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Addendum to “The Effects of College on Weight: Examining the ‘Freshman 15’ Myth and Other Effects of College Over the Life Cycle”
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1947.
Published: 03 August 2017
... ). The freshman 15: A critical time for obesity intervention or media myth? . Social Science Quarterly , 92 , 1389 – 1407 . Two additional studies examining education and weight gain during a portion of the life cycle have recently been published. First, Zagorsky and Smith ( 2011 ) used data from...
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The Effects of College on Weight: Examining the “Freshman 15” Myth and Other Effects of College Over the Life Cycle
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 311–336.
Published: 07 December 2016
... the point of the life cycle when weight changes are most likely to occur may aid in developing the best intervention and prevention techniques. Weight Weight gain College Freshman 15 © Population Association of America 2016 2016 27 10 2016 7 12 2016 To explore...
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1489–1516.
Published: 01 August 2022
... obtained the standardized IQ scores for participants in the freshman year of high school, the junior year, or both. The test score is based on a Henmon-Nelson test, a multiple-choice assessment containing 90 verbal or quantitative items ( Lamke and Nelson 1958 ). This test was administered in all Wisconsin...
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View articletitled, Long-Term Effects of Local-Area New Deal Work Relief in Childhood on Educational, Economic, and Health Outcomes Over the Life Course: Evidence From the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
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On the theory of stable populations: A new and elementary proof of the theorems under weaker assumptions
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Demography (1969) 6 (3): 301–322.
Published: 01 August 1969
... of childbearing to change from cohort to cohort, which is important for populations practicing contraception. Second, none of the advanced mathematics used in previous formulations is needed; only the manipulation of sums and inequalities from high school algebra and the concept of “limit” from freshman calculus...
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Early work experience of graduates and dropouts
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 19–29.
Published: 01 March 1967
... that they have not graduated from high a Attrition at this level in a cohort of males entering a large, state-supported college in 1952 as freshman has been reported in Bruce K. Eck- land, "College Dropouts Who Came Back," Harvard Educational Review, XXXIV (Summer, 1964), Table 3. It is not inconsistent...
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Religious Differentials in Reproduction: the Effects of Sectarian Education
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Demography (1982) 19 (4): 495–509.
Published: 01 November 1982
... female who had spent grades 1- 3 in a parochial school, grades 4-9 in a public school, grades 10-12 back in a parochial school, freshman and sopho- more years at a state college, and junior and senior years at a Catholic college would be scored as: three years at a Catholic primary school; three years...
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Explaining the Gender Wealth Gap
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1155–1176.
Published: 21 December 2012
... Ability (Henmon and Nelson 1954 ) was given to all juniors and most freshman attending Wisconsin high schools. Test scores are converted to percentiles among Wisconsin students on whom the test had been normed, and the percentiles are then transformed into the standard metric of IQ. High school rank...
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Genetic Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Racial Classification in Social Surveys in the Contemporary United States
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 141–172.
Published: 10 September 2013
... department before their freshman year, and the second from an online survey. The university housing form allowed students to self-classify as only one of six racial/ethnic groups: white, black, Hispanic, Asian and Pacific Islander, Native Indian, and Other; comparatively, the online questionnaire allowed...
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Circadian Rhythms, Sleep, and Cognitive Skills: Evidence From an Unsleeping Giant
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1715–1742.
Published: 13 September 2017
... to determine the causal effect of school start times on academic performance. Carrell et al. ( 2011 ) identified the causal effect of school start times on academic achievement by using two policy changes in the daily schedule at the U.S. Air Force Academy along with the randomized placement of freshman...
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Socioeconomic Segregation, Campus Social Context, and Disparities in Bachelor's Degree Attainment
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1039–1064.
Published: 01 June 2021
... university: Do public universities increase nonresident freshman enrollment in response to declining state appropriations? Research in Higher Education , 56 , 535 – 565 . Kahlenberg R. D. ( 2001 ). All together now: Creating middle-class schools through public school choice . Washington, DC...
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Recent developments in longitudinal studies of aging in the United States
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S111–S130.
Published: 01 March 2010
...), which was administered to about 70% of graduates in their freshman year of high school and to all of them in their junior year. Coverage of selected siblings is about 80%. In 1993 1994, the surveys administered a single cognitive assessment, the abstract reason- ing (similarities) module of the Wechsler...
