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Estimating the National High School Dropout Rate

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Robert Kominski
Demography (1990) 27 (2): 303–311.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061455
Published: 01 May 1990
...Robert Kominski Abstract Recent interest has focused on the high school dropout rate as one indicator of the national education picture. Empirical estimates of this “rate” vary considerably, because these estimates are poorly defined. This article reviews some of the current measures and presents...
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Maternal age gap between children born to high school dropouts and college graduates grew more than 2.5 years from 1970 to 2010. Average of mother’s age at child’s birth by maternal reports of schooling levels. The sample consists of 50 % to 100 % of all U.S. births from the Natality Detail File

Maternal age gap between children born to high school dropouts and college ...

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in Maternal Age and Child Development > Demography
Published: 01 November 2018
Fig. 1 Maternal age gap between children born to high school dropouts and college graduates grew more than 2.5 years from 1970 to 2010. Average of mother’s age at child’s birth by maternal reports of schooling levels. The sample consists of 50 % to 100 % of all U.S. births from the Natality More
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Parental imprisonment, the prison boom, and the concentration of childhood disadvantage

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Christopher Wildeman
Demography (2009) 46 (2): 265–280.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0052
Published: 01 May 2009
...; and (4) by age 14, 50.5% of black children born in 1990 to high school dropouts had a father imprisoned. These estimates, robustness checks, and extensions to longitudinal data indicate that parental imprisonment has emerged as a novel—and distinctively American—childhood risk that is concentrated among...
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Demographic Cycles, Cohort Size, and Earnings

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Mark C. Berger
Demography (1989) 26 (2): 311–321.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061528
Published: 01 May 1989
... earnings profiles. The net effect is that those who enter the labor market before or after the peak of the demographic cycle start out with lower earnings but experience faster earnings growth. This pattern is uniform across all schooling groups: high school dropouts, high school graduates, those with some...
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Remarriage Patterns of Black and White Women: Reassessing the Role of Educational Attainment

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Pamela J. Smock
Demography (1990) 27 (3): 467–473.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061380
Published: 01 August 1990
..., on the other hand, remarriage and education are positively associated, net of the effects of other variables such as age at separation and the number of children. Very few black high school dropouts in the sample had remarried 10 years after separation. The results suggest that for blacks, those with the worst...
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Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender 1970–2009: Adjusting for the Impact of Changes in the Occupational Coding System

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Francine D. Blau, Peter Brummund, Albert Yung-Hsu Liu
Demography (2013) 50 (2): 471–492.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0151-7
Published: 02 October 2012
... in segregation were correlated with education, with the largest decrease among college graduates and very little change in segregation among high school dropouts. 27 8 2012 2 10 2012 © Population Association of America 2012 2012 Occupational segregation Gender Discrimination...
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Making it in America: High school completion by immigrant and native youth

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Krista M. Perreira, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Dohoon Lee
Demography (2006) 43 (3): 511–536.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2006.0026
Published: 01 August 2006
... From Birth to College (pp. 231 – 59 ). New York : Russell Sage Foundation . Driscoll , A.K. ( 1999 ). Risk of High School Dropout Among Immigrant and Native Hispanic Youth . International Migration Review , 33 , 857 – 75 . 10.2307/2547355 Feliciano , C. ( 2001...
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Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages? Causal Evidence From Nonparametric Bounds

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Vikesh Amin, Jere R. Behrman, Jason M. Fletcher, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes ...
Demography (2025) 62 (2): 515–541.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11865131
Published: 01 April 2025
... distribution (e.g., going from being a high school dropout to a high school graduate or from being a high school graduate to a college graduate). Obtaining credentials (a high school diploma or a college degree) might have important effects on cognition because credentials likely have large effects on midlife...
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Plots showing the range of effects of increasing schooling from (a) high school dropout to high school graduate and (b) high school graduate to college graduate on other cognition domains. The bands indicate the estimated bounds, the large dots represent the corresponding OLS estimates, and the shaded boxes represent the 95% confidence intervals on the parameter of interest.

MTS+MTR+MIV bounds on the effects of completing secondary schooling (panel ...

