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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 467–484.
Published: 01 August 2002
... 1990 file, we examine the home languages of second- and third-generation children and compare the degree of their language shift against that among the descendants of European immigrants, as evidenced in the 1940 and 1970 censuses. Overall, the rates of speaking only English for a number...
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Demography (1986) 23 (4): 563–578.
Published: 01 November 1986
... . 10.2307/2134865 DEMOGRAPHY© Volume 23, Number 4 November 1986 TRENDS IN ILLEGITIMACY AMONG FIVE ENGLISH-SPEAKING POPULATIONS: 1940-1980 Phillips Cutright Herbert L. Smith Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Trends in post-World War II fertility followed a similar...
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Demography (1986) 23 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 February 1986
... to nuptiality levels via sex selective migration patterns and population sex ratios. Our analysis shows that nuptiality levels in nineteenth century English and Welsh districts were responsive to occupational variation and that both direct and indirect effects were significant. Our results suggest...
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in Age at Migration, Language Proficiency, and Socioeconomic Outcomes: Evidence From Australia
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Published: 07 March 2015
Fig. 1 Age at arrival and English language proficiency. The sample consists of age at arrival 0–17, living in Australia 11–55 years, and currently aged 25–55
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in Conjuring the Ghosts of Missing Children: A Monte Carlo Simulation of Reproductive Restraint in Tokugawa Japan
> Demography
Published: 02 April 2015
Fig. 4 Model validation with the women of 26 English parishes, 1583–1837. The 15–19 age group is omitted because there were many prenuptial conceptions (Wrigley et al. 1997 :398). The age 45–49 age group contains fewer than 50 women, which Wrigley et al. ( 1997 ) consider too small to draw
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in The Effects of Adolescent Childbearing on Literacy and Numeracy in Bangladesh, Malawi, and Zambia
> Demography
Published: 09 September 2019
Fig. 1 English oral reading skills by baseline school enrollment status. The figure presents the measurement of literacy skills that occurred most closely to the time of school leaving, stratified by school enrollment status at the first round of data collection. That is, for girls who were out
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in The Effects of Adolescent Childbearing on Literacy and Numeracy in Bangladesh, Malawi, and Zambia
> Demography
Published: 09 September 2019
Fig. 2 The effect of birth status on standardized English literacy by level of grade attainment
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1543–1569.
Published: 01 July 2020
... composition of the English family reconstitution sample over time, recent explorations of fertility differences in preindustrial England found that the higher social classes were likely to have larger families than other social classes; but by the early nineteenth century, social class differences in family...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 571–602.
Published: 17 March 2017
...Marigee Bacolod; Marcos A. Rangel Abstract We study the economic assimilation of childhood immigrants to the United States. The linguistic distance between English and the predominant language in one’s country of birth interacted with age at arrival is shown to be closely connected to occupational...
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Selection, Language Heritage, and the Earnings Trajectories of Black Immigrants in the United States
Demography (2014) 51 (3): 975–1002.
Published: 23 May 2014
...Tod G. Hamilton Abstract Research suggests that immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean surpass the earnings of U.S.-born blacks approximately one decade after arriving in the United States. Using data from the 1980–2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005–2007 American Community Surveys on U.S.-born...
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S211–S231.
Published: 01 March 2010
... onset compared with the English. In contrast, age-specific mortality rates are similar in the two countries, with an even higher risk among the English after age 65. We also examine reasons for the large financial gradients in mortality in the two countries. Among 55- to 64-year-olds, we estimate...
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 17–33.
Published: 01 February 1988
...Gray Swicegood; Frank D. Bean; Elizabeth Hervey Stephen; Wolfgang Opitz Abstract This article examines the effects of English proficiency and female education on cumulative and recent fertility within the Mexican-origin population in the U.S. To ascertain whether the cultural or the human capital...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 513–542.
Published: 07 March 2015
...Fig. 1 Age at arrival and English language proficiency. The sample consists of age at arrival 0–17, living in Australia 11–55 years, and currently aged 25–55 ...
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Published: 07 September 2013
Fig. 2 Proportion in bad health by years of birth cohort. Sources: HSE 1998, 1999, and 2004 for the Irish in England and the white English living in Ireland, and HSE 2000 for the Irish in Ireland
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 391–409.
Published: 01 August 2001
... of English or French is greater, the younger the age at migration, the longer the duration of residence, the higher the educational attainment, the farther the country of origin from Canada, and the linguistically closer the mother tongue to English or French, and among those who are not refugees, those from...
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 500–512.
Published: 01 June 1966
..., although sharp social and economic differences existed between the urban and feudal English and the pastoral Irish, the possibility of a normal political and economic region was present. Although Edward I granted common law rights to the Welsh, he refused them to the Irish, thus preventing integration...
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1295–1320.
Published: 26 June 2015
... as a potentially significant deviation from this paradox for second-generation immigrant children. We evaluated two alternate measures of mother’s acculturation: age at arrival in the United States and English language proficiency. To obtain sufficient numbers of second-generation immigrant children, we pooled...
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2013–2035.
Published: 07 September 2013
...Fig. 2 Proportion in bad health by years of birth cohort. Sources: HSE 1998, 1999, and 2004 for the Irish in England and the white English living in Ireland, and HSE 2000 for the Irish in Ireland ...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1899–1929.
Published: 09 September 2019
...Fig. 1 English oral reading skills by baseline school enrollment status. The figure presents the measurement of literacy skills that occurred most closely to the time of school leaving, stratified by school enrollment status at the first round of data collection. That is, for girls who were out...
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in Selection, Language Heritage, and the Earnings Trajectories of Black Immigrants in the United States
> Demography
Published: 23 May 2014
Fig. 1 Projected gaps in weekly earnings between native blacks (panel a) or native black movers (panel b) and black immigrants from English-speaking Caribbean countries with 20+ years of residence in the United States
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