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Does human capital raise earnings for immigrants in the low-skill labor market?
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 619–639.
Published: 01 August 2008
... remains unknown. Demography, Volume 45-Number 3, August 2008: 619 639 619 S DOES HUMAN CAPITAL RAISE EARNINGS FOR IMMIGRANTS IN THE LOW-SKILL LABOR MARKET?* MATTHEW HALL AND GEORGE FARKAS We use monthly Survey of Income and Program Participation data from 1996 1999 and 2001 2003 to estimate...
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Orphanhood and human capital destruction: Is there persistence into adulthood?
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 163–180.
Published: 01 February 2010
... ORPHANHOOD AND HUMAN CAPITAL DESTRUCTION: IS THERE PERSISTENCE INTO ADULTHOOD?* KATHLEEN BEEGLE, JOACHIM DE WEERDT, AND STEFAN DERCON This article presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long run for health and education outcomes in a region of northwestern Tanzania. We study a sample of 718...
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U.S. Immigrants’ labor market adjustment: Additional Human capital investment and Earnings Growth
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 865–881.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., on the order of an average increase in earnings of 12%–13% during the 12-month survey period. Results indicate partial support for Duleep and Regets’ Immigrant Human Capital Investment (IHCI) model, indicating an inverse relationship between initial earnings and earnings growth and showing some evidence...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1667–1698.
Published: 01 October 2024
... and human capital. Our results also suggest that improved access to family planning might have positive downstream effects on child health beyond contraceptive use and fertility outcomes. Although the literature is promising, it is subject to several challenges. First, in studies that have exploited...
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View articletitled, Family Planning and Children's <span class="search-highlight">Human</span> <span class="search-highlight">Capital</span>: Experimental Evidence From Urban Malawi
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Erratum to: Economics of the Family: Marriage, Children and Human Capital
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Demography (1975) 12 (4): 679.
Published: 01 November 1975
... of the Family: Marriage, Children and Human Capital by Theodore W. Schultz (ed reviewed by N. Krishnan Namboodiri, Demography 12,3 (August 1975), pp. 561-569. On page 567, column 2, beginning with line 6 the text should read: While all these are possible, unfortunately the fact remains that the. theory...
View articletitled, Erratum to: Economics of the Family: Marriage, Children and <span class="search-highlight">Human</span> <span class="search-highlight">Capital</span>
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Locational returns to human capital: Minority access to suburban community resources
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 243–268.
Published: 01 May 1993
... differ because they are unrelated to measures of acculturation; for blacks, locational outcomes correspond least to any of these human capital characteristics. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1993 1993 Census Tract Home Ownership Median Household Income Residential...
View articletitled, Locational returns to <span class="search-highlight">human</span> <span class="search-highlight">capital</span>: Minority access to suburban community resources
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The Intergenerational Impact of Terror: Did the 9/11 Tragedy Impact the Initial Human Capital of the Next Generation?
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1459–1481.
Published: 08 June 2020
... birth outcomes, restricted intrauterine growth and shortened gestational length (Aizer et al. 2016 ; de Catanzaro and Macniven 1992 ; Mulder et al. 2002 ; Wadhwa et al. 1993 , 2001 , 2004 ). Further, recent and consistent findings have connected birth outcomes to later-life human capital...
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 489–514.
Published: 01 April 2025
..., such as pension burden. Such expectations are based on a narrow view of the impact of fertility on the economy, focusing on age structure. Dynamic impacts—for instance, the potential for increased human capital for smaller cohorts—are mostly ignored. We use a dynamic longitudinal microsimulation model to explore...
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View articletitled, Declining Fertility, <span class="search-highlight">Human</span> <span class="search-highlight">Capital</span> Investment, and Economic Sustainability
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The New System of Mexican Migration: The Role of Entry Mode–Specific Human and Social Capital
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1071–1092.
Published: 01 June 2022
... work visas, and legal residence visas. The models reveal how the accumulation of entry mode–specific social and human capital powered a system of undocumented migration that emerged between 1965 and 1985, and how that system deteriorated from 1985 to 2000. After 2000, employers took advantage of new...
