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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 577–595.
Published: 01 November 1981
...Anrudh K. Jain Abstract This paper investigates the structure of the relationship between female education and fertility. It is based on data published in First Country Reports of the World Fertility Surveys for eleven countries—Costa Rica, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Panama, Fiji, Korea...
View articletitled, The Effect of <span class="search-highlight">Female</span> <span class="search-highlight">Education</span> on Fertility: A Simple Explanation
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 695–715.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., Volume 46-Number 4, November 2009: 695 715 695 D THE EFFECT OF SEXUAL ABSTINENCE ON FEMALES EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT* JOSEPH J. SABIA AND DANIEL I. REES A number of studies have shown that teenagers who abstain from sex are more likely to graduate from high school and attend college than their sexually...
View articletitled, The effect of sexual abstinence on <span class="search-highlight">females</span>' <span class="search-highlight">educational</span> attainment
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 915–930.
Published: 06 July 2011
... functioning between men and women for six of the seven study sites, I assess the extent to which these differences can be explained by prevailing male-female differences in education. I decompose predicted male-female differences in cognitive functioning based on various statistical models for later-life...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Education</span> and Male-<span class="search-highlight">Female</span> Differences in Later-Life Cognition: International Evidence From Latin America and the Caribbean
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in A Second Look at the Process of Occupational Feminization and Pay Reduction in Occupations
> Demography
Published: 22 March 2018
Fig. 3 Trends in proportions of female and male in occupations with high educational requirements, and in the premium for working in such occupations
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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...
View articletitled, The <span class="search-highlight">educational</span> attainment of young women: Role model effects of <span class="search-highlight">female</span> high school faculty
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 2053–2079.
Published: 01 December 2024
... Finnish register data on female same-sex couples who registered their partnership in 2002–2016, a period of important legal reforms regarding same-sex parenthood, we explore how education and the existence of prior children predict childbearing within the same-sex partnership. Female couples’ likelihood...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Educational</span> Differences in Fertility Among <span class="search-highlight">Female</span> Same-Sex Couples in Finland
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1399–1420.
Published: 24 January 2013
... examines the association between educational level and completed fertility in a sample of Finnish male and female twins born between 1950 and 1957 with register-based fertility follow-up until 2009. The results show that poorly educated men and highly educated women are least likely to have any children...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Educational</span> Differences in Completed Fertility: A Behavioral Genetic Study of Finnish Male and <span class="search-highlight">Female</span> Twins
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 183–208.
Published: 21 January 2015
... and education, and changing propensities that allow for greater educational homogamy and reduced educational asymmetries—to future population projections. Future population prospects for India indicate three trends that will impact marriage patterns: (1) female deficit in sex ratios at birth; (2) declining...
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 125–135.
Published: 01 February 1989
... in their effect on fertility. The relative importance of husbands’ attributes is much greater among Mexican-American couples. Although this suggests ethnic stereotypes about male dominance in Mexican-American families, differences in female educational attainment may offer a better explanation. The most immediate...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 971–991.
Published: 18 January 2013
... increases in female educational attainment and female employment rates. However, I find little evidence that women who do marry match to men who are younger or less educated than themselves. 7 12 2012 18 1 2013 © Population Association of America 2013 2013 Migration Mexico Fertility...
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in Proximate Sources of Change in Trajectories of First Marriage in the United States, 1960–2010
> Demography
Published: 21 March 2019
Fig. 3 Probability of ever marrying by education for females, 1960–2012. Marriage probabilities are based on multiple-decrement period measures. Estimates for 2011–2012 use 2010 mortality rates. Estimates by education are interpolated from 1988 through 2007 (indicated by dashed vertical lines
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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 (2009) 46 (3): 451–468.
Published: 01 August 2009
... effect at every parity. Using female education as an indicator of socioeconomic status, I find that socioeconomic status is a significant modifier of the effect of family allowances. Family allowances seem to have a relatively large impact on more-educated women. 13 1 2011 © Population...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1585–1611.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of fertility transitions across low- and middle-income countries. Our results confirm that household wealth, reduced child mortality, and female primary education are crucial for fertility declines. However, our analysis also highlights the importance of indicators of structural economic change, including...
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View articletitled, The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Structural Change
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 935–961.
Published: 01 November 2010
... members since migration began. Based on discrete-time hazard models, the analysis shows a dramatic increase in male migration and a gradual and uneven expansion of the female proportion of this international migration. Female migration, which is shown to be strongly associated with education, wealth...
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Published: 01 April 2025
Fig. 3 Education distribution at ages 30–39 in 2021–2090 in the high educational investment scenario, for males and females
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2161–2186.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of homogamy, hypergamy, and hypogamy, by marriage cohort Finally, consistent with Hypothesis 4, results suggest a decrease in female educational hypergamy but not necessarily for educational hypogamy. These findings provide important insights that improve the theoretical framework for the impact...
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View articletitled, Explaining Declining <span class="search-highlight">Educational</span> Homogamy: The Role of Institutional Changes in Higher <span class="search-highlight">Education</span> in Japan
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Causal Impact of Having a College Degree on Women’s Fertility: Evidence From Regression Kink Designs
Demography (2019) 56 (3): 969–990.
Published: 21 March 2019
... occupations. 21 2 2019 21 3 2019 © Population Association of America 2019 2019 Higher education Female fertility Regression kink designs College degree Many industrialized countries are experiencing a decline in the total fertility rate, and finding ways to reverse this trend...
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Published: 21 September 2015
Fig. 4 Predicted survival curves of transitions to first marriage for urban females by education
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 349–369.
Published: 01 February 2022
... education expansion is higher for female first-tier-college graduates than for their male counterparts. I use the 2010 wave of the Chinese Family Panel Study to examine patterns and trends in educational assortative mating in China from 1980 to 2010. CFPS is a nationally representative...
View articletitled, Revisiting Horizontal Stratification in Higher <span class="search-highlight">Education</span>: College Prestige Hierarchy and <span class="search-highlight">Educational</span> Assortative Mating in China
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