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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1753–1786.
Published: 10 September 2020
... of racial discrimination and opportunity denial generated large inequalities in the resources available to Black and White children; in turn, these inequalities in economic backgrounds have played important roles in reproducing racial inequalities across multiple aspects of social life (Bloome 2014...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1631–1656.
Published: 16 August 2016
... systematically in relation to human intervention. This article highlights opportunities for further development, specifically highlighting the role of stage duration in maintaining social inequalities in cause-specific mortality. 19 7 2016 16 8 2016 © Population Association of America 2016 2016...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 541–569.
Published: 17 March 2017
...-parent homes could also alter the relationships among childhood family structure, intergenerational income mobility, and income inequality. Increased availability of preschool programs, affordable higher education, paid parental leave, and flexible work arrangements could provide opportunities for all...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 985–1005.
Published: 28 April 2017
... opportunities, and they show where in this process inequality is generated and where it is not. 28 3 2017 28 4 2017 © Population Association of America 2017 2017 Economic homogamy Assortative mating Division of paid labor Inequality Life course Abundant research has shown...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1033–1068.
Published: 27 March 2018
... here raise concerns about the distribution of educational opportunity among today’s children who grow up in a context of particularly extreme wealth inequality. Fourth, with increasing costs of attendance come increasing costs of failure. The prospect of leaving college with student debt but without...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1693–1721.
Published: 06 August 2019
... attainment. These findings provide important evidence that upstream approaches may disrupt persistent educational inequalities in health behaviors. In doing so, they provide opportunities to intervene on behaviors in early adulthood that contribute to disparities in morbidity and mortality later in the life...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1635–1664.
Published: 10 September 2019
.... This article systematically documents inequalities in financial and social resources that may be critical to educational success. For as long as public schools have existed in the United States, the social composition of educational contexts has been considered as a factor in children’s opportunities...
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 935–961.
Published: 01 November 2010
...). Yet, little is known about whether equality within the public sphere itself might compensate or overcome pri- vate inequalities, providing mechanisms and opportunities for migration that are accessible for women as well as men. Gender and Migration in the Albanian Context Three stages of Albania s...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1547–1565.
Published: 03 July 2018
.... , & Wanamaker M. H. ( 2015 ). Up from slavery? Intergenerational mobility in the shadow of Jim Crow (NBER Working Paper No. 23395). Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research . Corak M. ( 2013 ). Income inequality, equality of opportunity, and intergenerational mobility . Journal...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1011–1037.
Published: 01 June 2021
... the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Cross-national comparison Educational inequality Family background Siblings Equality of opportunity is a widely shared ideal in advanced industrialized societies ( Roemer 1998 ). Nevertheless, even in contemporary societies, family...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 111–136.
Published: 01 February 2022
... This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Inequality of opportunity Family structure Education Gender Social stratification Families in the United States have changed profoundly over the last decades. The percentage of children...
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Demography (2005) 42 (2): 275–299.
Published: 01 May 2005
... reforms often brought not only new economic opportunities but also new uncertainties and height- ened opportunity costs for educating children. The implications of reforms for educa- tional costs suggest a slightly different scenario for trends in gender inequality than do those that are offered by either...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 469–492.
Published: 01 August 2009
...: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States Since 1945 . New York : Edward Elgar Publishing . Dobbin F. , Sutton J. , Meyer J. , & Scott R. ( 1993 ). Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets . American Journal of Sociology , 99 , 396...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 337–358.
Published: 19 January 2012
... ). Legacies of race: Identities, attitudes, and politics in Brazil . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Barros R. , & Lam D. ( 1996 ). Income and educational inequality and children’s schooling attainment . In N. Birdsall , & R. Sabot (Eds.), Opportunity...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 645–663.
Published: 05 March 2019
... thus provides an opportunity to generate evidence on a unique question—How do population health and health inequality change when the prevalence of one of the leading causes of death is cut in half? In this article, we estimate the impact of the decline in homicide mortality on life expectancy at birth...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 675–703.
Published: 26 March 2020
... enrich contemporary accounts of residential sorting, it would not clarify precisely how parents’ skills, household sociodemographics, and opportunity structures interact to reproduce spatial inequality. The traditional neighborhood attainment model obscures these finer-grained dynamics by assuming...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 123–145.
Published: 27 January 2020
... nonsignificant. These findings extend our understanding of the geography of educational opportunity in the United States and reinforce the idea that understanding inequalities in academic achievement requires evidence on what happens inside as well as outside schools. In sum, the literature on neighborhood...
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 365–391.
Published: 21 March 2016
... ). Complex inequality: Gender, class and race in the new economy . New York, NY : Routledge . McClendon , D. , Kuo , JC-L , & Raley , R. K. ( 2014 ). Opportunities to meet: Occupational education and marriage formation in young adulthood . Demography , 51 , 1319 – 1344 . 10.1007...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2161–2186.
Published: 01 December 2022
... universities have diverged in recent years. This latter finding perhaps reflects that with the more rapid increase in the share of female students enrolled in less selective institutions, their opportunities to “marry up” have decreased. Results point to the importance of the growing heterogeneity...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1929–1959.
Published: 20 October 2015
.... Intergenerational educational persistence India The principle of equality of opportunity finds support from most policy-makers and the general public alike. 1 Intergenerational persistence in economic status is an important mechanism in perpetuating inequality of opportunities in a society. For instance...
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