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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 543–567.
Published: 24 March 2015
...Renee Reichl Luthra; Thomas Soehl Abstract One in five U.S. residents under the age of 18 has at least one foreign-born parent. Given the large proportion of immigrants with very low levels of schooling, the strength of the intergenerational transmission of education between immigrant parent...
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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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in U.S. Occupational Mobility of Children of Immigrants Based on Parents' Origin-Country Occupation
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Published: 01 February 2021
Fig. 1 Intergenerational mobility by immigrant parents' U.S. and origin country occupation. High- and low-skilled refer to premigration occupational status. Occupational rank is based on the 4-point scale, where 1 = labor/service, 2 = trade/craft, 3 = lower white-collar, and 4 = professional
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in U.S. Occupational Mobility of Children of Immigrants Based on Parents' Origin-Country Occupation
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Published: 01 February 2021
Fig. 1 Intergenerational mobility by immigrant parents' U.S. and origin country occupation. High- and low-skilled refer to premigration occupational status. Occupational rank is based on the 4-point scale, where 1 = labor/service, 2 = trade/craft, 3 = lower white-collar, and 4 = professional
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 219–245.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Fig. 1 Intergenerational mobility by immigrant parents' U.S. and origin country occupation. High- and low-skilled refer to premigration occupational status. Occupational rank is based on the 4-point scale, where 1 = labor/service, 2 = trade/craft, 3 = lower white-collar, and 4 = professional...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1825–1851.
Published: 15 October 2015
... . Washington, DC : American Immigration Council . Retrieved from http://immigrationimpact.com/2014/06/26/thousands-of-u-s-citizen-children-separated-from-parents-ice-records-show/ Capps , R. , Castañeda , R. M. , Chaudry , A. , & Santos , R. ( 2007 ). Paying the price: The impact...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1453–1461.
Published: 10 June 2019
... of Homeland Security 2016 ). The extent to which the migration of U.S.-born minors reflects the economic motivations of their parents versus the impact of deportation is not known, but it seems clear that the confluence of economic crisis and immigration enforcement drove the migration of U.S.-born minors...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1031–1058.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of immigrant parents, whose parents often have moderate absolute levels of education relative to native-born parents but tend to be positively selected on education relative to nonmigrants in the origin country. Using rich administrative data from Norway, we study the educational careers of immigrant...
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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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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 (2015) 52 (5): 1601–1626.
Published: 10 September 2015
... on racial/ethnic trajectories. Do gendered trajectories between and within groups better capture mobility patterns? Using the 1980 decennial census and the 2003–2007 Current Population Survey (CPS), we observe the socioeconomic status of Latino and Asian immigrant parents and their second-generation...
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in Horizontal Advantage: Choice of Postsecondary Field of Study Among Children of Immigrants
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Published: 01 August 2023
Fig. 2 The relationship between the educational rank in origin country and years of completed education among immigrant parents. Panel a shows a jittered scatterplot of immigrant parents' education as percentile rank position in the country of origin (vertical axis) and years of education
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 477–498.
Published: 10 February 2012
...Kevin J. A. Thomas Abstract This study uses data from the 2000 U.S. census to examine whether the schooling advantage of black immigrants’ children found in previous studies is robust. According to the results, the advantage associated with having migrant parents is not restricted to the children...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 437–460.
Published: 14 April 2011
..., accounting for differences in family structure reveals that child poverty risks among blacks are highest in single-parent black immigrant families. In addition, within two-parent immigrant families, child poverty declines associated with increasing assimilation are greater than the respective declines...
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 369–392.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Julie Park; Dowell Myers Abstract The new second generation of the post-1965 immigration era is observed as children with their parents in 1980 and again as adults 25 years later. Intergenerational mobility is assessed for both men and women in four major racial/ethnic groups, both in regard...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1655–1685.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... It is, however, poorly understood where on the generational health assimilation spectrum children with one immigrant and one native parent (i.e., exogamous families) lie, to what extent family resources explain health assimilation, and whether the process of assimilation varies across health conditions. We seek...
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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 (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 (2015) 52 (4): 1295–1320.
Published: 26 June 2015
... status as immigrants. © Population Association of America 2015 2015 Child obesity Acculturation Hispanic The demographic importance of second-generation immigrant children—that is, children born in the United States to foreign-born parents—has grown sharply and will continue to grow...
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 511–536.
Published: 01 August 2006
.... 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2006 2006 Social Capital Cultural Capital Immigrant Generation Immigrant Youth Native Youth References Aguiano , R. ( 2004 ). Families and Schools: The Effects of Parental Involvement on High School Completion . Journal...
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