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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1031–1058.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Solveig Topstad Borgen; Are Skeie Hermansen Abstract Educational expansion has raised the influence of sorting across postsecondary educational fields on children's future life chances. Yet, little is known about horizontal ethnic stratification in the choice of field of study among children...
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in How Gender Segregation in Higher Education Contributes to Gender Segregation in the U.S. Labor Market
> Demography
Published: 01 June 2023
Fig. 1 Selected field-of-study coefficients (right panel) and gender gaps in coefficients (left panel) on the probability of entering a male-dominated occupation (i.e., in which the proportion of male workers is at or above the share of men in the college-educated employed labor force
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 769–795.
Published: 01 June 2024
... is intertwined with structural and social forces, such as gender and family ( Agadjanian and Hayford 2018 ; Rao 2012 ), and how the unique circumstances of having a husband working abroad influence women's lives in the sending country. To fill this gap, this study examines the association of spousal migration...
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in Horizontal Advantage: Choice of Postsecondary Field of Study Among Children of Immigrants
> Demography
Published: 01 August 2023
Fig. 1 Distribution of expected earnings percentile rank across fields of study by immigrant background. Within-field variation in expected earnings reflects student sorting by immigrant background across detailed three-digit fields of study in each aggregate field.
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1815–1841.
Published: 01 December 2023
... determinants of Black–White disparities in biological aging remain inadequately understood. This study uses data from the Health and Retirement Study ( n = 6,782), multivariable regression, and Kitagawa–Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition to assess Black–White disparities across three measures of biological aging...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 757–772.
Published: 01 November 2004
... (LSHTM), Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom; E-mail: [email protected]. Momodou Jasseh, Farafenni Field Station, Medical Research Council Laboratories, The Gambia. This research was undertaken while Momodou Jasseh was affiliated with the Centre for Population Studies, LSHTM...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 1–31.
Published: 30 November 2017
... history, family income and homeownership, the family unit head’s education, and the sampled child’s health and residence history. The response rate in the Wave 1 sample of children was 86 % (Sastry and Pebley 2003 ). Wave 2 of L.A.FANS was fielded between August 2006 and December 2008. This wave...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 773–784.
Published: 01 April 2021
... exactly hold for idealized randomized experiments with full compliance ( Robins and Hernán 2009 ). However, these are heroic assumptions for real-world observational research in demography or any other field. Fig. 1 Estimated adjusted effects of average expected neighborhood disadvantage...
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 121–134.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Roberta Rehner Iversen; Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.; Alisa A. Belzer Abstract Following a critique of the 1990 decennial census procedures, we conducted a field study among low-income, inner-city residents in 1991 to examine how they conceptualized and managed the civic task of census response...
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in Which Degree for Which Occupation? Vertical and Horizontal Mismatch Among Immigrants, Their Children, and Grandchildren in France
> Demography
Published: 01 December 2024
a standardized measure. Higher values indicate greater horizontal mismatch (i.e., a small proportion of individuals in the occupation with the same field of study, relatively speaking). The model controls for age at interview, age at interview squared, an indicator variable of whether the individual
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in Which Degree for Which Occupation? Vertical and Horizontal Mismatch Among Immigrants, Their Children, and Grandchildren in France
> Demography
Published: 01 December 2024
is operationalized using a standardized measure. Higher values indicate greater horizontal mismatch (i.e., a small proportion of individuals in the occupation with the same field of study, relatively speaking). The model controls for age at interview, age at interview squared, an indicator variable of whether
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 761–784.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Fig. 1 Selected field-of-study coefficients (right panel) and gender gaps in coefficients (left panel) on the probability of entering a male-dominated occupation (i.e., in which the proportion of male workers is at or above the share of men in the college-educated employed labor force...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 865–890.
Published: 01 June 2023
...— Demography , Population Studies , and Population and Development Review —to survey the changing contours of anglophone demography's key research areas over the past 70 years. We characterize the field of demography by applying a two-pronged, data-grounded approach from the sociology of science. The first...
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 453–463.
Published: 01 June 1967
... efecto de la contracepción sobre el espaciamiento de los nacimientos entre parejas casadas, y la relación de la fertilidad con la frecuencia del coito. El artículo trata de algunos aspectos metodo1ógicos que convergen alrededor de estos problemas. Summary Significant efforts in the field of study...
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 439–458.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Jan Van Bavel Abstract Theory suggests that the field of study may be at least as consequential for fertility behavior as the duration and level of education. Yet, this qualitative dimension of educational achievement has been largely neglected in demographic studies. This article analyzes...
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in Which Degree for Which Occupation? Vertical and Horizontal Mismatch Among Immigrants, Their Children, and Grandchildren in France
> Demography
Published: 01 December 2024
). Horizontal mismatch is operationalized using a standardized measure. Higher values indicate greater horizontal mismatch (i.e., a small proportion of individuals in the occupation with the same field of study, relatively speaking). The models control for each mechanism separately. All models control for age
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 374–387.
Published: 01 March 1967
...) matching events from registration and surveys and field recheck of unmatched events to obtain the “best” count of real number of events. Preliminary results in a non-random sample indicate that the crude birth and death rates are around 37.1 and 15.7 per 1,000, respectively, for India’s rural population...
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1923–1948.
Published: 01 December 2024
... a standardized measure. Higher values indicate greater horizontal mismatch (i.e., a small proportion of individuals in the occupation with the same field of study, relatively speaking). The model controls for age at interview, age at interview squared, an indicator variable of whether the individual...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 244–252.
Published: 01 March 1967
...Harvey M. Choldin; A. Majeed Kahn; B. Hosne Ara Summary A description is presented of interviewing and other field work problems in a fertility and KAP survey among village women in East Pakistan. The female population studied had a very low literacy rate and no previous contact with social...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 81–89.
Published: 01 March 1967
... five- point plan and were educational pro- grams. Although individual programs differed in many respects, essentially the same general phasing of the educational efforts was employed, as follows: Phase I: Initiation.-The essential element of this phase was basic fact-finding. The field worker studied...
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