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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 543–567.
Published: 24 March 2015
... and child has important repercussions for the future of social stratification in the United States. We find that the educational transmission process between parent and child is much weaker in immigrant families than in native families and, among immigrants, differs significantly across national origins. We...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1825–1851.
Published: 15 October 2015
... . Economic Development and Cultural Change , 6 , 311 – 357 . 10.1086/662575 . Applied Research Center . ( 2011 ). Shattered families: The perilous intersection of immigration enforcement and the child welfare system . Retrieved from https://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/shattered-families?arc...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 649–670.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Jennifer Van Hook; Susan L. Brown; Maxwell Ndigume Kwenda Abstract Poverty levels among all children in the United States have tended to fluctuate in the past 30 years. However, among the children of immigrants, child poverty increased steadily and rapidly from about 12% in 1970 to 33% in the late...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2139–2167.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Brian C. Thiede; Matthew M. Brooks; Leif Jensen Abstract Recent cohorts of U.S. children increasingly consist of immigrants or the immediate descendants of immigrants, a demographic shift that has been implicated in high rates of child poverty. Analyzing data from the 2014–2018 Current Population...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 201–229.
Published: 04 January 2017
... distant and economically less-developed origin regions than among children originating from developed countries. The age-at-arrival effects vary less by parental education and child gender. On the whole, the findings indicate that childhood immigration after an early-life formative period tends...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 437–460.
Published: 14 April 2011
...Kevin J. A. Thomas Abstract This study examines how familial contexts affect poverty disparities between the children of immigrant and U.S.-born blacks, and among black and nonblack children of immigrants. Despite lower gross child poverty rates in immigrant than in U.S.-born black families...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 219–245.
Published: 01 February 2021
... class status/skill set of immigrants ( Feliciano and Lanuza 2017 ; Ichou 2014 ; Portes and Fernández-Kelly 2008 ), we outline the following hypotheses: Hypothesis 2A: We expect that immigrant parents will seek to promote their child's occupational attainment through educational investments...
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 885–905.
Published: 01 November 2008
... in the prenatal health of their sons and daughters when the sex of the child is known in advance? We pay special attention to prenatal health behaviors, which can be viewed as investment decisions, of first-generation immigrant parents from India and China, two countries with demonstrated son preference...
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Published: 04 January 2017
immigrants by age at arrival for the full sample and the sibling sample. Cross-sectional OLS models control for country-of-origin dummy indicators, parental education, child gender, whether the child was the firstborn child of his or her mother, and birth cohort. Sibling fixed-effects models control
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1295–1320.
Published: 26 June 2015
...Elizabeth H. Baker; Michael S. Rendall; Margaret M. Weden Abstract According to the “immigrant epidemiological paradox,” immigrants and their children enjoy health advantages over their U.S.-born peers—advantages that diminish with greater acculturation. We investigated child obesity...
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Published: 04 January 2017
by the horizontal solid bar at 0) and childhood immigrants by age at arrival for the sibling sample. Baseline sibling fixed-effects models control for family fixed effects on the mother’s ID, child gender, whether the child was the firstborn child of his or her mother, and birth cohort. Sibling fixed-effects models
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in The Fertility of Immigrants From Low-Fertility Settings: Adaptation in the Quantum and Tempo of Childbearing?
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Published: 01 December 2021
Fig. 1 A comparison of completed fertility and age at first birth for adult immigrants and child immigrants from countries with lower fertility than Sweden. Results are for the completed childbearing and age at first birth in 2017 of women who were born between 1940 and 1976 (i.e., aged 40–76
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Published: 25 August 2015
Fig. 4 Visa types by country of origin at time of entry as legal permanent residents in United States, 1982–2011. Family visas include all family-related visas (spouse, parent, sibling or child). Employment visas include all employment-based visas and diversity visas. Sources: U.S. Department
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Published: 25 August 2015
Fig. 3 Visa types of African-origin migrants at time of entry as legal permanent residents in United States, 1982–2011. Family visas include all family-related visas (spouse, parent, sibling or child). Employment visas include all employment-based visas and diversity visas. Sources: U.S
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1031–1058.
Published: 01 August 2023
... ). Further, child poverty rates are high among many immigrant minorities ( Galloway et al. 2015 ). Children of immigrants from Pakistan, the Middle East, North Africa, and Latin America typically experience disadvantages in school grades and early school-leaving, and children from many East Asian backgrounds...
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in The Fertility of Immigrants From Low-Fertility Settings: Adaptation in the Quantum and Tempo of Childbearing?
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Published: 01 December 2021
Fig. 2 Completed fertility by immigrant background (second generation or age at arrival for child migrants), relative to ancestral Swedes. Models control for birth cohort. Dashed red lines indicate that completed fertility was 1.99 for equivalent ancestral Swedes. Source: Authors' analysis based
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in The Fertility of Immigrants From Low-Fertility Settings: Adaptation in the Quantum and Tempo of Childbearing?
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Published: 01 December 2021
Fig. 3 Age at first birth by immigrant background (second generation or age at arrival for child migrants), relative to ancestral Swedes. Models control for birth cohort. Dashed red lines indicate that age at first birth was 25.9 for equivalent ancestral Swedes. Source: Authors' analysis based
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 759–783.
Published: 01 November 2003
... Population Association of America 2003 2003 Social Capital American Sociological Review Recent Immigrant Immigrant Child Immigrant Youth References Alba R. , & Nee V. ( 1997 ). Rethinking Assimilation for a New Era of Immigration . International Migration Review , 31...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 513–534.
Published: 01 August 2009
... Association of America 2009 2009 Household Head Immigrant Family Immigrant Child Immigrant Parent Black Immigrant References Alderman H. , Orazem P.F. , & Paterno E.M. ( 2001 ). School Quality, School Cost, and the Public/Private School Choices of Low Income Households...
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 639–654.
Published: 01 November 2002
... Immigrant Child Immigrant Student School Desegregation References Alba R. , & Nee V. ( 1999 ). Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration . In C. Hirschman , J. DeWind , & P. Kasinitz (Eds.), The Handbook of International Migration...
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