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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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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...
View articletitled, U.S. Immigrants’ labor market adjustment: Additional <span class="search-highlight">Human</span> <span class="search-highlight">capital</span> investment and Earnings Growth
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Postimmigration investments in Education: a Study of Immigrants in the Netherlands
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 883–898.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Frank Van Tubergen; Herman van De Werfhorst Abstract We use a unique data source to examine postimmigration investments in education among four immigrant groups in the Netherlands. We derive hypotheses from the Immigrant Human Capital Investment model (IHCI), which argues that immigrants...
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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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Explaining the Gender Wealth Gap
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1155–1176.
Published: 21 December 2012
... in explaining gender wealth gaps between these groups explaining about one-third to one-half of the gap, followed by the human-capital explanation. In other words, a lifetime of lower earnings for women translates into greatly reduced wealth accumulation. After controlling for the full model, we find...
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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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A model of destination-language acquisition: Application to male immigrants in Canada
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 391–409.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Barry R. Chiswick; Paul W. Miller Abstract We develop a model using human capital theory and an immigrant adjustment process to generate hypotheses on the acquisition of destination-language skills among immigrants. The model is tested for adult male immigrants in the 1991 Census of Canada. Use...
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 99–122.
Published: 01 February 2023
... with their predecessors, but there was little evidence of meaningful intercohort differences in volunteering rates for participants in their late 60s and older. The adjusted model accounted for the human, sociocultural, and health capital resources for volunteering participation that were unevenly distributed across...
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View articletitled, Age and Cohort Trends in Formal Volunteering and Informal Helping in Later Life: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study
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U.S. Mothers’ Long-Term Employment Patterns
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 285–320.
Published: 14 January 2019
... between the nonemployment and reentry groups, which have different employment experiences and different prematernity characteristics. Next, we describe how mothers’ human capital, attitudes and cultural models, family experiences, and race/ethnicity are associated with the employment patterns they follow...
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Nativity Concentration and Internal Migration among the Foreign-Born
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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 509–524.
Published: 01 August 1994
... less likely than natives to be self-employed. Multinomial logistic regression allows us to model the effects of human capital, economic context, and nativity concentration on intra- and interstate migration, relative to no migration, for foreign-born heads of household. The first model in Table 3...
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The effect of the sex composition of jobs on starting wages in an organization: Findings from the NLSY
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 511–521.
Published: 01 November 1996
...Paula England; Lori L. Reid; Barbara Stanek Kilbourne Abstract We show that individuals in a job with a higher percentage of females earn lower starting wages with an employing organization. This holds true with controls for individuals’ human capital, job demands for skill or difficult working...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1093–1115.
Published: 01 June 2022
... in industrial society before the great expansion of higher education and the emergence of the service economy. In the Becker and Tomes model ( 1986 ), socioeconomic status is determined by inherited and transmitted abilities (genes and “family culture”), as well as investments in human capital...
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View articletitled, The Effect of Parental Loss on Social Mobility in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1667–1698.
Published: 01 October 2024
... changes in children's outcomes independent of changes in fertility and outside traditional models of fertility and human capital. In this study, we use baseline and follow-up data on children to present findings related to the intervention's impact on the subsample of children who were alive...
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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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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
.... An empirically testable implication of these two models is illustrated in Figure 1, which represents the relationship for individuals between human capital and background characteristics (as an input) and community resources (as an output). As these figures show, we draw conclusions about processes (i.e...
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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Gender differences in the link between childhood socioeconomic conditions and heart attack risk in adulthood
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Demography (2007) 44 (1): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2007
... environments affect future disease risk. By using methods that model both latent and path-specific influences, we identify heterogeneity in early life conditions and human, social, and health capital in adulthood that contribute to diverse heart attack risk trajectories between and among men and women...
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Migration and spatial assimilation among u.s. latinos: Classical versus segmented trajectories
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Demography (2005) 42 (3): 497–521.
Published: 01 August 2005
... of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban ethnicity. In several respects, our findings confirm the central tenets of spatial assimilation theory: Latino residential mobility into neighborhoods that are inhabited by greater percentages of non-Hispanic whites (i.e., Anglos) increases with human and financial capital...
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Parental Spending on School-Age Children: Structural Stratification and Parental Expectation
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 835–860.
Published: 02 May 2015
... children. This article fills this gap in the literature by developing a conceptual framework that draws from stratification theory, human capital theory, and the child development perspective, and applying quantile regression modeling to the unique child-level expenditure data from the PSID and its Child...
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Age at Arrival and Life Chances Among Childhood Immigrants
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 201–229.
Published: 04 January 2017
... to constrain later human capital formation and economic opportunities over the life course. 6 For the calculation of stable employment, the basic amount is doubled and would equal approximately U.S. $18,200. 7 This information is available only from 2003. From this year onward, I use information...
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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
... 1991 Educational Attainment Family Stress Parental Separation High School Completion Human Capital Model References Altonji, J. 1988. “The Effects of Family Background, School Characteristics, High School Curriculum on Education, Labor Market Outcomes, and the Return to Education...
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A cross-national comparison of the impact of family migration on women’s employment status
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 201–213.
Published: 01 May 2001
... literature, much of the work in this subfield also has been grounded in the human capital model. Thus it is usually assumed that family moves are undertaken to maxi- mize economic potential, and consequently often fulfill the career aspirations of the (male) main breadwinner at the A expense of the (female...
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