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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 183–208.
Published: 21 January 2015
... birth cohort size; (3) female educational expansion. Existing literature posits declining marriage rates for men arising from skewed sex ratios at birth (SRBs) in India’s population. In addition to skewed SRBs, India’s population will experience female educational expansion in the coming decades. Female...
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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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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 352–377.
Published: 01 June 1966
...-29 the proportion rises to 22 percent, and for ages 30-39 it is 29 percent. As for the women, a similar behavior is observed after the age of 29. Of the female immigrants who arrived at ages 15-19, the proportion-36 percent- which had less than four years of primary education was similar to those who...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1203–1213.
Published: 10 April 2017
... for non-Hispanic white women with less than a high school education; there has been a robust increase in life expectancy among white high school graduates and a smaller increase among black female high school graduates; lifespan variation did not increase appreciably among high school graduates...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2161–2186.
Published: 01 December 2022
... expansion rates by gender. However, the odds of marrying homogamously are a function of not only one's educational group size but also the relative proportions of males and females within one's educational level. Thus, examining both the expansion of higher education and gender differences in rates...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 349–369.
Published: 01 February 2022
... gender gap is also present in China after the expansion of higher education ( Esteve et al. 2016 ; Yeung 2013 ). In the 1980s, no more than 30% of Chinese college students were female, but the gender gap rapidly shrunk and then reversed in the twenty-first century ( Yeung 2013 ; Zhang and Chen 2013...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 71–91.
Published: 09 January 2017
.... We investigate the extent to which education is causally related to later age at first birth in a large sample of female twins from the United Kingdom ( N = 2,752). We present novel estimates using within–identical twin and biometric models. Our findings show that one year of additional schooling...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 291–314.
Published: 14 January 2012
... favorable disability trajectories for both genders. For females, rural residence, a greater number of children ever born, and having a father who did not work in agriculture are associated with more favorable trajectories. For a small group of males who received education, disability is moderate but changes...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 355–377.
Published: 26 March 2015
... will be able to evaluate whether childbearing within cohabitation in a given municipality depends only on the characteristics that we identified as explanatory variables (the three SDT indicators, female educational expansion, women’s empowerment, and economic difficulty) measured in the municipalities...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 987–1010.
Published: 01 June 2021
... force participation, which is viewed as one of the important indicators of inclusive development and female economic empowerment, has remained very low and stagnant and has sometimes declined in India, despite the nation's rapid economic growth, female educational expansion, and fertility decline...
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 245–270.
Published: 01 May 2008
... in between. EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITIES India has undergone signi cant educational expansion in recent years. As Table 2 indicates, educational attainment increased for both males and females between 1983 and 1999 2000 for all social groups, albeit overall educational attainment remains low. However, strati...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 739–762.
Published: 01 April 2021
... for Complex Events software. Results suggest that on balance, gains in ILLE are proportionately greater than gains in TLE, indicating an expansion of ILLE for most Chinese elders. Males, septuagenarian females, and disabled septuagenarians are the most likely to be living proportionately longer lives...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1195–1220.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... However, gains in women's schooling may have unexpected implications for female autonomy in contexts where hypergamy norms—the ideal that men should marry down and women should marry up in education and other markers of status—are still dominant. This study addresses difficulties in evaluating the causal...
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 917–934.
Published: 18 April 2019
...Bilal Barakat; Robin Shields Abstract The expansion of higher education enrollment and attainment is a key uncertainty in the education profile of future populations. Many studies have examined cross-national determinants of higher education expansion as well the understanding of expansion through...
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Demography (1975) 12 (1): 107–120.
Published: 01 February 1975
... that the expansion of higher educational and professional employ- ment opportunities has not affected males and females in the same way. Three reasons for these sexual discrep- ancies are: (1) males are a preferred labor resource, and the expansion of higher educational opportunities and higher status occupations...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 725–747.
Published: 16 April 2011
.... ( 1998 ) used data on birth rates over time among unmarried women aged 19–27 with 12 or fewer years of education from 15 states. They examined whether birth rates changed following several legislative changes that expanded Medicaid. Joyce et al. ( 1998 ) found that the expansions were associated with a 5...
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 73–95.
Published: 16 November 2013
... et al. 2011 ; Ferrie et al. 2003 ; Wilkinson 1997 ). Selection effects from social mobility may also account for some of these divergences: for instance, if health problems led directly to downward mobility. On the other side, the expansion of a merit-based higher education system could have led...
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Demography (2025) 62 (1): 211–236.
Published: 01 February 2025
... by the expansion of female labor opportunities, better living standards, and rising educational levels. However, neonatal discrimination against girls resurfaced in the early 1940s owing to the widespread misery elicited by the Spanish Civil War and the autarchic period that followed (Echavarri 2022 ). 4...
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1215–1240.
Published: 10 June 2020
... to partner equality to female advantage can occur without any changes in the underlying gender stratification system and can be explained simply by general expansion in education opportunities benefitting both men and women (Esteve et al. 2016 ). At the same time, it is undeniable that in many developed...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 780–784.
Published: 01 June 1968
... Male Female pop- pop- pop- pop- pop_ pop- lation lation lation lation lation lation Total 14.9 22.2 7.3 29.6 40.6 18.0 Urban 33.3 45.2 20.6 50.8 62.3 38.4 Rural 6.0 10.8 1.0 15.3 25.6 4.3 782 DEMOGRAPHY An Education Committee, comprised of senior officials of the Ministries of Education and Health, has...
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