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View articletitled, The New System of Mexican Migration: The Role of Entry Mode–Specific <span class="search-highlight">Human</span> and Social <span class="search-highlight">Capital</span>
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 299–315.
Published: 04 December 2013
... as the “demographic dividend.” In this article, we reassess the empirical evidence on the associations among economic growth, changes in age structure, labor force participation, and educational attainment. Using a global panel of countries, we find that after the effect of human capital dynamics is controlled...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2063–2082.
Published: 11 November 2019
... ). Simulating family life courses: An application for Italy, Great Britain, and Scandinavia (VID Working Paper 08/2019). Vienna, Austria : Vienna Institute of Demography, Division for Humanities and Social Sciences, Austrian Academy of Sciences . Retrieved from https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites...
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View articletitled, Contribution of the Rise in Cohabiting Parenthood to Family Instability: Cohort Change in Italy, Great Britain, and Scandinavia
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Scenarios of Delayed First Births and Associated Cohort Fertility Levels
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 687–710.
Published: 01 June 2024
... to increase in each country to keep the fertility indicators constant, still considering the underlying partnership dynamics. As Sobotka (2017a :39) noted, the current trend of delayed parenthood “constitutes a unique experience in human history when most of the younger women and men spend their peak...
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Self-assessed Physical and Mental Health and Fertility Expectations of Men and Women Across the Life Course
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 543–569.
Published: 01 April 2025
... ). The theory of planned behaviour . Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes , 50 , 179 – 211 . Alderotti G. , & Trappolini E. ( 2022 ). Health status and fertility intentions among migrants . International Migration , 60 ( 4 ), 164 – 177 . Allison P. D. ( 2009...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 595–619.
Published: 13 March 2019
... . Vienna, Austria : Vienna Institute of Demography/Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/OAW, WU) . Retrieved from fertilitydatasheet.org Steenhof , L. , & Liefbroer , A. C. ( 2008 ). Intergenerational transmission of age at first birth...
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View articletitled, Is the Family Size of Parents and Children Still Related? Revisiting the Cross-Generational Relationship Over the Last Century
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Some macroeconomic aspects of global population aging
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S151–S172.
Published: 01 March 2010
... as the population ages. Population aging and the forces leading to it can produce not only frightening declines in support ratios but also very substantial increases in productivity and per capita income by raising investment in physical and human capital. Longer life, lower fertility, and population aging all...
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Impact of Free/Subsidized Secondary School Education on the Likelihood of Teenage Motherhood
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1401–1421.
Published: 01 August 2021
... implementation. This study reiterates that the teenage period is crucial in terms of developing human capital through formal schooling. In most developing countries, parents often determine and fund human capital, which makes household wealth/income a critical factor in human capital accumulation and its...
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Growing and Learning When Consumption Is Seasonal: Long-Term Evidence From Tanzania
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1091–1118.
Published: 14 May 2018
...Paul Christian; Brian Dillon Abstract This article shows that the seasonality of food consumption during childhood, conditional on average consumption, affects long-run human capital development. We develop a model that distinguishes differences in average consumption levels, seasonal fluctuations...
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The living arrangements of new unmarried mothers
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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 415–433.
Published: 01 August 2002
... by examining a wide diversity of living arrangements for a homogenous sample of recent unwed mothers and by using information on both parents’ demographic and human capital characteristics and the quality of their relationships. We find that about half the new unwed mothers are cohabiting at the time...
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Gender Pay Gap and Employment Sector: Sources of Earnings Disparities in the United States, 1970–2010
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1597–1618.
Published: 23 August 2014
... in the public and private sectors as well as the stagnation of this trend in the new millennium. For this purpose, we delineate temporal changes in the role played by major sources of the gap. Several components are identified: the portion of the gap attributed to gender differences in human-capital resources...
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Africans in the American Labor Market
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1513–1542.
Published: 25 August 2015
..., race, age at arrival in the United States, and human capital. For example, controlling a rich set of human capital and demographic characteristics, some migrants—such as those from South Africa/Zimbabwe and Cape Verde, who typically enter on employment visas—earn substantial premiums relative to other...
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