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Childhood events and circumstances influencing high school completion
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Demography (1991) 28 (1): 133–157.
Published: 01 February 1991
...Robert Haveman; Barbara Wolfe; James Spaulding Abstract This paper is an empirical exploration of the effects of a variety of family and economic circumstances experienced during childhood on one indicator of success in young adulthood-high school completion. The estimates suggest that parental...
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Making it in America: High school completion by immigrant and native youth
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 511–536.
Published: 01 August 2006
.... 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2006 2006 Social Capital Cultural Capital Immigrant Generation Immigrant Youth Native Youth References Aguiano , R. ( 2004 ). Families and Schools: The Effects of Parental Involvement on High School Completion . Journal...
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Increasing Inequality in Parent Incomes and Children’s Schooling
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1603–1626.
Published: 01 August 2017
..., increasing gaps in mother’s age at the time of birth accounts for a substantial portion of the increasing schooling gap: mother’s age is consistently predictive of children’s completed schooling, and the maternal age gap for children born into low- and high-income families increased considerably over...
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The Timing of Teenage Births: Estimating the Effect on High School Graduation and Later-Life Outcomes
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 345–365.
Published: 03 January 2019
... expected graduation date) with mothers who did not experience the same disruption to their education. We find that mothers who gave birth during the school year are 5.4 percentage points less likely to complete their high school education, are less likely to be married, and have more children than...
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View articletitled, The Timing of Teenage Births: Estimating the Effect on <span class="search-highlight">High</span> <span class="search-highlight">School</span> Graduation and Later-Life Outcomes
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Intergenerational mobility in the post-1965 immigration era: Estimates by an immigrant generation cohort method
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 369–392.
Published: 01 May 2010
... to children’s status attainment relative to parents and with regard to the rising societal standards proxied by native-born non-Hispanic whites. A profile of intergenerational mobility is prepared using multiple indicators of status attainment: high school and college completion, upper white-collar occupation...
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Body Weight, Eating Patterns, and Physical Activity: The Role of Education
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1225–1249.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., respectively. Although the parameter estimates are not particularly high in absolute values, they show that the policy indeed increased the rate of lower secondary school completion among the individuals who were affected by the reform. In fact, as discussed earlier, compliance with the policy...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 393–418.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... , & Schneider D. ( 2013 ). The causal effects of father absence . Annual Review of Sociology , 39 , 399 – 427 . National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) . ( 2017 ). High school completion rate of 18- to 24-year-olds not enrolled in high school (status completion rate), by sex and race...
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View articletitled, Academic Achievement of Children in Same- and Different-Sex-Parented Families: A Population-Level Analysis of Linked Administrative Data From the Netherlands
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Educational attainment as a selective factor in marital status transitions in the United States
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 108–125.
Published: 01 March 1967
...-24 years. There were also some variations in the ways in which questions were asked in the Table 2.-PERCENT SINGLE BY SEX, AGE (UNDER 25 YEARS), AND YEARS OF SCHOOL COMPLETED-UNITED STATES, 1940, 1950, AND 1960- Years of school completed Year Sex and age Elementary High school I College Total 4 years...
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Maternal Age and Child Development
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2229–2255.
Published: 01 November 2018
... five years between cohorts of children born in the late 1950s and the early 1980s. In their accounting of the increases in the completed schooling gap between high- and low-income children over this interval, Duncan et al. ( 2017 ) found that mother’s age at the birth of the children can explain...
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Intergenerational Profiles of Socioeconomic (Dis)advantage and Obesity During the Transition to Adulthood
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 625–651.
Published: 14 April 2011
... than full time. Neither parent was likely to have more than a high school education or to have a professional occupation, and these households were least likely to have health insurance and most likely to have received public assistance. As young adults, respondents in this group reported the lowest...
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National Estimates of Cohabitation
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 615–625.
Published: 01 November 1989
.... Multivariate analysis reveals higher rates of cohabitation among women, whites, persons who did not complete high school, and those from families who received welfare or who lived in a single-parent family while growing up. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1989 1989 Divorce Rate...
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Educational Disparities in Adult Mortality Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s?
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 621–644.
Published: 03 January 2019
... by state: in the early twenty-first century, the greater risk of death associated with lacking a high school credential, compared with having completed at least one year of college, ranged from 40 % in Arizona to 104 % in Maryland. The size of the disparities varies across states primarily because...
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Estimating marital fertility rates by educational attainment using a survey of new mothers
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 135–142.
Published: 01 March 1967
... who completed some high school but did not graduate and women with one or more years of college had higher annual fertility rates than women in other attainment classes. Alternative estimation procedures are discussed which illustrate difficulties in obtaining satisfactory correspondence between two...
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in Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages? Causal Evidence From Nonparametric Bounds
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Published: 01 April 2025
Fig. 4 MTS+MTR+MIV bounds on the effects of completing secondary schooling (panel a) and increasing schooling from secondary to tertiary schooling (panel b) on cognition at older ages. The y -axis indicates the size of the effects relative to the corresponding SD for the control group of high
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The socioeconomic costs of teenage childbearing: Evidence and interpretation
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 281–290.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Arline T. Geronimus; Sanders Korenman 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1993 1993 Adolescent Mother Teen Birth High School Completion Teenage Childbearing Early Childbearing References Abrahamse Allan F. , Morrison Peter A. , & Waite Linda...
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The educational attainment of young women: Role model effects of female high school faculty
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 185–194.
Published: 01 May 1999
..., Parental Practices and High School Completion . American Sociological Review , 56 , 309 – 20 . 10.2307/2096106 Behrman , J.R , Kletzer , L.G. , McPherson , M.S. , & Shapiro , M.O. ( 1992 ). The College Investment Decision: Direct and Indirect of Family Background on Choice...
View articletitled, The educational attainment of young women: Role model effects of female <span class="search-highlight">high</span> <span class="search-highlight">school</span> faculty
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Do children from welfare families obtain less education?
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Demography (2003) 40 (1): 151–170.
Published: 01 February 2003
... and Circumstances Influencing High School Completion . Demography , 28 , 133 – 57 . 10.2307/2061340 Hill M. ( 1992 ). The Panel Study of Income Dynamics: A User’s Guide . Newbury Park, CA : Sage . Hill M. , & Duncan G.J. ( 1987 ). Parental Family Income and the Socioeconomic...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2265–2289.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., West) and religious affiliation (Protestant, Catholic, other, none), as well as time-invariant controls for age at high school completion, race/ethnicity 6 (Black, White, Hispanic, other), and family structure while growing up (two biological parents, single parent, other). Missing data on control...
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View articletitled, College as a Great Equalizer? Marriage and Assortative Mating Among First- and Continuing-Generation College Students
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The effect of sexual abstinence on females' educational attainment
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 695–715.
Published: 01 November 2009
.../addhealth/design. Haveman R. , Wolfe B. , & Spaulding J. ( 1991 ). Childhood Events and Circumstances Influencing High School Completion . Demography , 28 , 133 – 57 . 10.2307/2061340 Hoffman S.D. ( 1998 ). Teenage Childbearing Is Not so Bad After All...
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