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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 (5): 1655–1685.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Silvia Loi; Joonas Pitkänen; Heta Moustgaard; Mikko Myrskylä; Pekka Martikainen Abstract Although the children of first-generation immigrants tend to have better health than the native population, the health advantage of the children of immigrant families deteriorates over generations...
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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 (1986) 23 (3): 291–311.
Published: 01 August 1986
...Guillermina Jasso; Mark R. Rosenzweig Abstract This paper reports estimates of the total numbers of actual legal immigrants to the United States that result from the family reunification provisions of U.S. immigration law. These immigration multipliers are estimated separately for major visa...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 513–534.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Kevin J.A. Thomas Abstract In this study, I examine disparities in schooling progress among children born to immigrant and U.S.-born blacks. I find that in one- and two-parent families, children born to black immigrants are less likely to fall behind in school than those born to U.S.-born blacks...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 485–511.
Published: 26 February 2015
...Lisa Kaida Abstract Despite widespread interest in poverty among recent immigrants and female immigrant employment, research on the link between the two is limited. This study evaluates the effect of recently arrived immigrant women’s employment on the exit from family poverty and considers...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 649–670.
Published: 01 November 2004
... increase in immigrant child poverty can be linked to changing conditions in the U.S. economy that make it more difficult to lift a family out of poverty than 30 years ago. These changes occurred disproportionately among children of parents with lower levels of education, employment, and U.S. experience...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1973–1998.
Published: 15 August 2017
...Zoya Gubernskaya; Zequn Tang Abstract Older immigrants are more likely to share residence with their adult children and other family members than are U.S.-born older adults. Because socioeconomic factors only partially explain these differences and direct measures of cultural preferences are seldom...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1607–1634.
Published: 03 September 2019
..., academic and behavioral skills at the start of the K-12 system (Duncan and Magnuson 2013 ; Magnuson and Waldfogel 2005 ). In fact, children from Mexican-origin, Latino/a, and immigrant families receive comparable or greater returns to exposure to early childhood education with respect to their school...
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 225–249.
Published: 01 May 2007
... with international immigration as an additional factor driving variation across groups. Using 2000 census data from Mexico and the United States, we compare the prevalence and age patterns of various types of extended family and non-kin living arrangements among Mexican-origin immigrants and nonimmigrants on both...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1031–1058.
Published: 01 August 2023
... grades and disadvantaged family backgrounds. However, immigrant parents' positive selectivity provides limited insight into why children of immigrants exhibit high ambitions later in their postsecondary educational careers. These findings document a persistent pattern of horizontal ethnic advantage...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2139–2167.
Published: 01 December 2021
... that poverty rates among Hispanic children are very high, particularly among first-generation children and second-generation children with two foreign-born parents. Low family employment is the most significant risk factor for poverty, but the prevalence of this risk varies little across immigrant generations...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 849–878.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Tate Kihara Abstract The impact of immigrant parents’ premigration family background on their second-generation children residing in destination countries remains underexplored in the literature on historical social mobility. Using multigenerational historical survey records from the Japanese...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 201–229.
Published: 04 January 2017
... socioeconomic outcomes from all fixed family-level conditions and endowments shared by siblings. Results from sibling fixed-effects models reveal a progressively stronger adverse influence of immigration at later stages of childhood on completed education, employment, adult earnings, occupational attainment...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 375–389.
Published: 01 August 2001
... in two subpopulations: single-mother families and elderly units. Major findings are that the effects of social capital differ between immigrant single-mother families and elderly units; the effects of social capital differ between the young-at-arrival elderly and the old-at-arrival elderly...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 949–974.
Published: 30 April 2014
... by a combination of race, ethnicity, and immigration status, rather than a dichotomous white-black or white-nonwhite gap. Third, our empirical strategy based on family-level panel data enables us to explore causal relationships between private transfers and wealth. Our findings highlight important differences...
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2223–2247.
Published: 03 November 2017
... —that is, households where at least one family member is an unauthorized migrant—reaching 16 million. U.S. citizens living in mixed-status households are personally connected to the struggles experienced by their unauthorized family members. For them, immigration policy is likely to shape their current and future...
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 511–536.
Published: 01 August 2006
... and third or higher generations lose ground. Differences in dropout rates by race-ethnicity and immigrant generation are driven by differences in human, cultural, and social capital. Low levels of family human capital, school social capital, and community social capital place the children of immigrants...
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 595–620.
Published: 01 November 2005
.... In the early decades of the twentieth century, immigrants and their children were the majority of the workforce in many of the largest industrial cities; in recent decades, the arrival of immigrants and their families has slowed the demographic and economic decline of some American cities. The presence...
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 111–120.
Published: 01 February 1999
...-, family-, or individual-level units of analysis or presentation. The findings show that nativity differences are statistically significant only at the level of larger units. The results also indicate that if immigrants and natives had identical living arrangements, immigrants’ household-level receipt...