Lower-<span class="search-highlight">Educated</span> Mothers Reduce Inequalities in Children’s Skill Development? View PDF for article titled, Can Increased <span class="search-highlight">Educational</span> <span class="search-highlight">Attainment</span> Among Lower-<span class="search-highlight">Educated</span> Mothers Reduce Inequalities in Children’s Skill Development?
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Evaluating the Role of Parental Education and Adolescent Health Problems in Educational Attainment

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Janne Mikkonen, Hanna Remes, Heta Moustgaard, Pekka Martikainen
Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2245–2267.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00919-y
Published: 01 October 2020
...Janne Mikkonen; Hanna Remes; Heta Moustgaard; Pekka Martikainen Abstract This article reconsiders the role of social origin in health selection by examining whether parental education moderates the association between early health and educational attainment and whether health problems mediate...
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The changing relationship between family size and educational attainment over the course of socioeconomic development: Evidence from Indonesia

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Vida Maralani
Demography (2008) 45 (3): 693–717.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0013
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. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2008 2008 Educational Attainment Family Size Birth Cohort Birth Order...
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The Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment: Historical Trends and Racial Comparisons

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Anne McDaniel, Thomas A. DiPrete, Claudia Buchmann, Uri Shwed
Demography (2011) 48 (3): 889–914.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0037-0
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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View articletitled, The Black Gender Gap in <span class="search-highlight">Educational</span> <span class="search-highlight">Attainment</span>: Historical Trends and Racial Comparisons View PDF for article titled, The Black Gender Gap in <span class="search-highlight">Educational</span> <span class="search-highlight">Attainment</span>: Historical Trends and Racial Comparisons
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Prenatal Health, Educational Attainment, and Intergenerational Inequality: The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study

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Juho Härkönen, Hande Kaymakçalan, Pirjo Mäki, Anja Taanila
Demography (2012) 49 (2): 525–552.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0092-1
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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Educational Attainment and Adult Mortality in the United States: A Systematic Analysis of Functional Form

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Jennifer Karas Montez, Robert A. Hummer, Mark D. Hayward
Demography (2012) 49 (1): 315–336.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0082-8
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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Educational attainment and the transition to first marriage among Japanese women

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James M. Raymo
Demography (2003) 40 (1): 83–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2003.0008
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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The educational attainment of young women: Role model effects of female high school faculty

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Lucia A. Nixon, Michael D. Robinson
Demography (1999) 36 (2): 185–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648107
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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