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Demography (1995) 32 (2): 215–229.
Published: 01 May 1995
... between blacks’ and whites’ mortality. We discuss limitations of the data and directions for future research. 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1995 1995 Death Certificate Postsecondary Education Adult Mortality Educational Inequality Educational Difference...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 1155.
Published: 11 May 2012
...Leticia J. Marteleto An error appears in Table 2 of “Educational Inequality by Race in Brazil, 1982–2007: Structural Changes and Shifts in Racial Classification,” by Leticia Marteleto (vol. 49(1), 337–358). The label for the first row of the table should read “Sex (omitted: male).” DOI...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 337–358.
Published: 19 January 2012
... from 1982 and 1987 to 2007, this study investigates educational inequalities between white, pardo (mixed-race), and black Brazilians over the 25-year period. Although the educational advantage of whites persisted during this period, I find that the significance of race as it relates to education...
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 245–270.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Sonalde Desai; Veena Kulkarni Abstract Indian society suffers from substantial inequalities in education, employment, and income based on caste and ethnicity. Compensatory or positive discrimination policies reserve 15% of the seats in institutions of higher education and state and central...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 111–136.
Published: 01 February 2022
..., changing family structures are considered to have strengthened the reproduction of social inequalities across generations. However, several studies have shown that childhood family structure relates differently to educational outcomes for sons than for daughters. Therefore, we ask whether there are gender...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1693–1721.
Published: 06 August 2019
...—interventions that bypass individuals’ unequal access and ability to employ flexible resources to avoid health hazards—have an effect on educational inequalities in health behaviors. We test theoretically informed but competing hypotheses that these policies either amplify or attenuate the association between...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1977–2007.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., results reveal that seeking a partner in the virtual world perpetuated partnering inequality ( Schmitz 2017 ) among men while reverting the educational hierarchy among women. Within the group of singles using online dating, high-educated women experienced the highest chance of finding a mate...
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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 (2010) 47 (2): 481–502.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Florencia Torche Abstract Educational assortative mating and economic inequality are likely to be endogenously determined, but very little research exists on their empirical association. Using census data and log-linear and log-multiplicative methods, I compare the patterns of educational...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 867–887.
Published: 26 May 2012
...Richard Breen; Signe Hald Andersen Abstract Many writers have expressed a concern that growing educational assortative mating will lead to greater inequality between households in their earnings or income. In this article, we examine the relationship between educational assortative mating...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 571–602.
Published: 01 April 2021
... dimensions of human and social development. In spite of this unique scenario, never has the social stratification literature examined patterns and implications of educational assortative mating for inequality in SSA. Using 126 Demographic and Health Surveys from 39 SSA countries between 1986 and 2016...
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in Educational Assortative Mating in Sub-Saharan Africa: Compositional Changes and Implications for Household Wealth Inequality
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Published: 01 April 2021
Fig. 6 Percentage of cohort-specific inequality attributable to educational assortative mating, by location of residence and region of sub-Saharan Africa. Related estimates with variance components in Table B2 (online appendix). Source : Demographic and Health Surveys and Global Data Lab.
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1185–1205.
Published: 21 July 2016
... unobserved and observed neighborhood and family characteristics, we use twins fixed-effects models to assess whether racial disparities in education exist between twins and whether such disparities vary by gender. We find that even under this stringent test of racial inequality, the nonwhite educational...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 653–674.
Published: 14 April 2011
... 2011 Health inequality SES Tobacco use Cross-national Education A huge literature demonstrates the harm done by tobacco use to health and longevity and describes the decline in use of cigarettes in the United States (for summaries of the literature, see reports of the Surgeon General...
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 201–226.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Xiaoguang Li; Yao Lu Abstract Extensive research has documented persistent nativity inequality in the U.S. labor market, even among high-skilled immigrants. Yet, this phenomenon has not been sufficiently explained. This study investigates whether different types of education–occupation mismatch...
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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 (2004) 41 (3): 509–528.
Published: 01 August 2004
... AND GENDER INEQUALITY IN EDUCATION: A LIFE-TABLE APPROACH AND APPLICATION TO CAMEROON* PARFAIT M. ELOUNDOU-ENYEGUE In this study, I used a life-table approach to estimate how much hypothetical reductions in pregnancy-related dropouts would help close the gender gap in educational attainment. Using...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1011–1037.
Published: 01 June 2021
... with a low-educated father. We discuss the implications of our results for theories about the impact of institutions and income inequality on educational inequality and the mechanisms that underlie such inequality. Copyright © 2021 The Authors 2021 This is an open access article distributed under...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1637–1666.
Published: 01 October 2024
... Curve–type positive association between income inequality in childhood and the SC, both cross-nationally and within countries over time. This finding supports theoretical accounts of the Great Gatsby Curve that emphasize the role of educational inequality as a link between economic inequality and social...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1033–1068.
Published: 27 March 2018
...Fabian T. Pfeffer Abstract Prior research on trends in educational inequality has focused chiefly on changing gaps in educational attainment by family income or parental occupation. In contrast, this contribution provides the first assessment of trends in educational attainment by family wealth...
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