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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 545–561.
Published: 01 November 1989
...Sonalde Desai; P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale; Robert T. Michael Abstract This article uses the 1986 Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set to investigate the impact of maternal employment on children's intellectual ability, as measured at the age of 4 by using the Peabody...
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S65–S85.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... , Forsén T. , Henriksson M. , Kajantie E. , Heinonen K. , Pesonen A. , Leskinen J.T. , Laaksonen I. , Osmond C. , Barker D.J.P. , & Eriksson J.G. ( 2009 ). Growth Trajectories and Intellectual Abilities in Young Adulthood, The Helsinki Birth Cohort Study...
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 401–414.
Published: 01 November 2000
... Employment on the Intellectual Ability of 4-Year-Old Children . Demography , 26 , 545 – 61 . 10.2307/2061257 Desai , S. , & Jain , D. ( 1994 ). Maternal Employment and Changes in Family Dynamics: The Social Context of Women’s Work in Rural South India . Population and Development...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 385–404.
Published: 01 August 1993
... of Maternal Employment on the Intellectual Ability of 4-Year Old Children . Demography , 26 ( 4 ), 545 – 62 . 10.2307/2061257 Foster Lawrence ( 1982 ). Between Heaven and Earth . Sunstone , 7 , 7 – 15 . Glenn Norval D. ( 1982 ). Interreligious Marriage in the United States...
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 431–447.
Published: 01 November 2000
... in the sample, such as mother s age at child s birth, race, POVERTY AND CHILDREN S INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT 435 mother s educational attainment, and mother s cognitive ability. The overrepresentation of disadvantaged groups is not necessarily a drawback: The 1979 NLSY survey deliber- ately oversampled African...
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 281–301.
Published: 01 May 2009
.... Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne. Benbow C.P. ( 1986 ). Physiological Correlates of Extreme Intellectual Precocity . Neuropsychologia , 24 , 719 – 25 . 10.1016/0028-3932(86)90011-4 Benbow C.P. ( 1988 ). Sex Differences in Mathematical Reasoning Ability...
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Demography (1991) 28 (1): 119–131.
Published: 01 February 1991
... shows an inverse relationship between academic aptitude and family size (Blake 1989; Polit 1982; Terhune 1974). Although data on aptitude are not available from the TDHS, differences in intellectual ability are unlikely to account for the major share of the inverse association between family size...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 459–484.
Published: 13 February 2017
...Kieron J. Barclay; Martin Kolk Abstract We examine the relationship between birth-to-birth intervals and a variety of mid- and long-term cognitive and socioeconomic outcomes, including high school GPA, cognitive ability, educational attainment, earnings, unemployment status, and receiving...
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 421–442.
Published: 01 November 1981
...: A Critical Review . Sociometry , 35 , 411 – 439 . 10.2307/2786503 Belmont Lillian ( 1977 ). Birth Order, Intellectual Competence, and Psychiatric Status . Journal of Individual Psychology , 33 , 97 – 104 . Belmont Lillian , & Marolla Francis A. ( 1973 ). Birth Order...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 619–643.
Published: 28 February 2014
... ; Salthouse 2010 ) unless cognitive performance among later-born cohorts increases sufficiently to offset the negative effects of population aging on cognitive abilities (Nisbett et al. 2012 ). Finding ways to improve cognition for new generations of seniors is of central importance to aging economies...
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2187–2208.
Published: 20 June 2013
... and investments. For example, if one child is inherently more interested in intellectual activities than his or her sibling, it is likely the child will develop a superior cognitive ability as well as receive greater parental (demand-led) investments. The strong likelihood of endogeneity bias motivates our...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 571–602.
Published: 17 March 2017
... of such skills as measured by DOT and O*NET classification systems, respectively. Taken together with the aforementioned results, we can safely say that these immigrants indeed developed a bundle of skills tilted in favor of physical rather than intellectual and socioemotional skills. In rather simple terms...
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 551–577.
Published: 01 November 1993
... of Maternal Employment on the Intellectual Ability of 4-Year-Old Children." Demography 26:545--61. Dixon-Mueller, Ruth. 1993. Population Policy and Women's Rights: Transforming Reproductive Choice. Westport, CT: Praeger. Dow, Thomas C. Jr. 1967. "Attitudes towards Family Size and Family Planning in Nairobi...
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1275–1298.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Geoffrey T. Wodtke; Sagi Ramaj; Jared Schachner Abstract Although socioeconomic disparities in cognitive ability emerge early in the life course, most research on the consequences of living in a disadvantaged neighborhood has focused on school-age children or adolescents. In this study, we outline...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1501–1525.
Published: 06 June 2014
.... It is reasonable to hypothesize that prenatal exposures to natural disasters might result in similar long-run effects. Indeed, the researchers in Project Ice Storm studying women exposed to the 1998 ice storm in Canada found that those children had lower levels of intellectual ability and language skill at ages 2...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 401–432.
Published: 07 March 2015
... of maternal employment on the intellectual ability of 4-year-old children . Demography , 26 , 545 – 561 . 10.2307/2061257 Duncan , G. J. , & Hoffman , S. D. ( 1985 ). A reconsideration of the economic consequences of marital dissolution . Demography , 22 , 485 – 497 . 10.2307...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 797–827.
Published: 01 June 2024
... , 175 – 195 . Jiang Q. , Feldman M. W. , & Li S. ( 2014 ). Marriage squeeze, never-married proportion, and mean age at first marriage in China . Population Research and Policy Review , 33 , 189 – 204 . Jones H. E. ( 1929 ). Homogamy in intellectual abilities...
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Demography (1972) 9 (4): 521–529.
Published: 01 November 1972
... Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area Footnotes 1 Morton , & White , Lucia ( 1962 ). The Intellectual and the City . Cambridge : MIT Press . 2 Glazer , Nathan ( 1970 ). Trouble (pp. 3 – 4 ). New York : Quadrangle . 3 Death and Life of Great American Cities...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 915–930.
Published: 06 July 2011
... of differential access to education during childhood for gender disparities in later-life cognition. The strong association between education and cognition at older ages may stem from a variety of sources, including ability-based selection into education, lasting acquired knowledge during the education...
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Demography (1982) 19 (4): 429–438.
Published: 01 November 1982
... when they put it somewhere between ocean mining and acid rain, but they are accurate as to direction. As they observe: "Few public issues are as dead as is last year's crisis. From a high point some 10 to 15 years ago, intellectual concern about popula- tion growth waned The massive and continuously...