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in Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages? Causal Evidence From Nonparametric Bounds > Demography
Published: 01 April 2025
school dropouts (panel a) or high school graduates (panel b). The bands indicate the estimated bounds, and the large dots represent the corresponding OLS estimate. The shaded boxes represent the 95% confidence intervals (CI) on the parameter of interest obtained using the Chernozhukov et al. (2013 More
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Erratum to: Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender 1970–2009: Adjusting for the Impact of Changes in the Occupational Coding System

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Francine D. Blau, Peter Brummund, Albert Yung-Hsu Liu
Demography (2013) 50 (2): 493–494.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-013-0198-0
Published: 26 February 2013
..., with college-educated women less segregated than high school graduates and high school dropouts, and those with a college degree less segregated than those with less education.” Two pages after the table, in the first full paragraph starting on line 7, the corrected sentence should read: “Between 1970...
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Urban labor markets and individual transitions out of poverty

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John Iceland
Demography (1997) 34 (3): 429–441.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3038295
Published: 01 August 1997
... and illustrates racial divisions that continue to pervade the labor market. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1997 1997 High School Dropout Economic Restructuring Wholesale Trade Skill Mismatch Urban Labor Market References Allison , P.D. ( 1982 ). “Discrete-Time...
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Early work experience of graduates and dropouts

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Beverly Duncan
Demography (1967) 4 (1): 19–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060349
Published: 01 March 1967
...Beverly Duncan Summary For the past seven years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported on the differential work-force status of recent high school graduates and dropouts. Their definition of graduate and dropout populations and a failure to distinguish inter-cohort differences from intra...
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Economic mobility of young workers in the 1970s and 1980s

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Greg J. Duncan, Johanne Boisjoly, Timothy Smeeding
Demography (1996) 33 (4): 497–509.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061783
Published: 01 November 1996
... of the Current Population Survey. Gott- schalk and Moffitt (1992) pointed out that "the NLSY shows no upward trend in dispersion among high school graduates while the CPS does, and the NLSY shows a decline in the high-school-graduate/high-school dropout earnings and wage differential while the CPS shows...
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Male nonworkers: Who are they and who supports them?

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Jay Stewart
Demography (2006) 43 (3): 537–552.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2006.0028
Published: 01 August 2006
... High School Dropout Retirement Plan Social Security Disability Insurance Adult Family Member References Autor , D. , &amp; Duggan , M. ( 2003 ). The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment . Quarterly Journal of Economics , 118 , 157 – 205 . 10.1162...
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Childhood Income Volatility and Adult Outcomes

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Bradley L. Hardy
Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1641–1665.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0329-2
Published: 04 October 2014
... (Gouskova et al. 2010b ; Grawe 2006 ; Lee and Solon 2009 ; Mazumder 2005 ; Solon 1992 ) estimated with controls for income volatility during childhood years 0–16 in generation g – 1. Non-income outcomes ( O ig ) for high school dropout and postsecondary educational attainment are tested in Eq. ( 9...
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Risk preferences and the timing of marriage and childbearing

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Lucie Schmidt
Demography (2008) 45 (2): 439–460.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0005
Published: 01 May 2008
.... Table 2. Means of Sample Characteristics, by Risk Tolerance (RT) and Educational Attainment Full High School High School College Sample Dropouts Graduates Graduates Lowest Other Lowest Other Lowest Other Lowest Other Level of Levels of Level of Levels of Level of Levels of Level of Levels of Variable RT...
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The academic trajectories of immigrant youths: Analysis within and across cohorts

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Jennifer E. Glick, Michael J. White
Demography (2003) 40 (4): 759–783.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2003.0034
Published: 01 November 2003
... of High School Dropout Among Immigrant and Native Hispanic Youth . International Migration Review , 33 , 857 – 75 . 10.2307/2547355 Duran B.J. , &amp; Weffer R.E. ( 1992 ). Immigrants’ Aspirations, High School Process and Academic Outcomes . American Educational Research Journal...
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Cohabiting and marriage during young men’s career-development process

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Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer
Demography (2003) 40 (1): 127–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2003.0006
Published: 01 February 2003
... the noncohabiting or cohabiting state, and this was particularly true for blacks. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2003 2003 High School Graduate High School Dropout Career Maturity Marriage Formation Marital Union References Becker G.S. ( 1981 ). A Treatise...
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Does Black Socioeconomic Mobility Explain Recent Progress Toward Black-White Residential Integration?

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Robert L. Wagmiller, Jr., Elizabeth Gage-Bouchard, Amelia Karraker
Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1251–1275.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0593-z
Published: 10 July 2017
... segregation of black high school dropouts was responsible for a 1.96-point reduction in dissimilarity (–21 %) and 0.84-point decline in isolation (–16 %). Overall, approximately one-quarter (2.12 points) of the decrease in dissimilarity and nearly 60 % (3.15 points) of the decline in residential isolation...
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The Location of Displaced New Orleans Residents in the Year After Hurricane Katrina

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Narayan Sastry, Jesse Gregory
Demography (2014) 51 (3): 753–775.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0284-y
Published: 06 March 2014
... (post-Katrina) Variable 2004–2005 ACS (%) 2005–2006 ACS (%) Race  Black 62.7 (1.5) 61.6 (1.5)  Nonblack 37.3 (1.5) 38.4 (1.5) Education  High school dropout 17.5 (1.0) 17.2 (1.0)  High school 29.8 (1.3) 29.1 (1.2)  Some college 22.2 (1.0) 22.6 (1.1...
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